Noble Formula 2% Pyrithione Zinc (ZnP) Original Bar Soap, 3.25 oz

I have had this same bar for a year and I’m guessing it will last me another 6-12 months. I use it twice a day. I use this in conjunction with my own mixture of 1/2 castor oil 1/2 almond oil that I oil cleanse with before hand to loosen up any sebum or clogged pores. Then I go in with this to use the zinc as an acne treatment. Ever since using this combination— admittedly in conjunction with lactic acid, tretinoin, vitamin c, sunblock— my acne has disappeared. Finding this bar was the last step I added in in addition to all the other active mentioned and for me it made all the difference. All other cleansers were too harsh or too lotiony. I don’t react well to anything with fragrance, glycolic acid, or lactic acid. This zinc bar was what my acne needed and my acne was more under the skin, painful liquidy pimples. Not tiny fungal acne that this is commonly used to treat. So if nothing else has worked for you as far as cleaners give this a try- and for the love of God get yourself on a retinol.

My dermatologist recommended this. I use it as regular body soap, but it’s also the only soap I’d ever use on my face. Gentle, moisturizing, great for sensitive skin.

This soap was introduced to me by an acquaintance. I was telling her how I have acne all my life, and sometime it is worse than others. She told me about this soap. It’s now my holy grail. I’ve been using this for 3 and half months now. I’m proud to say I’m going to keep buying it. It is rather expensive for a bar of soap, but it does the trick. I actually cut the soap into 4 decent size pieces. You can try using a knife to cut it piece by piece. It does break sometime, but it doesn’t matter. I use the broken down piece. The reason why I say cut it into several pieces if because the soap does get slippery and it will keep falling off your hands. You need to use water and wait for the foam to start showing on your hands, wait for the “sticky” stuff to appear on your hands, and then put it onto your face. Leave it on for at least a minute for better results. I usually leave it on for about 3-5 minutes at least bare minimum Onwards to the results, you have to have patience with this soap. It does bring down your current acne a whole lot after a day. For instance, I had acne that were getting bigger and even had puss on it. Once I use the soap, it literally shrinks it and the puss comes out right away. It starts to heal and becomes smaller. If you use this consistently like I do everyday, it will eventually clear your skin off some more. Takes time. It’s not an overnight miracle but it does have some mini miracles. I use this twice a day. Once in the morning, once after I do my yoga work out in the middle of the afternoon. I do have to say that it does dry my face out, so I use a nice moisturizer afterwards. Best if you use sunscreen. I use the Sun Bum that has no break outs sunscreen. I also advise that you buy a soap box holder. Putting it in a plastic zip bag is ok but I prefer to put it in a soap box. I got one for 95 cents at Wal Mart. The reason why I say soap box is because the bag can stick to the soap when you put it in, and it will leave left over soap onto the plastic. If you have a soap box, you can scope up the left over soap and can still use it. It’ll be harder if it was stick onto a plastic zipper bag. Just my opinion. If you use the soap right, one bar of soap can last you 2-3 months depending on how you use it. My first bar lasted me for 2 and half months. I’m on my 2!d bar of soap right now and it’s holding off well. Like I said, I suggest cutting the soap into 3-4 pieces. They don’t have to be even but that makes your soap last longer. Each smaller piece, it lasted me about 2-3 weeks. That’s my two cents about this soap! ^_^

As you know, when we have unusual reactions to things we are alone to figure out the cause and remedy. We are not taken seriously and the effect is blamed on something else and that is that. So I'm on my own, with the worst skin issue with no end in sight. I used this 4-6 times on my face. It felt fine the first and second day. Then the burning and peeling started. That is fine, I've been through that before. I waited for it to pass and tried again. Same result the second time, but worse. I continued to use it, but changed my method thinking that would help, it didn't. So now I'm in the recovery period. It has been weeks and my skin is always rough, dry, and feels dirty as others have described. This is worse than the eczema I was using it for. At least with that I knew what it was and what to do about it, but this I have no clue as nothing works. So I might be stuck with a crusty face for forever. I would list the things I've tried to remedy this, but Amazon or the sellers do not like that so I can't. Basically all the things that are known to break down dead skin cells and to deeply moisturize and yet no improvement.

Works great. Soap has a viscous feel to it once you lather it up. But it's worth the benefits to your skin.