RECOVERY CLEANSER
Unstable skin needs a stabilizing cleanser
and RECOVERY CLEANSER will do that.
(comparable to our previous, "CLINICAL FORMULA" cleansers)
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Available Sizes
3.4 oz / 100 ml
8 oz / 240 ml
32 oz / 960 ml
Product Information
Visible blotches, blemishes, day to day trouble, lots of makeup usage and excess oil production. You do what you have to do and RECOVERY CLEANSER will be there to help stabilize the action.
This is a mild, clinically proven formula for over six years. Stronger cleansing yet as mild as SENSITIVE CLEANSER. If you have problem skin, not merely sensitive and erratic, this is your choice.
Use one day and then alternate the next with REVIVE for best outcome.
We rely on amphoterics and hydrosols to gain effective cleansing with soothing contact in RECOVERY CLEANSER.
Key Benefits
Immediate skin treatment
Effective cleansing
Stabilizing action
Works for any skin type
Preservative free
Targeted Skin Type
Problem skin
Skincare Concerns
Sensitivity to cleansers can occur easily with highly charged acid laced formulas that foam and strip the skin of its own beneficial guardians.
RECOVERY CLEANSER will work to stabilize visibly difficult skin. Quickly.
Visit our REFERENCE TOPICS to gain an understanding of skincare applications and errors that may be giving you difficulties.
Formulation
A light lotion cleanser
Ingredients
Organic green tea, organic hydrosols of arnica, yucca and cucumber, amphoteric 2, squalane, kosher glycerine, cetyl esters, naturally fermented alcohol, cellulose polymer, polyquat 81, guar, herbal extract
Ingredient Call Outs
Free of parabens, formaldehyde, formaldehyde releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates (SLS & SLES), triclocarban, triclosan. Gluten and cruelty free. Acid free. Glycol free.
Introduction
This cleanser will visibly change for the better chronically inflamed acne prone skin.
Skin that is marked by inflammatory acne often suffers further from too many of the wrong products. Benzoyl peroxide, salicylic acid cleansers, alpha-hydroxy acid peels, vitamin A saturation and moisturizers with sodium hyaluronate, add in a prescription anti-biotic and a lot of makeup to conceal the mess and you have what passes for skincare today.
This is not a solution. If it works today, it won’t work for long. In fact, it is how to preserve inflammatory acne not be rid of it. See discussions of these factors in our REFERENCE TOPICS.
If you seriously want to fix what is visibly wrong, start with RECOVERY CLEANSER. Your best outcome will be to alternate this with REVIVE during the week. Alternate days.
You must subtract everything else. Slowly and surely (or as quickly as possible - better) you must subtract what is going onto your skin or you will never clear up.
HOW TO USE:
Shake container well.
Wet hands and apply cleanser like a lotion. Smooth in.
Your skin will feel sticky. That’s good.
Wet hands and apply cleanser again, a smaller amount. This helps to lift ‘the unwanted’ from your skin.
Add warm water to work up a creamy all over lotion feel.
Add more warm water to remove and rinse well.
Done.
No squeaky, dry, taut feel; just soft, mild, natural response.
For your skin if these conditions exist:
Inflammatory acne, unstable
Not for your skin if these conditions exist:
Dermatitis
Recommended frequency of use:
As needed but prefer alternating with REVIVE and FACE & BODY BAR.
Actives while using RECOVERY CLEANSER:
ANY, but wait until skin has stabilized and cleared. Your skin is weak and easily addicted and it will take time to look and feel resilient.
We recommend CLARIFYING DROPS 1x-2x per week as you begin to clear. CLARIFYING DROPS has special instructions. Be sure to follow them for excellent results.
Leave-ons acceptable:
Any of our Moisturizing Mists (CALMING MIST, for example)
Avoid:
Scrubs
Moisturizers
Acid peels
Benzoyl peroxide
This is where most skincare goes wrong. It’s the chemistry at fault. Marketers instruct formulators to make foam. Foam sells. The formulator, who must work his hands in that foam, knows that foam is bad. It dries and defats the skin. Strips it. In a short time the skin is sub-clinically (as in not yet visible) or clinically (as in visible) inflamed.
The wrong cleanser can ruin your skin for everything you put on after that. It can turn the most promising active you have purchased into a time bomb because of a noticeable increase in histamine response. Alarm bells in the skin go off. You then put on an active and may be quickly thrown into inflammation. Over time the skin weakens, at best. You think it is the active. It’s the cleanser.
Cleansers today are stealth skin killers. Day by day. Smell great, too. But you’re buying a problem.
