No, and we are proud to say that Sweden is one of the few countries that has outlawed animal testing.

The most common cosmetic chemical that is and has been tested on animals is Benzoyl Peroxide. Benzoyl peroxide caused tumors in the animals tested as well as promoting free radicals and damage to DNA. Benzoyl Peroxide is the most common acne drug today and is the active ingredient in 95% of all acne products. In addition to its known ability to promote papilloma and carcinoma formation in the dermis of animals, benzoyl peroxide is also able to promote the formation of melanotic tumors in the dermis of animals.

Free trials within the US are sent USPS 2-3 day Priority Mail for $5.95, you can also choose to send the free trial USPS 3-8 day 1st Class Mail for only $2.95 (enter the promo code "trial") in the shopping cart for the $2.95 1st Class Mail option. There is a customs charge of $10.95 added to the regular $5.95 shipping cost of a free trial shipped to Canada totaling $16.90.

Detailed information concerning the LEROSETT® 21 day free-trial is also available before you place an order or offer your private information. Information is located next to the "Get Your Free Trial Now" button and two more times when your order is shipped. Please note that a "free-trial" is not a "free-sample" however you only have to pay for LEROSETT® if it works, if you do not want to be charged you will need to return the product. With our 21-day free-trial you will receive the "full retail size" of both items, this is a 6 to 8 week supply with a retail cost of $69.00.

It is close to impossible for LEROSETT® not to remove acne, if used as directed often enough and long enough for your particular acne condition LEROSETT® will eventually absorb and remove enough of the oil, dead skin cells, bacteria, toxins and impurities that lay at the root of acne.

If you have used Benzoyl peroxide for an extended period of time your skin may need to wean itself off the drug before your skin can heal and a 100% organic product like LEROSETT® becomes fully effective. It may take a week or two for your skin to wean itself of a strong chemical drug like Benzoyl peroxide and we will gladly add a few additional weeks to your free trial period, just email or call customer service with your request.

If you are one of the very few (less than 3%) that is not fully satisfied with LEROSETT® you will need to cancel the LEROSETT® free-trial within the 21 day free-trial period and then return the LEROSETT® Organic Acne Treatment to avoid being charged the $34 cost of the LEROSETT® Organic Acne Treatment. However, the $35 LEROSETT® Organic Acne Moisturizer is our gift to you for trying the free trial, you will not be charged nor do you need to return this item.

To return the LEROSETT® Organic Acne Treatment you will need a "Return Authorization Number", contact Gunilla of Sweden® before the end of the 21 free-trial period for your RA number, then simply return the item and you will not be charged. We cannot accept return packages marked -return to sender- and all returns must contain customer information within the returned package and the RA number written on the outside of the return package.

To contact customer service for your "RA" number to request a two week free trial extension or to change your shipping intervals please call our toll free number at 866-551-5505 or email us at customerservice@gunillaofsweden.com Offices are closed on weekends and holidays.

We do offer traditional "free samples" these are small packets of products that are included for free when you make a purchase, let us know in the "special instructions" box at checkout with your next regular purchase which samples you would like, we do not offer samples our face wash or toners.

Small sample packs have 2-3 applications and are meant for travel or to test the feel of products. Samples packets do not contain enough product to have any real effect on problem skin like acne, this is why our free trial contains full size products.

Free Trial information is located in multiple areas:

1st) The free trial information is available before you order the free trial. The free trial page of our web site has all the free trial information located next to the (Get Your Free Trial Now Button), this information is openly available before you order your free trial it says (Free Trial Information-Limit one per customer)IN RED FONT

2nd) You will receive a free trial confirmation email the day your free trial is shipped containing all the information needed concerning the free trial and the proper use of the products.

3rd) Your free trial package has an invoice that also contains the free trial information listed on the center of the invoice page.

If an acne treatment works why do you need it sent to you every month?

Good question, --You dont!--Because LEROSETT® works 100% of the time when used in the correct way for your particular acne condition!--As your acne clears Gold Reward Members can choose a longer interval between shipments since their acne is getting better and may not use enough for 6 week intervals. Gold Reward Members can request auto shipments for longer intervals like 8, 10 or up to every 16 weeks, just email or call our customer service to change your automatic shipping interval and as a Gold Reward Member the $35.00 LEROSETT® organic acne moisturizer is always included at no charge.

How do I become a Gold Club Member?
After your 21 day free trial period is over you will automatically qualify as a Gold Reward Member and receive a free $35 LEROSETT® organic acne moisturizer with each additional shipment every 6 weeks or the interval period of your choice from every 4 to 16 weeks. You can cancel anytime but you do need to cancel. To cancel further shipments or to change your shipping intervals please email or call customer service with your request customerservice@gunillaofsweden.com .

Why continue as a Gold Member when you can just order LEROSETT® when you need more?
Only Gold Reward Members receive our $35 LEROSETT® Organic Acne Moisturizer at NO CHARGE and YOU CHOOSE when you get them and how often, no minimums, cancel anytime.

The LEROSETT® trial is the most effective method on the market for achieving clear skin and keeping it that way, long term. As your acne gets better you can change the ship time intervals depending on your skin condition, and our customer service is there to help no matter what.

