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| ASaint 08-24-2001 07:28 AM | It seems that many of you have had great success using Elicina cream on your acne scars. I am purchasing it today (online). Thought I would start a thread dedicated to it, and we can all share our results. However, since I have not even ordered it yet, it will be a month or so before I will be able to post my results. Karen, Veronica, Meg(? I think you used it also)... please post anything you think would be helpful re: Elicina on here. Thanks! |
| Veronica 08-24-2001 10:20 AM | Hi Ange, I used Elicina for about 8 months, loved the stuff. It did not help with breakouts for me, but did not seem to cause any, either. I have heard a few people say it has made them break out, probably due to the 1% glycolic acid that is not added, it naturally occurs in the snail slime. Here are some quotes of mine from another message board while I was still using it (I was very careful to get my permission to quote myself ). "I saw my pores diminish in about 2 weeks and very small scars disappear within about 6 weeks. Also, it got rid of the redness and strange texture caused by the laser resurfacing. After about 2 months, more scars were gone and my pores were almost invisible, and people started commenting and asking me if I had had plastic surgery. I have been using it for about 6 months now, and I would say the large scar is about 50% improved. I still have those darn pits on the sides of my nose, though! I find that I have to stop using the cream for about 4 days every 3 weeks or so, since it is rather drying to my skin." "I had some very small ice pick scars on my cheeks when I started using the Elicina. They are gone now, which is why I thought you would have a good chance of getting rid of yours, but I really don't remember how long it took. I was paying too much attention to the large one and the ones on my nose. I do remember that when they started to heal, I noticed the edges raising up slightly at first (perceptable only to someone like me that stares at the scars in the mirror, as if I could will them away!). Then they seemed to get a little wider and shallower and eventually I couldn't find them any more." |
| Karen 08-24-2001 01:33 PM | Hey ASaint! Still thrilled with the progress I'm seeing with Elicina - after less than a month! I'm using it twice a day, moring and night. At Voy, Veronica mentioned that she would have to stop using it about every 3 weeks for a couple days due to flakiness - I am just now experiencing that and have not used it for the last day and a half. How can my face be both dry and oily at the same time ?! But it is a small sacrifice. For the first 3 weeks I was using it I was sure it wasn't working, nothing seemed to change. Then within 2-3 days, it was like the icepick scars just started filling in! It was amazing, because I pretty much resigned to the fact that this was just another thing that was going to fail me, just like everything in the past. I have yet to see any improvement for the larger scars, but judging by what happened with Veronica, and seeing that my skin is reacting in much the same way hers did, I have faith that they will improve. At first I thought it was just my imagination, but now I know it is not. No matter what light I look at my reflection in, it looks MUCH BETTER. This is the miracle that I have been looking for, and I hope it will do the same for you!!! I am so glad that you are ordering it ASaint! with hope & love, Karen |
| speedy 08-24-2001 10:54 PM | I have never heard of Elicina. Does it work well with fading hyperpigmentation left by scars? I have several that are flat, but are still very dark red and unsightly. I tried something called Kelocote for a month, but it did very little at fading the areas. |
| ASaint 08-25-2001 07:33 AM | OK, great! thanks for putting your archives re: your response to Elicina, Veronica! I had never seen those before on Voy, perhaps because I did not begin my posts until this summer and did not go too far back into the archives... Karen and V... so, your icepick scars...you say they are/were small? My scars tend to be large, but not very deep. Some of them run in lines which turn into creases when I smile..similar to wrinkles, but they aren't. Some of them are round, and perhaps the size of a pencil eraser, but not deep, as I said before. do you have any scars that meet that description, and if so, did the Elicina work for those? Thanx! |
| ASaint 08-25-2001 07:35 AM | Seth... Here's a web site for you to learn more about Elicina... |