Foam sells. The folks who lament the use of certain anionic surfactants like the arch villain Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS) apparently ignore the real issue. And the real issue? Foam.
To get foam, big thick creamy foam, you must link together various surfactants. Chief among these are betaines. Look on any label proclaiming it is SLS free - you will find betaines. Look on any cleanser label for that matter. Betaines are serious skin irritants, far more so than SLS and they are used to link to primary anionics to form Big Foam. This is often augmented by the use of amides…anyway, the chemistry is involved, but you get the point.
Your goal in cleansing your face is to remove the bad and preserve the good. That cannot be done with long chain highly charged surfactants that make Big Foam. Try asking your dog to eat with a fork.
We have several lotion cleansers and a great FACE & BODY BAR and a cleansing helper of dry minerals. They are all very mild and give you the advantage of washing your skin without also setting up a first rate histamine reaction. No betaines, no amides, only ultra mild amphoterics and cationic surfactants in our lotion cleansers.
Read through each one. You won’t go wrong no matter which you choose - though our ACNE SULFUR CLEANSER is probably not for cool grandmas.
We recommend you have two and three cleanser alternatives. REVIVE is a cleanser and moisturizer especially formulated for unstable skin. It is not in the list here as a cleanser but consider that as your second cleanser. A third cleanser would be FACE & BODY BAR.
If you will rotate through these during the week the results of improved texture, resilience, tone and brightening are unmistakable.
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RECOVERY CLEANSER
Unstable skin needs a stabilizing cleanser and RECOVERY CLEANSER will do that.
(comparable to our previous, "CLINICAL FORMULA" cleansers)
| Image | Name | Price | Buy |
|---|
Available Sizes
3.4 oz / 100 ml
8 oz / 240 ml
32 oz / 960 ml
Product Information
Visible blotches, blemishes, day to day trouble, lots of makeup usage and excess oil production. You do what you have to do and RECOVERY CLEANSER will be there to help stabilize the action.
This is a mild, clinically proven formula for over six years. Stronger cleansing yet as mild as SENSITIVE CLEANSER. If you have problem skin, not merely sensitive and erratic, this is your choice.
Use one day and then alternate the next with REVIVE for best outcome.
We rely on amphoterics and hydrosols to gain effective cleansing with soothing contact in RECOVERY CLEANSER.
Key Benefits
Immediate skin treatment
Effective cleansing
Stabilizing action
Works for any skin type
Preservative free
Targeted Skin Type
Problem skin
Skincare Concerns
Sensitivity to cleansers can occur easily with highly charged acid laced formulas that foam and strip the skin of its own beneficial guardians.
RECOVERY CLEANSER will work to stabilize visibly difficult skin. Quickly.
Visit our REFERENCE TOPICS to gain an understanding of skincare applications and errors that may be giving you difficulties.
Formulation
A light lotion cleanser
Ingredients
Organic green tea, organic hydrosols of arnica, yucca and cucumber, amphoteric 2, squalane, kosher glycerine, cetyl esters, naturally fermented alcohol, cellulose polymer, polyquat 81, guar, herbal extract
Ingredient Call Outs
Free of parabens, formaldehyde, formaldehyde releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates (SLS & SLES), triclocarban, triclosan. Gluten and cruelty free. Acid free. Glycol free.
Introduction
This cleanser will visibly change for the better chronically inflamed acne prone skin.
Skin that is marked by inflammatory acne often suffers further from too many of the wrong products. Benzoyl peroxide, salicylic acid cleansers, alpha-hydroxy acid peels, vitamin A saturation and moisturizers with sodium hyaluronate, add in a prescription anti-biotic and a lot of makeup to conceal the mess and you have what passes for skincare today.
This is not a solution. If it works today, it won’t work for long. In fact, it is how to preserve inflammatory acne not be rid of it. See discussions of these factors in our REFERENCE TOPICS.
If you seriously want to fix what is visibly wrong, start with RECOVERY CLEANSER. Your best outcome will be to alternate this with REVIVE during the week. Alternate days.
You must subtract everything else. Slowly and surely (or as quickly as possible - better) you must subtract what is going onto your skin or you will never clear up.
HOW TO USE:
Shake container well.
Wet hands and apply cleanser like a lotion. Smooth in.
Your skin will feel sticky. That’s good.
Wet hands and apply cleanser again, a smaller amount. This helps to lift ‘the unwanted’ from your skin.
Add warm water to work up a creamy all over lotion feel.
Add more warm water to remove and rinse well.
Done.
