:Clear Skin Blog

Anyone can review a product online. Acne-Vitamins has posted our own reviews of some competing products based on ingredients and customer feedback from sites such as acne.org. However, it’s quite another thing when a site claims to be an objective, “scientific” source of reviews as some of the sites you see advertising on Google and elsewhere do - and even go so far as to give numerical scores to products without any testing.

I recently came across one such site which gave low scores to many acne treatments without any explanation (including B5 treatments such as Clear5, and well, almost everything), while awarding near perfect scores to a bunch of products I’d never heard of that are mostly sold through ebay (and generally overpriced). Fraudulent review sites like pricesexposed.org may be easy to pick out by those that spend a lot of time online, but they no doubt fool many casual surfers. A truly scientific review should have stats - a test group of significant size that is monitored over a period of time for results, preferably alongside a similar group using a placebo. At the very least, you would expect some explanation for how things like “acne fighting power” are measured and scores are tallied…

While no acne treatment works in 100% of cases, most of them work in at least some situations, as anyone who studies the popular active ingredients and understands how they work would know. A serious review should explain what ingredients a product uses and how successful it is given its method.

In any case, a heads up about shipping prices - The US Postal Service is raising their rates effective May 14th, and so we’re bumping up shipping costs a bit. I think you’ll find we’re still a lot cheaper on shipping than most of competition, but I apologize for the slight raise. Let’s just hope gas doesn’t hit $4 a barrel and drive postage any higher.