Take Care 10% Sulphur Soap 190g BarCompact by Design (Certified by Amazon)

Great for back acne and face acne. This is a medicinal product due to the sulphur. As it contains sulphur, it unsurprisingly smells like sulphur. This smell is actually unpleasant and your bathroom and towel will smell of it for a while after you shower and dry. It does not stain. the smell does not linger on your skin. You will get used to it after a few weeks. Do not expect this soap to smell of flowers or be a cosmetic or pampering type product, despite descriptions I've seen of 'flowers of sulphur' being used to make this product. Im pretty sure no flowers were used at all.This is a small price to pay as it has helped me greatly reduce my back acne from multiple painful boils to almost nothing with just a few times a week. I leave the lather on for a minute or two before washing off on the affected areas. After its success on my back I used on my face and it worked on my face acne too. It can dry the skin a bit though so you may need a moisturiser. One bar lasts forever though. I started using mine in January and it eventually ran out in May. Very impressive!

I originally decided to buy this to try treating my acne, but havnt used it for long enough yet to notice much results. However I also tried substituting my regular soaps for this one to use in the shower too, and the results were incredible. With normal soap bars from retail stores, I usually have to wash my body 2-3 times, and even then still have some body odour left, end up with a stinky towel as well as not feeling completely clean particularly in my armpits. Amazingly when I used this soap, I just washed my body once with it, and everything was cleaned better than it ever has been. There was no more odour left, or clinginess / unclean feeling, and also neither my towel nor the bathroom had any odours after I finished washing. Though when I use it on my face, it seems to leave a slightly negative smell similar to boiled eggs, likely due to the sulphur, but I didnt have this problem when using it on my body and hair, so I'll carry on using this soap in the shower, and try the tea tree oil one from the same brand on my face instead.

Had constant excessive yeast problem on my face. Redness, itchiness, flaky skin.Been at the dermatologists for 3-4 time, almost all of them recommended hydrocortisone. It was unhelpful and did not help at all. Some told me that I need to moisturize it 3-4 times a day, so I just took a big bottle of moisturizer with me all the time. Quite annoying and needless to say it didn't help much.The only thing that somewhat helped me was natamycin and neomycin(a substance found in anti-years ointments), and those somewhat helped but wasn't the perfect solution.I gave the sulfur soap a go and my flaky skin, redness and itchiness is forever gone.I use it in the morning to wash my face then I use some(any) moisturizer, although I'm not sure if I actually need a moisturizer anymore!! I do this daily and I was able to see results in about 2-3 days.My face is clean, no spots or acne either. It doesn't kill blackheads, but hey, you can't have everything!For curiosity once I tried to stop using the soap just to see if all the above problem comes back. It does! Took about 2-3 days and all the problem slowly started to show once again. So quickly I got back washing my face and it all fixed it.The soap lasts ages, I bought it 2-3 months ago, using it everyday and it still looks like I just bought it yesterday.Anybody having skin problems, it's recommended to AT LEAST give it a try. You won't be disappointed.I could not say anything negative about it, it doesn't smell bad as some reviewers say, it's just a regular(but useful!!!) soap.I would give 10 stars if I could!

I've only just started using this but so far it does a fantastic job of clearing all the crap off my teenage face (oils, dirt, dead skin, and so forth) and it's too soon to comment on whether or not it helps my moderate acne but I will update my review if it does a good job, which it seems like it will!Naturally you will need to use this in conjunction with a good moisturiser, although I'm not sure why so many people knock it for that as I don't know of any effective skin products below £30 that don't dry out your face a bit. It is also worth mentioning that while this soap is very good for the skin on your face, be extra careful as getting so much as the tiniest bit into your eye (even when mixed with water) is like losing a water fight in which your opponent's weapon is loaded with undiluted hydrochloric acid. No, seriously, don't get this stuff in your eye. They're still watering as I write this review.Overall, seems good and I will hopefully have more praises to sing further down the line. Four stars as they could have at least ATTEMPTED to tame the potent stench of smouldering farts. I might update it to 5 if it works miracles for my skin.UPDATE 07/03/15: I thought I'd get used to it. However, nearly three weeks later, my face, bathroom, pillow and wash cloth all still reek of volcanic bum cakes, as strong as ever. You really don't get used to the smell of sulphur! So far the soap has definitely improved my face - I get a lot less small spots and as previously stated, it keeps my oiliness at bay and "mattifies" the skin quite nicely for a few hours at least - however it has done no favours in terms of reducing marks and I still get a fair few mountainous whiteheads. It also did nothing to clear my blackheads, although they are slightly easier to remove after applying this. Sadly not effective enough to win back the star lost to the odour of a food-poisoned Minotaur on laxatives.If, like myself, you can tolerate such a smell then I would definitely recommend buying this soap (particularly if you have oily skin), but otherwise it's not worth the gagging.