No squeaky, dry, taut feel; just soft, mild, natural response.
For your skin if these conditions exist:
Inflammatory acne, unstable
Not for your skin if these conditions exist:
Dermatitis
Recommended frequency of use:
As needed but prefer alternating with REVIVE and FACE & BODY BAR.
Actives while using RECOVERY CLEANSER:
ANY, but wait until skin has stabilized and cleared. Your skin is weak and easily addicted and it will take time to look and feel resilient.
We recommend CLARIFYING DROPS 1x-2x per week as you begin to clear. CLARIFYING DROPS has special instructions. Be sure to follow them for excellent results.
Leave-ons acceptable:
Any of our Moisturizing Mists (CALMING MIST, for example)
Avoid:
Scrubs
Moisturizers
Acid peels
Benzoyl peroxide
This is where most skincare goes wrong. It’s the chemistry at fault. Marketers instruct formulators to make foam. Foam sells. The formulator, who must work his hands in that foam, knows that foam is bad. It dries and defats the skin. Strips it. In a short time the skin is sub-clinically (as in not yet visible) or clinically (as in visible) inflamed.
The wrong cleanser can ruin your skin for everything you put on after that. It can turn the most promising active you have purchased into a time bomb because of a noticeable increase in histamine response. Alarm bells in the skin go off. You then put on an active and may be quickly thrown into inflammation. Over time the skin weakens, at best. You think it is the active. It’s the cleanser.
Cleansers today are stealth skin killers. Day by day. Smell great, too. But you’re buying a problem.
Foam sells. The folks who lament the use of certain anionic surfactants like the arch villain Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS) apparently ignore the real issue. And the real issue? Foam.
To get foam, big thick creamy foam, you must link together various surfactants. Chief among these are betaines. Look on any label proclaiming it is SLS free - you will find betaines. Look on any cleanser label for that matter. Betaines are serious skin irritants, far more so than SLS and they are used to link to primary anionics to form Big Foam. This is often augmented by the use of amides…anyway, the chemistry is involved, but you get the point.
Your goal in cleansing your face is to remove the bad and preserve the good. That cannot be done with long chain highly charged surfactants that make Big Foam. Try asking your dog to eat with a fork.
We have several lotion cleansers and a great FACE & BODY BAR and a cleansing helper of dry minerals. They are all very mild and give you the advantage of washing your skin without also setting up a first rate histamine reaction. No betaines, no amides, only ultra mild amphoterics and cationic surfactants in our lotion cleansers.
Read through each one. You won’t go wrong no matter which you choose - though our ACNE SULFUR CLEANSER is probably not for cool grandmas.
We recommend you have two and three cleanser alternatives. REVIVE is a cleanser and moisturizer especially formulated for unstable skin. It is not in the list here as a cleanser but consider that as your second cleanser. A third cleanser would be FACE & BODY BAR.
If you will rotate through these during the week the results of improved texture, resilience, tone and brightening are unmistakable.
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Descriptions, applications, usage instructions, add to cart
RECOVERY CLEANSER
Unstable skin needs a stabilizing cleanser and RECOVERY CLEANSER will do that.
(comparable to our previous, "CLINICAL FORMULA" cleansers)
| Image | Name | Price | Buy |
|---|
Available Sizes
3.4 oz / 100 ml
8 oz / 240 ml
32 oz / 960 ml
Product Information
Visible blotches, blemishes, day to day trouble, lots of makeup usage and excess oil production. You do what you have to do and RECOVERY CLEANSER will be there to help stabilize the action.
This is a mild, clinically proven formula for over six years. Stronger cleansing yet as mild as SENSITIVE CLEANSER. If you have problem skin, not merely sensitive and erratic, this is your choice.
Use one day and then alternate the next with REVIVE for best outcome.
We rely on amphoterics and hydrosols to gain effective cleansing with soothing contact in RECOVERY CLEANSER.
Key Benefits
Immediate skin treatment
Effective cleansing
Stabilizing action
Works for any skin type
Preservative free
Targeted Skin Type
Problem skin
Skincare Concerns
Sensitivity to cleansers can occur easily with highly charged acid laced formulas that foam and strip the skin of its own beneficial guardians.
RECOVERY CLEANSER will work to stabilize visibly difficult skin. Quickly.
Visit our REFERENCE TOPICS to gain an understanding of skincare applications and errors that may be giving you difficulties.
