Even though I routinely only get acne on my face and back, I’ve had at least some quantity of acne on almost each area of my skin at 1 time or other in my life and have had to use an acne body wash to tone down any severe break outs.
My feet, legs, and even private parts believe it or not, appears to be the sole places where I have not had to use an acne body wash to control any break outs to date. While there’s a certain relief to that fact, having acne on my scalp, back, buttocks, chest, stomach, and shoulders is not really at all fun. For that simple reason I have done several experiments with one brand of acne body wash or another and combined some products to see if I can’t obtain better results.
Oh, the excitement of an acne body wash definitely knows no bounds. They come in various sizes, shapes, colors, smells, and flavors. Well, O.K, I am not sure about the flavor part, but there definitely is a wide array of acne body washes to make a choice from. The search is simply cut down when you think about the active elements concerned. Your typical acne body wash will use only 1 of 2 different active ingredients; salicylic acid or benzyl peroxide. Everything else in the wash is just for refinement points.
Having used lots of different acne body washes, I always seem to come back to the ones that use salicylic acid. This is kind of counterintuitive, because benzyl peroxide appears to be best with the acne face washes I’ve attempted thus far. I am not really sure why, but salicylic acid just appears better for body acne than the rest, although its only a little effective for facial acne. I like the body wash that ‘Phisoderm’ makes.
So my acne prevention and treatment routine is a benzyl peroxide acne face wash, and a salicylic acid acne body wash. While I use these washes daily, I am able to scale back the acne I might be getting by somewhere around ninety percent, which is absolutely great. There’s still that ten percent or so that gets by, and I will not really be in a position to do much about it. The acne on my back is particularly tough to forestall ; no amount of body wash gets rid of it entirely.
It appears to help a little if I use lotions and other skin creams as well as an acne body wash. I like using ones that contains aloe vera and vitamin E. If I apply lotions like these shortly after using my preferred body wash, it appears to push the overall anti-acne effect much more.