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I've been bathing my face in this stuff for the past few weeks, trying to figure out if it will actually give me back the creamy complexion that ironically, I had as a teenager, but seem to have lost in the battle against adult acne. Apparently, there have been quite a few studies done linking betadine to clearing up acne vulgaris, but I am seeing zilch here,  people. Has anyone ever tried this stuff? I have to say, in all my begging derms to tell me the secrets behind clear skin, I've never heard betadine come up before, but as always, I'm willing to give it a try. (Personally, I found it in a pharmacy overseas, where it's often prescribed as an O.T.C. zit fighter.) The idea behind it is that it's basically iodine (that be Monkey's Blood to you Southerners out there), which is an antiseptic--or germicide, which means to kill bacteria, the culprit behind those uglies in the first place. I'm going to try it for one more week and see what happens...