It was Sparky who mentioned Mario Badescu helping with rosacea: paging Sparky1 for product rec

Thanks -t

Who was it who recommended Mario Badescu for rosacea? I want to make sure I bought the right stuff. The keratoplast creme soap?

I use the cream soap or the make-up remover soap, the chamomile cleansing lotion, and the aloe moisturizer. For me, if I go to anything else, the rosacea comes back. When I tried another moisturizer, the rosacea stayed away but I got a bit of eczema.

I seem to love all of the things that irritate rosacea: red wine, hot yoga, coffee . . . so the fact that I can keep it at bay without any metrogel by using the Badescu stuff was a big win.

If this Badescu stuff can keep my face from flushing bright red because of EVERYTHING and more capillaries from being visible in my cheeks, I will pay pretty much anything for it. What is this witchcraft?

I don't know what it is, but it works for me. YBadescuMV. Heaven knows I tried just about every other "good for rosacea" cleanser on the planet.

What's the name of it?

The Badescu stuff I listed above!

Thanks Sparky. I think I bought the right soap but I got the kera moisturizer, not the aloe. Will try that next time. I hear you on the coffee and the red wine. And spicy foods.

Metrogel does zip, diddley, and squat for me. I am now using Azelex cream as that makes the redness go away for a good few hours, but only the steroid creams work on the eczema for me. Still the difference between yesterday and today is ginormous, so I'm going with it.

Not for rosacea, just for general finally-can-I-not-haz-acne? I use Mario Badescu. Last time I was unemployed I downgraded back to Neutrogena and the acne came back, so I'm now a slave to their prices. Fuckers. I use the seaweed cleansing soap every day, and either the herbal hydrating serum (costly!) or the buttermilk moisturiser every day too to moisturise. If I want middle of the day cleaning, or if I felt horribly dirty before using the soap, I also use the seaweed cleansing lotion as a refresher/extra clean, and I barely get any acne anymore--maybe once every 2 or 3 months I get a pimple. It's too much like a miracle for me to fuss with.

They have live chat on their site, so you could ask them about rosacea or eczema-specific products too. Oh, and you get three samples with each order, although little has convinced me to start buying it.

Considering price, I signed up for their discount newsletter. I hate when those have a point. I feel played.

Totally unrelatedly, some random email I got recently had this description which I think is adorable:

John Cleese, a long-time friend and facial expression aficionado

Fine, fine, boast about friendship, but the latter part of the description is very apt.

I'm trying to convince my sister to come to LA so she can ask Colin her own questions about the people she's fans of that he knows. I'm trying to act like a normal, fanart-drawing, SPN cushion-having, person, not a fan (he sent pics of the Castiel pictures to Misha, as well as at least one of my pictures, so my ship might have sailed...), so she needs to go nuts asking real life questions about Norman Reedus, not me.

Maybe they meant he was a friend aficionado. It's really not clear.