Available Sizes

3.4 oz / 100 ml

8 oz / 240 ml

Product Information

Organic hydrosols to soothe, plus kosher glycerine, a mild surfactant concentrate with 3% salicylic acid. Preservative free.

We like to follow the use of this cleanser with REVIVE. Everything goes better with REVIVE.

Follow USAGE GUIDE instructions for best results.

Key Benefits

3% salicylic acid

Glycol and oil free

Soft, clean after feel

Acid free (salicylic acid is a phenol)

Preservative free

Targeted Skin Type

Blemish prone skin

Skincare Concerns

Makeup causes blemishes . Heavy makeup causes more frequent blemishes.  Using acid washes to clear these blemishes temporarily is a normal part of skincare these days. Unfortunately the practice often leads to rosacea and worse.

Over frequent use of ANY acid or in this case salicylic (a phenol) is the leading cause of skin inflammation. Which traces back to the original problem of makeup usage.

Daily use of this or any exfoliating product makes zero skin sense. Once per week is A LOT.  A weaker formula, say at 2% or even 1% is not a solution either. We provide a higher concentration of salicylic so you may reduce the frequency of use.

Over frequent exfoliation also will visibly and prematurely age your skin. 3% SALICYLIC CLEANSER is a skincare tool that, like any active product, can lead to skin instability if over frequently (improperly) used. Be wise. Observe and adjust. Your makeup choices need careful evaluation.

Visit our REFERENCE TOPICS to gain an understanding of skincare applications and errors that may be giving you difficulties.

Formulation

A heavy bodied lotion cleanser.

Ingredients:

Organic hydrosols of arnica and cucumber, sodium laurylglucosides, kosher glycerine, salicylic acid, carbomer, sodium benzoate, KOH, 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. Oil free. Glycol free.

Introduction

Here’s how to have very unstable skin: Apply benzoyl peroxide, use 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 will be in serious trouble.

If you regularly apply benzoyl peroxide in combination with any salicylic acid cleanser you have, most likely, inflamed skin from that regimen.

If it works today, it won’t work for long. In fact, it is how to preserve acne not be rid of it. See discussions of these factors in our REFERENCE TOPICS, especially benzoyl peroxide.

If you persist in using makeup and also use salicylic acid to smooth your skin temporarily, then apply it much less frequently. Daily use of any salicylic acid will lead to skin weakness and very easily slide into inflammation. Once per week is more than enough.

SPOT TREATMENT may be a better choice than 3% SALICYLIC CLEANSER if you have only occasional blemishes. SPOT TREATMENT and REVIVE are a great pair. Or, consider CLARIFYING DROPS in combination with REVIVE.

If you have skin that is easily inflamed, we recommend REVIVE to reduce the problem. Often, REVIVE does it all. You do not need an armful of products to have visibly clear and smooth skin. In fact the opposite is true.

If your skin is unstable you must try to subtract topical products. Adding products to clear your skin is like adding gasoline to a fire. You must subtract what is going onto your skin or you will never clear up.

Less is best. Read through the REFERENCE TOPICS.

HOW TO USE:

1. Shake container before use.
2. Wet hands and face and apply cleanser like a lotion. Smooth in.
3. Allow to dwell for one (1) minute.
4. Add warm water to work up a creamy all over lotion feel.
5. Add more warm water to remove and rinse well.
6. Add REVIVE and smooth in (for best results).
7. Rinse well and pat dry.
8. Add REVIVE and
   leave on.

For your skin if these conditions exist:

• blemishes, unstable
• inflammation and breakouts (but avoid if inflammation caused by exfoliating acids)
  
  

Not for your skin if these conditions exist:

Dermatitis

Recommended frequency of use:

ONCE PER WEEK. Observe and adjust. Less frequent application the better. Use REVIVE, RECOVERY CLEANSER and FACE & BODY BAR during the rest of the week. The more cleansers (cleansers that make sense) the better. Variety is the key to stable skin, but only if that variety is mild, mild, mild.

Actives while using 3% SALICYLIC CLEANSER:

ANY (exceptions: 302 DROPS, 302 SERUM, 302 DROPS PLUS, 302 SERUM PLUS). Wait until skin has stabilized and cleared before going to actives.

Something to consider:

Look up CLARIFYING DROPS for 1x-2x per week application. CLARIFYING DROPS has special instructions. Be sure to follow them for excellent results.

Other Leave-ons acceptable:

REVIVE (excellent combination as a leave-on moisturizer)

CALMING MIST

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.