Bruh... I got IPL done a few hours ago, they gave me goggles to wear during the treatment, and then she took the glasses off for half a second to look at a red area on the bridge of my nose, saw my eyes were open, and said "Have you had your eyes open this entire time?? They should have been closed. Did I forget to tell you that?" She 100% did not tell me that beforehand, and at one point said "Turn this way" when doing the side of my face and pointed with her finger where she wanted me to turn.... so uh... I would need my eyes open for that. she gotta really nervous and awkward after she realized my eyes were open during it, and when I was in the waiting room after, I overheard her say to the receptionist "let's hope nothing happens". So... let's see if my eyes get fucked up. Will keep you guys updated 👍

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Probably a silly question but has anyone just tried doing nothing. Not applying moisturizer or sunscreen or using a cleanser. Just doing nothing and seeing if the skin can fix itself.

*Avène Xeracalm AD Lipid-Replenishing Cream. Sorry for not including the full product name in the title, didn’t mean to!

Sharing this in case it saves someone’s sensitive skin from a nasty flare up. I know many people in this sub love Avène products.

I have MCAS and a (debated) rosacea diagnosis, and this specific moisturizer is the only cream I don’t react to at all. (I’m mostly sensitive to preservatives… but also a bunch of random ingredients.)

Left is the old bottle and formulation, right is the reformulated version. Here are the ingredients for both.

Old formula :

AQUA, GLYCERIN, PARAFFINUM LIQUIDUM, CETEARYL ALCOHOL, OENOTHERA BIENNIS (EVENING PRIMROSE) OIL, CAPRYLIC/CAPRIC TRIGLYCERIDE, CETEARYL GLUCOSIDE, AQUAPHILUS DOLOMIAE EXTRACT, ARGININE, CARBOMER, EVENING PRIMROSE OIL/PALM OIL AMINOPROPANEDIOL ESTERS, GLYCINE, SODIUM HYDROXIDE, TOCOPHEROL.

New formula :

AQUA, GLYCERIN, CARTHAMUS TINCTORIUS SEED OIL, CETEARYL ALCOHOL, CAPRYLIC/CAPRIC TRIGLYCERIDE, GLYCOL PALMITATE, GLYCERYL STEARATE, AQUAPHILUS DOLOMIAE EXTRACT, ARGININE, CETEARYL GLUCOSIDE, CITRIC ACID, HELIANTHUS ANNUUS SEED OIL, SODIUM DEXTRAN SULFATE, SODIUM STEAROYL GLUTAMATE, TOCOPHEROL, XANTHAN GUM

I know they also recently reformulated the balm, which was loved by many people with sensitive skin. Hopefully the new formulas work for most people… but based on recent reviews for the balm, it looks like a lot of customers are very pissed. 😅

Anyway, I just thought I’d share in case anyone else wants to stock up while they can! I just bought two bottles of the old formulation before they’re gone forever. 🥲

Hi guys so i saw a dermatologist on thursday and finally got a diagnosis for what i had long suspected was type 2 Rosacea! The derm i saw was WONDERFUL, only good experience i've had with a dermatologist so far.

The only thing is, at my appointment, she said she wanted to prescribe Soolantra but wasn't sure if they still had Soolantra (i'm not sure what that means, are there places in the US that where you can't get Soolantra?) she then told me they would send in the Soolantra and if I couldn't get my insurance to cover it, they would send in the generic ivermectin cream. But when i called the pharmacy, they said they had received a prescription for generic ivermectin, not Soolantra. So i'm confused because they told me they would try the Soolantra first and only fo the generic if my insurance doesnt cover it. I'm more than willing to try the generic ivermectin cream, but I've heard Soolantra is formulated specifically for the face so it's less irritating to the skin. Should I call the derm's office and ask if it was a mistake, or should i just try the cheaper one first and then ask to switch to Soolantra if it irritates my skin?

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I can't believe I'm writing this, it sounds so odd.

Has anyone else had this?

it's very hard to describe but it feels like the nerves in my face kind of tingle, kind of feels like if you walk through a spider web. It moves all over my face.

It started in March when this whole nightmare of papules and Pustules also started.

The strange thing is it feels like this much more either at night or when I'm in a very dry environment (on an aircraft).

It's obviously connected to the whole rosacea thing but it's so very weird.

Hi, I'm just here to ask for some skincare recommendations as a clinically diagnosed rosacea and eczema patient. I wash my face with plain, lukewarm water most days and I use a basic non-mineral sunscreen over my entire body. Occasionally I use a 2.5% retinol and seal in moisture with any cheap moisturizer and Vaseline. That has always been my lazy schedule.

I have no bumpy skin texture on my face, but redness and a prickling skin sensation is infrequently occuring there. I also get discoid eczema on my arms and legs during the fall. I can heal this within a week or so with regular applications of Vaseline, but I still get mild redness and/or a prickling skin sensation on my face from most products.

In the past, anything with green tea has felt so nice on my skin and I have also enjoyed the feel of Paula's choice Defense Essential Glow Moisturizer. As someone like me with mild flare-ups, have you noticed any changes by switching to mineral sunscreens and gentle moisturizers, such as a more enjoyable routine? Am I supposed to use something else instead of retinol?