| Veronica 08-25-2001 11:19 AM | Seth, yes, the Elicina seems to work very well for hyperpigmentation. I had awful redness and a kind of pebbly texture to my skin from CO2 laser, also some marks left by more recent pimples. It seems to heal any kind of damage. I also tried Kelocote - it's like those silicone sheets (which I also tried) in a tube. The silicone (at least the sheets) does seem to help for raised scars (hypertrophic, keloid), but does nothing for pitted scars or red/brown marks. Ange, the ice pick scars it removed were 2mm or smaller in diameter, but seemed very deep to me. These were the ones on my cheeks. If your wider scars aren't very deep, I had some superficial ones like that that were also removed. I wish you patience and luck with it, Ange! [ August 25, 2001: Message edited by: Veronica ] |
| Karen 08-25-2001 01:15 PM | Elicina Update: Day 30. Hey Ange, if you don't mind, I'd like to use this category to chart my progress with elicina. I'd like to have that, and I figure it may help others as well. So today, the icepick scars look just a bit worse than yesterday, because yesterday the skin was very tight because I had been using the elicina for nearly a month and it tends to make your skin very taut because of the glycolic acid. I stopped using it for a couple days so the skin is about back to normal. I'd say that there is about a 50% improvement in the icepick scars. They were small, but some were deep. The deepest ones looked black in the center - like a piercing. Now they just look like a slight intendation in the skin. Ange, I do have some scars that sound like yours, and they haven't been helped yet (that is, not that I can tell). But I think they will be, because this stuff actually forms new skin, Ange. There IS skin where there was not before. I think it will just take a little more time, like it did for Veronica. Veronica, I've got these little tiny bumps around my nose, I think they've been there for about 2 weeks. I figured they would go away, but, not yet. They look like they're setting up camp! I figure they must be a result of the elicina, because I've never really seen anything like it before on my face. It's on my cheeks around my nose, and not really visible in most lights. They are a little darker than the skin around them, and very tiny. I remember you talked about dirt getting trapped under the skin - do you think that's what it is? Do you have any recommendations on what I should do, or do you think I just have to live with it as long as I am using the elicina? Well, thanks for listening yall, and thanks in advance for the info Veronica (you're always so helpful!). |
| Veronica 08-25-2001 01:58 PM | Karen, about the bumps, I forgot to mention one of the side-effects of snail slime. You know those little antennae snails have on their heads......Just Kidding Those sound just like those sandy bumps that plagued me, that's all I had before Wai's diet (because my previous diet got me down to those). Mine did go away on the diet, even though I was still using Elicina at the time. I don't know what to say for yours, maybe they will also go away as you continue on the diet, I sure hope so. If they don't, it's probably because of the 1% glycolic acid in the cream. The drying is bad for two reasons - the dead skin itself can clog the pores and also your oil glands try to compensate for the lack of moisture by producing more oil. |
| speedy 08-25-2001 02:31 PM | Thanks for the information guys. I will give it a try. I have also heard that MSM is good for reducing scars; has anyone tired this as well? |
| Karen 08-25-2001 02:41 PM | Thanks Veronica, I figured as much about the drying- learned about that long ago by using 'oil absorbing' astringents. But I think it's a necessary evil for the time being. Hopefully between the Wai diet and the elicina I will find a happy medium between scar reduction and keeping acne at bay. Fingers crossed! |
| ASaint 08-26-2001 03:09 PM | <<Karen, about the bumps, I forgot to mention one of the side-effects of snail slime. You know those little antennae snails have on their heads......Just Kidding>> Veronica, you are a hoot! LOL! Well ya'll (Karen, you've got another southerner on board here!), I hope I don't break out even more on the elicina. I'm already plauged by little bumps that won't go away... I'm wondering if it's actually a rash? Or is it just chronic acne? Whatever the case...it's annoying. I have some interesting info. to share about Accutane that my brother's wife told me today. I'll post it under "Accutane" thread.... |
| ASaint 08-26-2001 03:11 PM | P.S. (I always tend to think of more to say after sending my posts..sorry!) Seth...what exactly is MSM? |
| speedy 08-26-2001 04:22 PM | Asaint, MSM is organic sulfur and stands for Methylsulfonylmethane. There are tons of links on it if you do a search. I have heard a lot of great things about it, but haven't used it really all that much. Has anyone here had any experience with MSM? |