Ovace Wash and Gel
Went to the derm today and got these products, plus Rosula cleanser.
They are all sodium sulfacetamide products. Anyone have any luck
with these–the gel seems pretty good so far, no color no odor, just
a clear gel.
Thanks for any thoughts on this.
RJ
February 26th, 2005 at 7:45 pm
I am using Ovace Wash for about a month. So far it’s the best product for
SD I’ve tried!! It’s a bit drying though. Anybody have a moisturizier for
ovace?
February 27th, 2005 at 2:27 am
I’ve used Ovace. I didn’t have much luck with it. My derm seemed to
think I might be allergic to sulfur products. I’m not sure whether
that was an accurate assessment by her in hindsight. She had me using
retin-a, plus a sulfur based cream, plus the ovace every few days.
Since I still had issues after removing the sulfur based products, my
guess is the real culprit was the retin-a based product.
I haven’t gone back and really tried the Ovace again. I may try it on
my chest and see if I get a reaction.
So basically, I"ve used it. I think it’s a good product, it just may
not have been for me.
Eric
February 28th, 2005 at 1:02 am
Eric,
I have never heard of retin-a for seb derm–in fact some people claim
that using retin-a for acne has caused their seb derm.
Anyway, the Ovace gel seems really inert (have not tried the cleanser
yet)–used it last night and it this morning a few minor seb derm
patches looked a little better. I am not currently in a major flare
so when that happens I will put the Ovace gel to a true test, but at
least it seems I am not allergic to it.
I hesitate to sue the cleanser as I am sure that it will really dry
my skin out to much–the gel, though not really mostuirizing, does
not seem like it will be overly drying, it just looks and feels inert
on skin which I feel is a huge advantage over the steroids and creams
that most of us use daily.
Will update again soon.
RJ
February 28th, 2005 at 7:03 pm
Well, it was actually Avita…which is retin-A based, but supposedly a
much less harsh formulation than Retin-A. I think the idea is to get
cell turnover. However, to me, it just resulted in irritating the
skin and making the seb derm worse. I had a little bit of acne to
that we were trying to get rid of. However, that was easily cleared
by merely washing my face with a cleanser (Oil of Olay foaming facial
cleanser for sensitive skin) and shaving with my electric razor much
lighter. I think I was merely creating ingrown hairs. So I dropped
all that nonsense.
The Ovace definitely seemed like it was very drying. However, I was
also using the sulfur cream + Avita. So, triple drying action going
on there. I could just blow a hair dryer on my face for a lot cheaper
=). You might try the Ovace cleanser with more of a dabbing motion.
For instance, rather than cleanse with it, just suds it up and dab it
on then rinse off after 5 min. I’ve been doing this with Nizoral
shampoo 2% to fairly good effect every couple of weeks or so.
Eric