Review | La Roche-Posay Effaclar Duo

Information

Brand | La Roche-Posay
Product | Effaclar Duo [+]
Size | 40ml
Price | £15.50
Purchased from | Boots
Made in | France
Would I repurchase | No

If you read my review of the LA ROCHE-POSAY EFFACLAR A.I the you probably know that when I originally bought that product I had actually wanted to buy this one. So about 3 months ago I was feeling flush and finally decided to buy this a give it a try.

Ingredients |

 AQUA / WATER, GLYCERIN, DIMETHICONE, ISOCETYL STEARATE, NIACINAMIDE, ISOPROPYL LAUROYL SARCOSINATE, SILICA, AMMONIUM POLYACRYLDIMETHYLTAURAMIDE / AMMONIUM POLYACRYLOYLDIMETHYL TAURATE, METHYL METHACRYLATE CROSSPOLYMER, POTASSIUM CETYL PHOSPHATE, ZINC PCA, GLYCERYL STEARATE SE, ISOHEXADECANE, SODIUM HYDROXIDE, MYRISTYL MYRISTATE, 2-OLEAMIDO-1,3-OCTADECANEDIOL, NYLON-12, POLOXAMER 338, LINOLEIC ACID, DISODIUM EDTA, CAPRYLOYL SALICYLIC ACID, CAPRYLYL GLYCOL, XANTHAN GUM, POLYSORBATE 80, ACRYLAMIDE/SODIUM ACRYLOYLDIMETHYLTAURATE COPOLYMER, PENTAERYTHRITYL TETRA-DI-T-BUTYL HYDROXYHYDROCINNAMATE, SALICYLIC ACID, PIROCTONE OLAMINE, PARFUM

Like the Effaclar A.I targeted spot treatment it has a very light fragrance and a gel like consistency. I use this as my second step in my skin care regime after I use my witch hazel. It smooths in to the skin really nicely and leaves the skin looking nice and matte and clear. I follow with a moisturiser in the morning and at night a 'miracle oil' (review to come!) 
To be honest since using this I haven't noticed a massive difference. In the first week I did, mainly I think because I wanted to see results. I felt as though my chin was clearer, I have these under the skin spots that aren't really visible unless you stick your tongue in the area around your lower lip and push the bottom lip out, that sounds really gross and wrong I do appologise but I'm sure you probably know what I mean.
And after the first week I felt that these had got much better and had reduced.
But throughout my use they are still present, although marginally better. I had also hoped that as this is an unclogging product, my black heads would be reduced also, but alas I genuinely think that no product can fully remove them. So there was no difference there.
As well as an unclogging product, the Effaclar Duo is meant to help with reducing marks left from bigger face beasties. My skin has been immensely better of late so I've only suffered with a few bigger pimples but this didn't seem to help in speeding up the healing process of those marks.
I have used this product every day, morning and night for the last 3 months and I am now down to the last spattering of product so I think I have a solid opinion of it. And I have to say I am sadly disapointed in it. I absoloutly love the Effaclar A.I formular, but this doesn't hit the mark for me and for the price I won't be re-purchasing it. I'm glad that I tried it out and sad that it didn't work as well as I had hoped but atleast my purse will be happy I won't be shelling out £15 for a new tube.

Jeni x

Review | La Roche-Posay Effaclar A.I

Hi Guys!

First up sorry for being a little MIA over the last few weeks life has been a bit busy and I was on holiday last week, but now I'm back! So lets get on with the review!

Information

Brand | La Roche-Posay

Product | Effaclar A.I targeted Breakout Corrector

Size | 15ml

Price | £9.99

Made in | France

Purchased at | Boots

Would I re-purchase | yes!

I'm completely new to this brand and it was only after seeing an advert on youtube for La Roche-Posay that I had even heard of it. Just out of interest while in Boots I thought I'd see if they had the brand, and they did! The advert I saw was actually for the Effaclar DUO[+] which I had wanted to try instead but I couldn't remember the name at the time, all I kept thinking was its Effaclar, so in short I bought the wrong one BUT I don't regret that at all!

Like it says on the box it is a targeted breakout correcter. Use it on areas that are breaking out or where you have one big pimple. Its paraben free and non-comedogenic (won't clog your pores). 

Effaclar A.I. is an intensive local skincare treatment that purges imperfections in-depth to accelerate their resorption and prevent residual skin marking:

Niacinamide stops the development of the breakout.

The piroctone olamine/glycacil combination purifies the seat of bacterial activity to resorb skin imperfections.

Micro-exfoliating LHA and repairing La Roche-Posay thermal spring water, activate the skin regeneration process.

The cream itself is very light and hardly scented. A little bit goes a long way. One of the best things about this is that there is no benzyl peroxide, which is something that is used in a lot of spot treatments to dry out the spot, which in turn dries out your skin. And I've had some pretty bad experiences with that, not to mention due to the peroxide, it bleaches things! But this does not. I can use it on a large area with absolutely no worries about getting a dry patch and I'm not worried about bleaching my mums towels!   

As for its effectiveness, I'd say after 4 applications so 2 days, your spot is massively reduced. After the first day there is a noticeable difference. Since I've been using this my larger spots are much less frequent, though I still get the little white-headed beasts.

In my opinion if you are suffering with a large under the skin spot with no head, its best just to apply this and leave it be. But with white-heads I have honestly found it better to pop it, then apply the cream. When I have left it alone and simply applied the cream, it seems to grow and get bigger and itchier (anyone else find that with whiteheads?).

All in all I am happy with this, it does help reduce my spots/pimple and I think it does work really well. I still get a little scar from the spot but it does seem to fade away much quicker than they used too.

I would defiantly recommend this to a friend and would buy it again! I know £9.99 seems a lot but I've been using this for nearly 3 months now, every day and I have about 3/4 left in my tube.

Hope this has helped!

Have a great day!

Jen x