If Tend Skin is too costly for you, look into Follique. It is just as good (if not better) and you get more ounces per bottle for about the same price.

How are the chemists doing with their home made versions?

i have scars and pitting caused by long-term tweezing and also plucking to remove ingrown hairs which keep coming back. does tend skin (homemade or commercial) affect these scars & pitting or make them worse? also, can tend skin be applied on the underarm and facial area? would appreciate anyone's kind help asap as this problem of ingrown hair and scarring has been causing grief for a long time. thanks!

hi!
This is my first post here.. I'm very interested in home made tend skin, but it seems that where i live (italy) isopropyl alcohol isn't sold to normal people..
i believe it's because you can use it to make bombs or something like this..
so.. what can i use instead of it? please tell me there's something else i can use! maybe some other type of alcohol?
ok.. sorry for my bad english =)

Hi, you can buy rubbing alcohol in the UK from E-bay. However, it is rather more expensive than it should be. The cheapest I found was a 5 litre container for £18.00 (including postage). Just type 'rubbing alcohol' into the search box.
Regards
Kirsten

I've heard that in the UK, 'Surgical Spirits' are the same thing as Isopropyl alcohol in the US. I don't know what percentage of iso it contains though.

Outside of that, I might suggest a bottle of Amber-190 or Everclear. I haven't seen Everclear myself, but I know for a fact that I've gotten a bottle of Amber-190 vodka - it's 95% alcohol. I've read on this forum somewhere that it might be bad to put on skin if it's over a certain percentage of alcohol, but here in the US, they sell bottles of 91% iso-alc which I'm quite sure is ok to put on the skin..
If getting Amber-190 I would add some water before putting it on the skin. If adding it in combination with aspirin to make your own 'tend skin', just err on the side of more water.

You may want to check into the actual percentage that's safe for the skin though, as I'm no doctor.

Hope this helps.