do you really need a face-cleaning appliance?

In the olden days, people used to go down to the river to wash their clothes with rocks.  Soon people may look back and say “What?  People used to wash their face with hands?”  Yes, the Clarisonic Skincare Brush is that good. 

I’ll just start off by saying the Clarisonic isn’t cheap.  (But it will save you money in facials and other skin care products in the long run.)

The brush is super soft and gentle and doesn’t rotate but rather unperceptively vibrates.  The first few days I used it, it actually brought deeply lurking blemishes to the surface.  So be forewarned, your skin may get worse before it gets better.  It’s kind of like your face is in rehab and it might have to vomit and sweat some stuff out before it’s officially considered clean.  (Sorry, Amy Winehouse, it’s not available in a body size yet.)

The other Clarisonic side-effect, that the lovely Bellasugar pointed out in her review, is during week two your face might start exuding liquids. My theory on this is, it cleans out your pores so thoroughly that there’s nothing holding what’s in your pores, in your pores. So much so, that if I drank a smoothie, I lived in fear that it would suddenly come gushing out of my pores in the middle of a client meeting.

I tried Bellasugar’s reco of switching to using it only once a day and that did the trick. (But now that it’s less hot out, I’ve gone back to using it twice a day and the facial water works have stopped.) 

You can buy a great cleanser, exfoliant and face mask, but in my opinion using the Clarisonic daily will improve your skin more than all of them combined.

Thankfully, your hands won’t be completely obsolete, you’ll still need one of them to push the button on your Clarisonic.

Oprah calls the Clarisonic “a miracle massage for your face”.  And considering she probably
 owns several masseuses, that’s quite the compliment. 

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Comments

[*jen]

I laughed my ass off when Clarisonic offered to send me one of these for testing earlier this year. I stopped laughing one my skin cleared up. :)

[*K*]

This sounds awesome! I have dry skin- do you think this would be too harsh for me? Also, I have a sonicare toothbrush (the makers of Clarisonic) and whenever you take it out of your mouth, it sprays water EVERYWHERE. Does this gadget make a mess?

[jenny]

Hey K,
I have dry skin too. I think it's actually good for all skin types. It supposedly reduces dry patches which I believe since it seems to all around soften and smooth out skin. As for the spraying it doesn't spay like the Sonicare. Just vibrates. You can't even tell from looking at the bristles whether it's on or not. Definitely no spraying. And not harsh at all.s
jenny

[Truptip]

My impossible smugness didn't last long after recently snagging a cheap online deal on the Pro model (ego high, take me higher). Just a few days into using Clarisonic, & my extra-hyper-duper-(insert superlatives here)-oily skin, that usually keeps spewing sebum after every blot like clockwork, turned oilslick-y (think poor birds imagery after the Exxon Valdez tragedy). The theory is (derm doc says so): stimulation of those god-dang sebaceous glands is directly proportional to the amount of sebum they produce. Stimulation includes vigorous scrubbing and zealous cleansing. Same holds true for that old 100-hairbrush-strokes-before-bedtime tip. Since my face could easily pass for a photo of martian surface beamed back by Opportunity/Spirit, I cut back the Clarisonic-ing to atmost thrice a week. Now the oiliness is in control and is losing the battle! :)
PS: I also switched from schmanzy facewashes for "blemish prone/congested skin" back to my beloved Purpose soap bar (frugal done good suits me).

[jenny]

wow. I'm having the opposite problem. Now that it's winter and my skin is so dry, my clarisonic is making my skin even drier. I think I'll take your thrice a week suggestion. Maybe that's the perfect amount for all skin types. And glad to hear the Purpose is working betting than the fancy stuff. I love a good underdog story.