Thursday Plantation Tea Tree Blemish Stick

Review for Thursday Plantation

Tea Tree Face Wash for Acne Tea Tree and Witch Hazel Toner Tea Tree Face Cream Tea Tree Blemish Gel Tea Tree Blemish Stick

My 16 year old son who has always struggled with acne began using this approx 6 weeks ago (5 March 14). He has written the review.

I really like the colour of the labeling/packaging – the green gives it a nice natural look. The size of the products are great – not too large, but they do last a long time.

Face Wash When the nozzle is pressed down the product foams up instantly in your hand. This makes the application very easy. I have just left it on my skin while in the shower, then rinsed off. The fragrance of the tea tree is very appealing. The Face Wash leaves your skin feeling really nice and soft (not dry at all). Having used this product every day sometimes twice a day, for the past 6 weeks, given the weight of the bottle, I imagine I haven’t even used half of the bottle – so it goes a VERY long way.

Tea Tree and Witch Hazel Toner – I have been applying this product with a make up pad which makes application nice and easy. It is very refreshing to use and gets rid of any excess grime missed with the face wash.

Tea Tree Face Cream I use this straight after the toner, it makes my skin feel light and soft if you know what I mean. The container has only just lasted me 6 weeks and that was being very careful. It does feel a little greasy on my skin.

I am a part time tennis coach so am out in the sun a lot – I have to use sunblock on a daily basis. This seems to really make my skin / acne more pronounced. I am careful to cleanse my skin as soon as possible to get rid of the sunblock.

After two weeks of using the product, I noticed a real change in my skin. It was less firey and the spots were not so noticeable. This did change though when using sunblock – this made it flare up again.

I used the Blemish Gel and Spot Stick on the spots that really stuck out. This took the redness away pretty much overnight.

During the trial my acne never really came to major white heads which I have had in the past. These products seemed to keep things under control. It definitely hasn’t got rid of the problem, but I guess just managing it a little better. I don’t look like the kid from the Pizza shop anymore.

I have really enjoyed trialling the products and hope my review is of help to other acne sufferers.

I've been struggling with acne for 15 years and I make it quite loud and clear how passionate I am about anything acne related, so seeing BR offering the acne trial I just had to jump. Natural products, trialling in the safety of my own environment, win win for me.

First impression: I loved the lipgloss look of the blemish stick and immediately it no longer felt like an acne battle I was getting into but nothing more than beauty treatment for skin. Its hard for me to say beauty and acne in the same sentence because my acne makes me feel ugly and hideous but opening this box just put a lovely smile in my heart. Its a strong pungent smell and I felt like I was in an aromatherapy shop.

First use: I applied to the most prominent pimples I had to make it easier for me to keep track on whether the pimples were subsiding or not. I love the cooling effect of the gel. I applied with my applicator stick directly to my pimples (obviously not any that were open or pussy) and did not rub it into my skin. I just simply allowed it to dry naturally. The pimples I applied it to, were quite tingly but no burning. I applied this over the cream at night.

Week 1: Sadly I could not focus on the original pimples I started out with because my face decided to plot against me and have an acne explosion. The blemish stick however provided such cooling and soothing benefits and lots of relief to the pimples. It was mostly acting like a cooling gel instead of a treatment in this week.

Week 2: Now the stick is starting to work as a spot treatment. My breakouts werent as bad and the stick was helping to draw out the redness from my skin. I used it at night directly after the face wash to ease the pimples.

Week 3: I had the 3 worse and most painful bolts on my nose and after 2 days in the morning... they were completely gone. And day 21, NO ACNE.

Week 4: I didnt need it as often because I was only getting a few breakout and they werent painful, but when I got this new acne after 2-3 days it was dried out.

Week 5: I only had to use it twice in the week and day 34 I had no acne. No pimples!

Week 6: Hardly used because my acne is now at bay and I dont feel the need to use this when I dont have painful bolts that I need gone very fast.

This is by no means a cure for acne, but a good topical treatment when you want to target a few pimples and have them dry out overnight or within a few days. I will keep using this as I love the benefits that it provides to really big, painful pimples.

