SULFUR CLEANSER
The classic sulfur treatment cleanser for visible breakouts,
clinically proven, in a mild cleanser base.
Active ingredient: colloidal sulfur 3%
Available Sizes
3.4 oz / 100 ml
8 oz / 240 ml
Product Information
The classic sulfur treatment cleanser for visible breakouts, clinically proven, in a mild cleanser base.
We like to follow the use of this cleanser with REVIVE. Everything goes better with REVIVE.
Key Benefits
Sulfur targets breakouts
Glycol and related alcohol free
Soft, clean after feel
Acid free
Preservative free
Targeted Skin Type
Breakout prone skin
Skincare Concerns
Pustular breakouts are both troublesome and simple to correct the visible problem. An effective SULFUR CLEANSER like ours can be difficult to find without a lot of added ingredients that can aggravate the skin.
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
Purified water, sulfur, zinc oxide, sodium laurylglucosides, urea, kosher glycerine, cellulose polymer
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 is the classic choice to stop visible breakouts that find a home with oily and combination skin.
Oily skin can be aggravated by foaming cleansers. A vicious circle of harsh cleansing generating a more oily response can go on and on with no end in sight.
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 anyone will realize this approach doesn’t work.
If it works today, it won’t work for long. In fact, it is how to preserve breakouts not be rid of them. See discussions of these factors in our REFERENCE TOPICS.
If you seriously want to fix what is visibly wrong and you have an oily skin, start with SULFUR CLEANSER. Your best outcome will be to alternate this with REVIVE during the week. Alternate days. You may also bring in RECOVERY CLEANSER. With these three cleansers in play, on alternating days, the better your skin will look. FACE & BODY BAR works perfectly into this idea, too.
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 VERY well. Dispense immediately.
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:
Pustular breakouts, unstable
Not for your skin if these conditions exist:
Dermatitis
Recommended frequency of use:
As needed but prefer alternating with REVIVE, RECOVERY CLEANSER and FACE & BODY BAR. The more the better. Variety is the key to stable skin, but only if that variety is mild, mild, mild.
Actives while using SULFUR 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:
CALMING MIST 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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SULFUR CLEANSER
The classic sulfur treatment cleanser for visible breakouts, clinically proven, in a mild cleanser base. Active ingredient: colloidal sulfur 3%
Available Sizes
3.4 oz / 100 ml
8 oz / 240 ml
Product Information
The classic sulfur treatment cleanser for visible breakouts, clinically proven, in a mild cleanser base.
We like to follow the use of this cleanser with REVIVE. Everything goes better with REVIVE.
Key Benefits
Sulfur targets breakouts
Glycol and related alcohol free
Soft, clean after feel
Acid free
Preservative free
Targeted Skin Type
Breakout prone skin
Skincare Concerns
Pustular breakouts are both troublesome and simple to correct the visible problem. An effective SULFUR CLEANSER like ours can be difficult to find without a lot of added ingredients that can aggravate the skin.
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
Purified water, sulfur, zinc oxide, sodium laurylglucosides, urea, kosher glycerine, cellulose polymer
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 is the classic choice to stop visible breakouts that find a home with oily and combination skin.
Oily skin can be aggravated by foaming cleansers. A vicious circle of harsh cleansing generating a more oily response can go on and on with no end in sight.
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 anyone will realize this approach doesn’t work.
If it works today, it won’t work for long. In fact, it is how to preserve breakouts not be rid of them. See discussions of these factors in our REFERENCE TOPICS.
If you seriously want to fix what is visibly wrong and you have an oily skin, start with SULFUR CLEANSER. Your best outcome will be to alternate this with REVIVE during the week. Alternate days. You may also bring in RECOVERY CLEANSER. With these three cleansers in play, on alternating days, the better your skin will look. FACE & BODY BAR works perfectly into this idea, too.
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 VERY well. Dispense immediately.
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:
Pustular breakouts, unstable
Not for your skin if these conditions exist:
Dermatitis
Recommended frequency of use:
As needed but prefer alternating with REVIVE, RECOVERY CLEANSER and FACE & BODY BAR. The more the better. Variety is the key to stable skin, but only if that variety is mild, mild, mild.
Actives while using SULFUR 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:
CALMING MIST 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.
Add Products to your cart
Enter the first 3 letters of a product into the search bar.
Regimens
Specific regimens for specific skin issues and their approximate monthly cost