Mario Badescu Skincare

About 3 or 4 months ago now I had a terrible breakout. And the bout of junk food didn't help either, so upon hearing and reading so many raves about this range from so many sources, I decided to give it a shot.
I got 4 products, being the drying cream, drying mask, buffering lotion and the healing cream.

Drying cream

It smells really bad. Kind of like a strong mustard? Iunno it'll freak you out for a bit but then you get used to it. This was my favourite product out of all the ones I tried. I felt like it did it's job sufficiently. However if you apply for too many days or too much at one time, you'll end up with a dry flaky patch, so beware. The only gripe I have with this is that it sort of stopped working after awhile. Since I haven't used it in about a month, if I apply a little bit now it works partially as good as originally, but the effect certainly died down for me. Boo.

Drying mask

This smells like rotten cigarettes to me, but again, you'll grow to deal with it. I'm not sure if this really worked for me. Upon advice, I applied some buffering lotion to cystic pimples (yuck) and then waited for it to dry, then put on the drying mask, leave for 15 mins, rinse with warm water, then apply more buffering lotion before moisturising. I mean I suppose it kind of worked, and I will still use it if I get another crazy breakout, but it's not on regular rotation for weekly masks for me. It dries really fast and makes your face feel tight, which I like. But I'm kind of on the fence with this one, I wouldn't say it's necessary and not anything a decent mud mask will do.

Buffering lotion

It was okay. Nothing to rave home about. You need to shake the bottle up so the white stuff sitting on the bottom is completely incorporated into the liquid on top. I think this aswell as the drying cream if applied too many times really dried out my skin, and left an ugly mark where there had been a blemish before. It did work on SOME of my deep, sore blemishes, but not on others. So I didn't really have time for it to be picky and choosy as to which pimple it wanted to dry out and which it didn't.

Healing cream

I liked this for soothing out the stupid dry patches the other products left. It's thick and creamy however I'm not sure about how much healing it was doing. None of the products particularly sped up the drying/healing process immensely. I'll still use this from time to time with the odd monthly pimple now, and it kind of calms the inflammation in ways.


Overall
If it came down to it, I would purchase these products again, because I do feel like they made a significant enough improvement in my skin during the time when it was at it's worst. I'm finding these products are lasting me for ages, and especially with the Australian retail of these, they would want to. My only gripe with these products are, and it's mostly my fault, is they were almost too drying. Mind you, I did purchase 3 out the 4 products to dry out blemishes. So next time I will take that into consideration and up my skins moisture levels if I were to use these full time again.
I think Mario Badescu skincare is sold in Kit stores in Australia, and on their website. I'd suggest maybe looking into purchasing these from the States, just because it's a lot less expensive than Australian retail. I think www.kissandmakeupny.com online store sells mario badescu and ships worldwide, however I don't reccomend getting liquids shipped, I've had the buffering lotion spill out on me.

I would reccomend these products to people who are at their wits end with their skin and want to try something new. I wouldn't reccomend these products for continuos everyday use, especially with sensitive skin types. Keep it as minimal as you can!