Unfortunately this product in general did not deliver, to start with the packaging - For me personally I didnt like the idea that you had to stick the swab on your face dip it back in, then use it again on another spot, sure you could clean the swab every single time after each use but 1- I am a very busy girl and 2 - how can I be sure I have rid the swab of all bacteria? Because that is what a blemish really is, isnt it? A build up of bacteria on our face and with the blemish stick I felt I was just spreading that bacteria over my face. It started to show, some days I would use the blemish stick on a particularly rather big "spot" and found by the next morning this spot had built an army with three more spotty friends.

The smell was not desirable as well, each time I pulled the tube out it reminded me of the days back in primary school when I had to use tea-tree shampoo to rid my hair of nits!

All in all I would not recommend this product as I found it very unhygienic if anything. Overall it just didnt do what it said it would, by all means im not knocking Thursday Plantation as they have some other very good products, especially for my other fellow acne sufferers - They just unfortunately made a wrong turn when designing this product!

This is an easy to use blemish stick, it comes in a lipgloss type tube with a sponge applicator. I dab the applicator on my finger first with the product, rather than using it straight on my face and putting back in the tube. It is tea tree scented, but not as strong as the medicated gel. It gives my acne a wee tingle, but has definitely reduced my overall acne. I use this one for day time, as it's not as potent or strong smelling as the gel, and also isn't as shiny or thick. It's a thinner formula, and easy to apply makeup over top. I've definitely seen results from using these products, and will continue to use them.

I gotta say I was really excited for this product. I usually use LUSH's Grease Lightning to dry out spots and pimples. So I was hoping this would maybe be better.

But to my disappointment, when I opened the box I saw that the dispenser was a wand! OH NO! Now you really do not want to use a wand on your pimples and then put the wand back in the tube with all the bacteria from your pimples.

What I ended up doing it dabbing some on the back of my hand and then using my clean fingers to put the product on my pimples/acne.

After I while it was getting harder and harder to get out the product from the tube with the wand. I still have plenty of product left in my tube but I just can not get any out with the wand at all.

The product itself didn't seem to help much at all. I gave it a fair go and used it for a few weeks on my pimples and acne together with the rest of the Thursday Plantation line. Because they all compliment each other I really thought this would work but no not for me. It was average for me and I think I will stick with LUSH's Grease Lightning.

About Me

Let me start off by sharing a bit about my skin. I have very oily and acne prone skin. I've had acne for more than 10 years and have been on every drug, cream and face wash you can imagine. Things tend to work for me for around a month and then the acne returns. I believe my acne is hormonal and before using this product it was moderate in severity.

Results

I've used this product a few times over the 3 weeks I've been trialling it. It hasn't made any difference to my acne. I use it during the day to apply to new spots that are forming. I don't like the fact that you're double dipping with the wand as you apply it to acne and then put it back in the gel. As a result of this I usually apply it beside a pimple and then use a finger to put it in place. I much preferred using the Medicated Gel in the same range.

Would I recommend it?

This product might be good for those that get the occasional deep acne spots, in which case you could apply this every few hours to try and bring the pimple to the surface. In other cases I would not recommend it for hygiene reasons.

Nuts & Bolts

Consistency- This is an invisible gel that is about as thick as lip gloss.

Application- It's easy to apply, just dot onto acne.

Coverage-I usually use this as a spot treatment during the day.

Longevity- Based on how much I've used so far I would estimate this product would last for around a year.

Packaging- The packaging is good but I think it's gross using the wand applicator on acne and then putting it back into the product.

As a product the Thursday Plantation Tea Tree Blemish Stick has a great method of application (I love the blemish stick) and a great consistency, but I could not see any noticeable difference in the speed of healing of blemishes between using this product and using nothing.

The Tea Tree Blemish Stick did exactly what it said it would. When you get a breakout, whip this out, swipe it over the problem area (using the handy little applicator), the gel stings for a second then dries really quick, and you can continue with whatever you were doing. I found it reduced redness and prevented the breakout from getting any bigger. Will definitely buy this again!