Nature's Cure Two Part Acne Treatment System For Males 1

Ok, so for a little back story - I have had acne for about 15 years - started in high school, and I am 30 now - I have come to terms with the fact that I will just have oily skin until I'm 100. Fine. At least I look kind of young still.The down side is acne - horrible in high school - still not great since - EVERY product, cure, herb, cream, pill, diet regimen, EVERY idea for curing acne pretty much on the planet earth, I have tried - hundreds, thousands of dollars....and no dice - everything works ok for a couple weeks, and then right back to baseline - infuriating doesn't begin to describe it, but it's more a resigned, depressed kind of fury at this point, after so much time.THEN I found nature's cure a couple of years ago - I will agree with people that say it's kind of gimmicky, or "kind of" the same thing as other benzoil peroxide creams, and I will ALSO agree that the pills are kind of optional/ambiguously effective.HOWEVER, the cream is the ONLY proper mixture of BOTH benzoil peroxide to dry the skin and THEN herbal moisturizers to keep the skin from needing to crank out more oil that I've ever found. Every other benzoil peroxide cream dries the hell out of my skin, and by the end of the day I'm way MORE oily because my face is trying to compensate - I cannot use salicylic acid, as it makes me break out to an extreme, even horrifying degree.Whatever the mixture in the nature's cure cream, it is the ONLY cream I've found in 15 years, of thousands of products, that finds the proper benzoil peroxide/natural moisturizer mix for a topicalI have coupled this with natural tea-tree oil soap, Dr. Bronner's, as my face wash, and for the first time in the last half of my life, my skin looks what I would call "pretty ok" ....I hope nature's cure never changes their formula, and is around for at least a few more decades, because I am a loyal fan at this point...PS No, no one paid me to review this positively - I just with I could have the money back for all the other bajillion crappy ineffective things I've tried....

I was looking for something to help my 15 year old son with his acne and read the reviews on this product. Knowing that hormones and genetic makeup have a lot to do with persistent skin problems, it only made sense to use a product that worked on both the inside (where they start) and the outside. The ingredients in the product were all perfectly harmless and the reviews were positive, but I also know that if something sounds too good to be true-it often isn't true. But the price was minimal and worth the risk.We marked my son's "start date" on the calendar and tomorrow it will be two full weeks since that day. He and I both are totally AMAZED.BEFORE Nature's Cure(NC):no matter what we tried topically, his skin was fairly "bumpy" even where no pimples had erupted, he would get 4 or 5 new ones a day, and at any given time he'd have 4 or 5 previous ones that he was trying to heal/dry out/deal with too.AFTER NC:The first thing we both noticed was that the rate of new ones dropped drastically, I'd say about an 80% drop. The second thing we noticed was that the ones he was getting were FAR less severe and were healing much faster. After the first couple of days watching him (just in case he had any negative side effects from the tablets, which he did not)I forgot all about it. A couple of days ago he was talking to me face to face when I suddenly realized how GREAT his skin looked! My eyes widened and he stopped in the middle of a sentence and asked "What?" I grinned and said "Can I touch your face?" He grinned and said "Yeah! It's cool huh?" and I couldn't believe it! The "bumps" on the surface were totally gone and his skin was so SOFT and healthy looking.Now, he STILL has some pimples, but they are random and small, and it hadn't even been two full weeks before there was a visible difference to others. (He had noticed long before I did because he obsesses about his face every day) And maybe I'm just imagining this part-but I'd SWEAR that the tablets, which are supposed to help counteract the stressful hormones that cause acne, have improved his moodiness! Not a whole lot mind you, and maybe it's just that his self-confidence is improving as his skin does, but he's been more easy going and less snippy at his siblings than usual. Either way I'm SO thankful for this product and my son has already asked me to reorder it so he doesn't run out.VERY impressed, and VERY satisfied.UPDATE- 2/18/2011My son ran out of this and literally pestered me into ordering him some more. It came quickly and he is enjoying the same results as before. He did say that he noticed much better results when he used both products together rather than when he forgot to take the pills but used the cream alone. Not only that, but upon re-reading my first review, I'm seeing the same improvement in his moodiness (when he's using the product)that I noted before. Could be entirely coincidental or self-esteem related-but either way-it's a good thing.

Update after 3 months:I am taking the 3rd pack of the pills, and I have to say that it is helping. My back is almost clear. It is way better than it was before I started. I rarely miss a dose so I am pretty consistent. I've taken Minocycline and Tetracycline before and those pills made me sick to my stomach and very dizzy. Nature's Cure has no side-effects except a little dry skin on my face, which is ok. The doctor said that if Minocycle won't help, we should start Accutane, which is known for very bad side effects. Forget that, I'm continuing Nature's Cure.I just received my second order. I am giving it 4 stars because I'm still waiting to see how much it'll clear up. But I've seen improvements already. My back was pretty bad and now it doesn't break out much. I'm gonna give it 5 stars if it clears even more. I would get a pimple here and there on my face, but I'm not getting as many on my face either now. I didn't use the cream the first time though, but I started using it now on my face.

I have been buying Nature's Cure 2-Part treatments for years, easily 20+ years. It's sad that I have to give a product I've trusted for so long a 1-star review, but I was so irked and dumbfounded when I received my last 2 orders. I placed two orders for the exact same item, 2 days apart...paid MORE on the second order...but received literally half of what used to come in this item. This listing USED to be for their 2 Part Treatment (Oral Tablets + Vanishing Cream), but it seems like they're literally labeling over the packaging and now ONLY including the vanishing cream, while charging more. Insane. Both the tablets and the vanishing cream have worked so well for me all these many years....so it's a huge letdown that the company is trying to get away with this. This product listing should be disabled and a new one created for just the cream if that's all they want to sell now. If you're reading this to know if the cream works, it does...but it's not worth the price they want now...especially since you're not getting the other half of the treatment that used to come with it.

Beware: This pills that come with this product are purely homeopathic. They are NOT medicine. When I read the box and saw this I threw the pills right into the trash. They contain ingredients such as wild licorice, wild rosemary, walnut, coneflower, graphite etc. That being said, the cream does work pretty well for me.If you buy, throw the pills in the trash and just use the cream. You can probably find products that sell just creme for a cheaper price, which is what I am going to do next time.