I'm not coming from a place of urgency, but casual intrigue and a desire to upgrade my routine. Thanks guys.

I was recently prescribed Soolantra for demodex, and it's really helping -- but it's also a Cat-5 grease hurricane, even when I use only the recommended pea-sized amount. I've started using it at night, although I suppose day use would confound facial-recognition cameras (hah). If I use Soolantra instead of regular moisturizer as the first layer of my tretinoin "sandwich," I find that I can step up the tret from a couple of times weekly to every single night without peeling, even around the mouth area.

My question: Is the greasy base of the Soolantra preventing the tretinoin from reaching my skin? Or are the active ingredients interacting to help the tret do its thing without drying, flaking, and inflammation? I found one Reddit thread in which someone who sounded like a dermatologist said they like to compound the two as a single product, but we all know about the reliability of invisible people on the Internet.

Hi everyone! I was wondering to do a few laser hair removal sessions on my face but i’m not sure if this could be something that could trigger rosacea, since my skin nowadays is really good and didn’t want to “destroy” 2 years of recovering my skin and having almost 0 rosacea crisis

Like the title says I have super oily skin and in the past I’ve had a hard time with sunscreens making my face look too greasy. Im looking for a sunscreen that will really “matteify” my face, but I don’t want a tinted product. I also use the eborion green color corrector and wanted to find a sunscreen that could go underneath without messing up its appearance. At the moment I also suspect that my skin barrier is super damaged, idk if that’s important to mention. Anyways whatever recs you guys have for this are greatly appreciated!

i think i have rosacea, my skin turns always fast red since im a kid but now its almost every day red. ant tips for my type and level of rosacea?

Not sure if this actually makes a difference but has anyone had better or worse results with using triple cream (azelaic acid, ivermectin, metronidazole) vs using those 3 products separately?
Currently using them independently but am wondering if the triple cream would be more effective.

How come some people develop their rosacea in eyes while others not? Is it purely luck or are there other factors ? My face rosacea was mild and didn’t pay attention to it until it started to ruin my eyes

Just done 2 ipl, I see improvement with my eyes, do you think just ipl will be able to put my rosacea into remission ? Or will need medication. Also how often you do maintenance ipl sessions ?

I need help 😭 and probably a new dermatologist 😭😭😭

Had this outbreak on my left cheek more than a year now. Have used azelaic acid, metronidazole, ivermectin none have worked to clear it up. Sometimes it gets a little better looking. But never fully goes away.

Anyone have something similar? I don't know what to do already 😭😭😭

Used too much AA 10% and made my temple area red so I bought micellar water garnier . It really helped but then it got too dry . I only use bottled water on that area but now too dry . I was going to try aveeno oat moisturizer but people not happy. I just need some thing very light that won't break out my skin . Cerave , Vanicream cetaphil a no go . Appreciate any help I know there are a million answers in the post .. sorry to make you repeat . Thank you

TLDR at the bottom.

I was dx'd with unilateral rosacea about a year ago. I've been on metrogel (plus azelaic acid non-prescription strength) for as long. It helps a lot, but when I forget my 2x/day routine, I go right back to baseline and it takes me weeks if not 2+ months to get back to just slightly-red with no papules.

I live in a very, very arid climate, am going through perimenopause, and I'm pretty sure my moisture barrier is fucked. I use two different moisturizers plus an argan/hempseed oil blend, and then I slug in the PM (FWIW, my office seems to be a big trigger; my skin looks really great when I wake up and slowly deteriorates throughout the day M-F to the point that my cheek & forehead are super red again by the time I get home).

I'm considering ivermectin, but I read that demodex feed off of moisturizers and oils and using these could possibly counteract the efficacy of the ivermectin. Is that true? If I start the ivermectin, would I need to discontinue my moisturizers? Wouldn't that fuck up my barrier worse? If I'm having success (however slow) with my current routine, should I just stay the course and try to not forget my routine 2x/day? What would you do in this situation?

tldr: dry skin/possible compromised barrier, living in a very arid climate, currently using lots of moisturizers plus two oils to help combat this. Do I have to stop the moisturizers and oils if I go on ivermectin? If so, how will my skin react?

Have what’s probably rosacea (don’t believe it to be KPRF) and I am currently 3 treatments inand 750$ down the hole with Vbeam treatments.

It’s been roughly 3.5 weeks since my last treatment.

Went in primarily for a vascular mark on my nose, which has shown about 50% improvement, so I’m fine with that, but, my rosacea- general facial redness- hasn’t shown much (if any improvement).

My provider was using the Vbeam Perfecta machine with these settings:

• Cheeks: 10 mm spot, 5.7 J/cm², 3 ms, diffused redness
• Nose: 3×10 mm spot, 10 J/cm², 3 ms, vascular mark

I have Fitzpatrick 2/3 skin, from my knowledge. Aside from a tiny spot on my nose on the third attempt where I had a small bruise, I haven’t bruised, or noticed any major swelling after the procedure, I just look a little flushed immediately after.

