Grandma's Pure and Natural Acne Treatment Soap Bar - 4oz | Gentle Face Wash for Clear Skin | Perfect for Daily Skincare Routine & Teen Acne Care

This summer, I was on vacation with my family in Austin, Texas, hipster capitol of the world. One morning, I was the last person to get ready in our single bathroom, so my family went for a walk down to the co-op (again, hipster capitol) grocery story down the street. When they returned, my mom threw this little bar of soap at me. She picked it up on a whim. Plenty of things made me want to throw the stuff out immediately: the fact that it has no acne fighting chemicals (I've been battling acne for a decade now. I know how to read ingredient lists by now. The main ingredients are lard and lye.), the fact that it's just a bar of soap, which I assumed would dry my skin out and make my acne worse, and the fact that it has the instructions on the back that warn that "Acne may appear to worsen at first because this special soap is completely cleaning the pores and drawing out the impurities." That last part got me the worst, as it seemed like one of those seaweed wraps or lemon/cayenne pepper cleansing things. I said to myself, "Hey, I'm on vacation. No one I'm worried about impressing is around if my acne gets worse. What's to lose?" Absolutely nothing, as it turned out.I never went through the aforementioned worsening period for my acne. I had long ago learned that switching acne products, even between Proactive and Clean & Clear or prescription topicals, inevitably has a few days of terrible breakouts. I had been using Clean & Clear Advantage at the time. My skin looked better than it had with the Clean & Clear in quite a while after just 24 hours. I've been using this for four months now and still love it. Most other acne products (including Proactive and Clean & Clear) tend to stop working as effectively after this long, so I'm quite impressed.I worried that maybe I was getting false benefits from the bar because of the climate. I was in Austin during a drought (which is still ongoing) and the humidity was around 20%. Compared to the humidity in my hometown in Florida, where getting the humidity below 80% is a cause for celebration, this was a huge worry for me. I noticed no difference upon getting back home, thankfully. I do recommend using a moisturizer with this (personally, I stick to some oil-free stuff).