The Zenmed acne treatment review resulted in a fair grade.

The Zenmed Acne treatment “kit” is good and bad in some respects.  Good is the fact that they don’t use Benzoyl Peroxide, but instead they use Salicylic Acid as their big “acne fighter”.   This ingredient is far from the best as far as curing acne, but at least it’s safe.  When you buy the Zenmed kit you get:

• 1 bottle of their cleansing gel
• 1 bottle of their acne treatment gel
• 2 bottles of pills that supposedly clean out your system

The pills that are used in acne treatments, and Zenmed is no exception, are often a waste of time, and WAY over priced.   If you look at this kit, the majority of it is in the pills… 2 bottles, compared to 1 of the others.   However, the cost of the pills can be compared to antioxidant pills in any health food store.  Truthfully, you shouldn’t pay more than $9 for pills of this kind.   So, the inclusion of the pills in their acne system is basically tricky little way to make consumers think they’re getting more bang for their buck.  What you really get though, is a nice cleanser and acne gel, and two bottles of useless pills.

Let’s look at how the cleanser and acne gel work: As far as killing bacteria that causes acne, you’re not getting much power here.  If your acne is serious, you will need to find a more powerful key ingredient that can kill the acne-causing bacteria.  However, Zenmed took some great steps as far as treating the “other” side of acne.  By “other”, we mean the redness and irritation that goes along with the acne.   This is what makes the acne so visible, and is actually, more important to many people than curing the cause of the acne itself.   By blending Vitamin C, Vitamin B5,  Allointin, and Aloe Vera, the zenmed products will do a pretty good job to calm down your skin and get the redness and inflammation to become less.

The cost is  a bit of a problem, however. At $99 or so, it is one of the more expensive acne treatments on the market.  The main problem is that the pills are included, and they don’t do anything for you that you’re going to directly notice in your skin.  So,  you’re paying $99 for a 2 product acne treatment, and frankly, that’s too much.    Considering the fact that the main acne killing ingredient is just Salicylic Acid,  we feel that a more appropriate price would be $50 or so.

Overall our grade is decent, but not great. On the side of killing the acne causing bacteria, we grade them about a C.  However, their ingredients that calm and soothe acne-prone skin are pretty nice, which boosts the grade up to a B.  The price, however, knocks a few points off, and we end up with a C+ for our final grade.