Formulation
A light lotion cleanser
Ingredients
Organic green tea, organic hydrosols of arnica, yucca and cucumber, amphoteric 2, squalane, kosher glycerine, cetyl esters, naturally fermented alcohol, cellulose polymer, polyquat 81, guar, herbal extract
Ingredient Call Outs
Free of parabens, formaldehyde, formaldehyde releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates (SLS & SLES), triclocarban, triclosan. Gluten and cruelty free. Acid free. Glycol free.
Introduction
This cleanser will visibly change for the better chronically inflamed acne prone skin.
Skin that is marked by inflammatory acne often suffers further from too many of the wrong products. Benzoyl peroxide, salicylic acid cleansers, alpha-hydroxy acid peels, vitamin A saturation and moisturizers with sodium hyaluronate, add in a prescription anti-biotic and a lot of makeup to conceal the mess and you have what passes for skincare today.
This is not a solution. If it works today, it won’t work for long. In fact, it is how to preserve inflammatory acne not be rid of it. See discussions of these factors in our REFERENCE TOPICS.
If you seriously want to fix what is visibly wrong, start with RECOVERY CLEANSER. Your best outcome will be to alternate this with REVIVE during the week. Alternate days.
You must subtract everything else. Slowly and surely (or as quickly as possible - better) you must subtract what is going onto your skin or you will never clear up.
HOW TO USE:
Shake container well.
Wet hands and apply cleanser like a lotion. Smooth in.
Your skin will feel sticky. That’s good.
Wet hands and apply cleanser again, a smaller amount. This helps to lift ‘the unwanted’ from your skin.
Add warm water to work up a creamy all over lotion feel.
Add more warm water to remove and rinse well.
Done.
No squeaky, dry, taut feel; just soft, mild, natural response.
For your skin if these conditions exist:
Inflammatory acne, unstable
Not for your skin if these conditions exist:
Dermatitis
Recommended frequency of use:
As needed but prefer alternating with REVIVE and FACE & BODY BAR.
Actives while using RECOVERY CLEANSER:
ANY, but wait until skin has stabilized and cleared. Your skin is weak and easily addicted and it will take time to look and feel resilient.
We recommend CLARIFYING DROPS 1x-2x per week as you begin to clear. CLARIFYING DROPS has special instructions. Be sure to follow them for excellent results.
Leave-ons acceptable:
Any of our Moisturizing Mists (CALMING MIST, for example)
Avoid:
Scrubs
Moisturizers
Acid peels
Benzoyl peroxide
This is where most skincare goes wrong. It’s the chemistry at fault. Marketers instruct formulators to make foam. Foam sells. The formulator, who must work his hands in that foam, knows that foam is bad. It dries and defats the skin. Strips it. In a short time the skin is sub-clinically (as in not yet visible) or clinically (as in visible) inflamed.
The wrong cleanser can ruin your skin for everything you put on after that. It can turn the most promising active you have purchased into a time bomb because of a noticeable increase in histamine response. Alarm bells in the skin go off. You then put on an active and may be quickly thrown into inflammation. Over time the skin weakens, at best. You think it is the active. It’s the cleanser.
Cleansers today are stealth skin killers. Day by day. Smell great, too. But you’re buying a problem.
Foam sells. The folks who lament the use of certain anionic surfactants like the arch villain Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS) apparently ignore the real issue. And the real issue? Foam.
To get foam, big thick creamy foam, you must link together various surfactants. Chief among these are betaines. Look on any label proclaiming it is SLS free - you will find betaines. Look on any cleanser label for that matter. Betaines are serious skin irritants, far more so than SLS and they are used to link to primary anionics to form Big Foam. This is often augmented by the use of amides…anyway, the chemistry is involved, but you get the point.
Your goal in cleansing your face is to remove the bad and preserve the good. That cannot be done with long chain highly charged surfactants that make Big Foam. Try asking your dog to eat with a fork.
We have several lotion cleansers and a great FACE & BODY BAR and a cleansing helper of dry minerals. They are all very mild and give you the advantage of washing your skin without also setting up a first rate histamine reaction. No betaines, no amides, only ultra mild amphoterics and cationic surfactants in our lotion cleansers.
Read through each one. You won’t go wrong no matter which you choose - though our ACNE SULFUR CLEANSER is probably not for cool grandmas.
We recommend you have two and three cleanser alternatives. REVIVE is a cleanser and moisturizer especially formulated for unstable skin. It is not in the list here as a cleanser but consider that as your second cleanser. A third cleanser would be FACE & BODY BAR.
If you will rotate through these during the week the results of improved texture, resilience, tone and brightening are unmistakable.
Product Finder
Descriptions, applications, usage instructions, add to cart