Acne Product Review Sites
Happy St Patrick’s Day!
While browsing around doing my usual survey of the acne resources on the web, I often come across any number of sites offering “professional” reviews of acne treatments. Obviously, from my perspective almost all of these sites are instantly recognizable as affiliate marketing sites, but to those less aware of all the ways people make money off search engines, it’s easy to mistake some of these for serious reference pages.
Even if you don’t know how to spot an affiliate link, there are a few tell-tale signs that give away false review sites. First off, you’ll notice the best product is often the most expensive one. Since affiliate sites usually stand to make more money off those sites with the highest average ticket price, expensive products such as ZENMED’s $100 per month program are often up at the top of the list. Secondly, you’ll notice many mainstream products are not reviewed. Comparison charts are often made up of online-only products that the “reviewer” stands to directly make money off of.
Now, the fact is some of these products may in fact work, but you would probably do a lot better to research them from a believable review source. So where do you go for better reviews? Forget about “professional” reviews, as these don’t really exist. Even many high-profile magazines often give you very loaded lists of products (usually only from manufacturers that happen to advertise in the mag). Your best bet is to look into actual user reviews and see if enough of them are positive to warrant giving the product a try. Be warned that a lot of people will complain about even the best products, but find a few sensible reviews from both sides and then decide for yourself. For a myriad of acne products, Acne.org has plenty of user reviews, and mainstream online retailers such as Drugstore.com are also a good place to start.