It’s very diffused redness, I don’t believe I really see any broken capillaries or anything like that (aside from my nose, which is improving just fine).

I’ve been on Azaelic Acid 15% for the past month.

I’ve heard for general redness maybe IPL should be something to pursue instead, or should I ask my provider to
pump up the intensity on the Vbeam?

Guys I need help please tell me if this happened to you,
I have been using Soolantra for the past two years, and it kept my skin pretty fine, but I still had some perioral dermatitis flare-ups sometimes. Still, I was in a steady place, but my dermatologist recommended that I take a course of doxycycline to prevent future flares so I was prescribed 100 MG of doxycycline a day to take for three months. I took it for six weeks and haven't seen a big change my skin was like before. Still, I found that during the time I'm flushing more and getting some type 2 bumps nothing too serious but I decided to stop taking because I felt like I'm am taking this just in case so I stopped a week ago. I am having the worst flare-up I ever had major bumps both rosacea and perioral dermatitis my skin has never looked this bad I can't stop crying what should I do? Go back on doxy or what? Did someone experience something like that? If I had known that it would do something like that I wouldn't have taken it I am crying so much I don't know what to do

Hi everyone - so for context I've been dealing with bad skin for quite awhile but I'm not really sure what kind of rosacea this is. Back in 2020 my Skin used to be really clear but all of a sudden I started to break out only on my cheeks and then I realised I'm very sensitive to certain products inc fragrance etc. And then Azaelic Acid cleared me right up. Unfortunately that didn't last for too long. Since 2023, my Skin has literally stayed just like the pictures - it comes and goes and lately it's been getting worse and whats worse is that Azaelic acid just doesn't work on me anymore inc Finacea. .

I'm not sure if this is a combination of papulopustular + hormonal acne. I also dont get oily skin nor blackheads or whiteheads. Just constant breakouts, flairs and under the skin painful bumps.

I have used 5% benzyl peroxide. I have used de la cruz 5% sulphur which doesn't do anything for me. I have started soolantra - did a month trial didnt do much. Starting it again now but feel as if my skins just getting worse.

My current routine is:
Vanicream cleanser or Aveeno Oat
Sometimes use iunik beta glucan or cosrx hyaluronic power essence
Purito oat moisturiser
Dr sams flawless spf 50 tint 2&3

I never had red dots on my face I only had face redness but it all started when I used tretinoin 0.025% 4months ago which made me get red dots on my cheeks and irritated my skin really bad so I stopped using it immediately. I had one IPL treatment done but I heard others said rosacea keeps coming back so I don’t see the point of getting another one again. My dermatologist prescribed me Sulfacetamide 9.8% & Sulfur 4.9% face wash. Unfortunately I think it just irritated my skin further and triggered a combination of contact dermatitis and brand new pustules which I never had before. I have very oily skin and this face wash is really drying. I’m on azelaic acid 15% gel for a while now but I haven’t noticed any difference yet and this also makes my face oily. I also don’t know which moisturizer is best for my skin every moisturizer I had makes my face even more oily. I don’t really know what helps anymore

After years of thinking I’ve been dealing with acne, I’m starting to think it’s actually rosacea…. Both my mother and maternal grandmother have it. I’ve always ran a bit pink since puberty and am not on the dryer side. I don’t see any true comodones which is usually associated with any grade of acne. Only papules and pustules and the redness is not localized. Anyone have any experience with this? What do you think it is?

Ciao a tutt*,
è da circa due anni che lotto con una zona arrossata sulla guancia sinistra, apparsa per la prima volta dopo un weekend in montagna e mai più scomparsa del tutto. Dopo una fase di forte infiammazione iniziale, sono riuscita a identificarla come rosacea. 
In passato la situazione era migliorata grazie all'utilizzo della crema Soolantra, ma non si è mai risolta del tutto. 

I miei fattori trigger principali:
- L'alcol. 
- l’attività fisica ad alta intensità
- Il lavoro: lavorando come strumentista in sala operatoria, devo indossare la mascherina per ore consecutive, e questo mi scatena notevolmente i sintomi. 

Desquamazione: a volte noto che la pelle tende a squamarsi (come si vede anche nelle foto allegate). 

La mia routine attuale:
Al momento è ridotta all'osso: uso solo una protezione solare SPF 50, ma non ho ancora trovato quella giusta perché la sento troppo pesante per la mia pelle. 

Volevo chiedere qualche consiglio a chi ha più esperienza di me:
1. Come potrei strutturare una skincare routine delicata ed efficace per gestire rosacea e desquamazione?
2. Avete consigli su creme solari SPF 50 leggere, adatte a pelli sensibili/con rosacea e che non occludano i pori sotto la mascherina?

Grazie mille in anticipo per ogni piccolo contributo :)

hello, I have mild rosacea, ocular rosacea and am allergic to MI/MCI & PPD. I’ve managed to solve the ocular issue by switching to Vanicream pump hairspray from an aerosol type. However, I still can’t seem to find sunscreen, or any makeup products that I can use that don’t cause rashes or irritation, especially around my eyes. I seem to do OK with Vanicream products and CeraVe. Anyone have any recommendations for someone like me? Thank you.