Salicylic Acid Peel 25% 1oz. 30ml (Level 1 pH 2.2)

I don't like the strong smell coming from the peel. It stings my eyes. However, product does dry fast, is mess free, and seems to work fine.

This is basically just salicylic acid in water. As such, since it is at such a high percentage, it exceeds the maximum saturation point. When I dip a clean qtip into the bottle and apply it to a clogged pore, it almost instantaneously leaves a white circle once the product’s water content has been absorbed. This white circle isn’t “frosting,” it’s not the acid inside the skin being active, it’s actually just useless wasted salicylic powder. In order for me to make that remaining powder useful, I would have to add additional water to it very carefully, but since I am not a chemist or a dermatologist, I then risk burning myself. So the only real option is to let the powder go to waste, which is, by its very nature, wasteful. For this reason, most companies when formulating strong peels, they will use more than just water, creating sort of gel matrixes so that all of the included ingredients can actually be useful rather than the equivalent of being thrown in the trash. I’m not sure at what percentage salicylic acid exceeds its maximum saturation point in plain water, I’ve had similar “crystal circles” left behind by 20% water-only products, but did not have this when using a 15% product, so maybe it’s 16% or 17% or 18%, I don’t know, but, needless to say, this product is not what I expected it to be. I used it on the same spot two days in a row, leaving it on for more than 20 minutes each time, and the accumulative effect is just about equal to the 15% salicylic gel matrix that I’ve used from another company. To be fair, this company probably doesn’t mix the salicylic with ONLY water, because it dries to quickly they most likely use some types of alcohols to make it shelf stable, this prevents it from being relentlessly “active” when applied to the skin, but I really do find this unnecessarily cautious (and, again, wasteful) because it’s assuming people will not rinse it off in the appropriate amount of time, it’s assuming people will not have neutralizers of any sort, it’s selling something labeled as 25% but not actually formulating in a way that it can live up to its potential. It really feels misleading, unfortunately.

As described

Previously I was using a 20% Salicylic from a different supplier. It was very effective. I decided it was time to increase to 25% so I bought this product. It is milder than the 20% was. I need to keep reapplying in order to get any action. It also crystallizes almost immediately. I am not talking about a skin frost, the peel actually turns to a white powder. Never seen this happen with any other product. I would have returned it, but I waited tpast the deadline to begin using.

Did not work for me ! Followed instructions Applied 5x no burn sting NOTHING! Only thing happened was that it frosted . No PEEL happened what so ever... It’s now day 8 And Still no peel!

With this order you will get acid only, no hyaluronic serum and no neutralizer as it shown on the picture.