Yes, LEROSETT® Organic Acne "Clay" Treatment will be damaged if frozen and will not be shipped during extreme cold temperatures due to freezing.

Since LEROSETT® is organic and chemical free there is no anti-freeze elements in the product. If LEROSETT® freezes the water and the clay separates. You can tell if this has happened if only water comes out of the tube or a mixture of clumps and water. You should be able to squeeze out an inch of LEROSETT® onto your hand and have it stay there like a thin toothpaste would stay on your hand without running down your skin. Once LEROSETT® has fully frozen it is destroyed, you cannot shake it back together again.

Freezing can be problematic for some organic products, we usually stop shipments to Canada, Alaska and some northern states during extreme cold periods. If your LEROSETT® has separated and is runny due to freezing we will replace the product once the cold weather has passed for your area and the replacement item has less risk of freezing. Longtime LEROSETT® users often double their orders before each winter to avoid this problem.

All orders are automatically shipped free of charge via USPS First Class mail. USPS Priority shipping is available at check out for $6.95. We also use USPS expedited service. United States Postal Service overnight shipping is considered expedited because it can still take 1-3 days to receive your package. USPS does not deliver on holidays and if you live in a less populated area there may be a delay. If your order is shipped USPS expedited service the day before a holiday the holiday will not be counted as a shipping day. All orders received before 12:00pm noon CST will be shipped the same day, we are closed on weekends. We also have UPS overnight and next day available at check out.

All international shipping costs are US $8.50 for the first item and US $3.50 for each additional item after that.

Skin care systems are counted for each individual item, a four part skin care system will be charged as four items and a three part system will be charges for three items.

The Real Trouble with Most Acne Products Today:

The Sad Fact About Acne Products

It is a sad fact that Benzoyl peroxide and Salicylic acid are the active ingredient in over 95% of all acne treatments. Benzoyl peroxide is proven to generates free radicals damaging cellular DNA causing premature aging and thinning of skin. After decades of testing on animals Benzoyl peroxide was proven to promote papilloma and carcinoma formations as well as melanotic tumors within the dermis "skin" of animals. The FDA has downgraded the safety rating of Benzoyl peroxide with Action (56 FR 37622)
Salicylic acid increases the risk of Reye's Syndrome, a deadly disease that attacks the body's major organs and further animal studies show that birth defects occur at very high dosages of salicylic acid. -Only LEROSETT® is free of all chemicals and side effects while actually healing your skin. DOCTORS ARE ADVISING PREGNANT/NURSING WOMEN TO STOP USING ACNE TREATMENTS THAT CONTAIN BENZOYL PEROXIDE OR SALICYLIC ACID

Addiction to Benzoyl Peroxide and the Effects

One of the main problems with Benzoyl peroxide is that once you start using the drug, it can be hard to stop, like many other drugs there can be serious side effects. Regardless of your skin and your acne you should only use Benzoyl peroxide for a very short period of time. Because if there is a lapse in treatment, bacteria and acne are likely to increase, significantly. Benzoyl peroxide will kill bacteria and may remove some acne, but when you stop using it your acne is likely to come back much worse than it was before and this is the cycle, the benzoyl peroxide cycle. Benzoyl peroxide has also been known to cause dry, itchy skin, redness, flaking, and burning. The dependency factor may be the reason 90% of acne products still use benzoyl peroxide, notice when you see these acne advertisements in magazines or on T.V. they avoid mentioning benzoyl peroxide, but look a bit closer, it's there.

Regardless of celebrity endorsements almost every acne product on the market including Proactive® is still using benzoyl peroxide invented 80 years ago as the active ingredient against acne. Both have significant side effects and neither is necessary for the removal of acne. Most acne sufferers have no idea that benzoyl peroxide is NOT recognized by the FDA as a safe or very effective anti-acne drug.

Many products are even claiming to be revolutionary when the active ingredient is benzoyl peroxide. However BP is not revolutionary since BP was developed by Jack Breitbart of Revlon in the 1920s. In a 1977 study using a human maximization test, 76% of subjects acquired a contact sensitization to benzoyl peroxide. Pure benzoyl peroxide is highly flammable, explosive and toxic.

LEROSETT® has a 97% success rate without the use of drugs or chemicals, when LEROSETT® does not work within the first week we usually find that this relates directly to long term use of benzoyl peroxide. It can take several weeks for skin to wean itself off the drug and continued use can lead to hyper-pigmentation and thinning of skin. Only LEROSETT® has the natural minerals that can stop the cycle of acne by minimizing oil production from the sebaceous glands long term with no side effects.

Skin Damage-Premature Aging and Thinning of Skin

Benzoyl peroxide generates free radicals in the skin. Its effect is similar to unprotected sun exposure. The redness of the skin caused by sun exposure and Benzoyl Peroxide, are both the result of free radicals upon the skin. What this all amounts to is damage to the structure of your skin, and premature aging of the skin. The extent of the damage your skin incurs is related to how much, how often, and for how long you use products containing Benzoyl Peroxide. Often Gunilla of Sweden® customers with acne who have used benzoyl peroxide for over 2 years complain of persistent increased acne symptoms for several months after being weaned of the drug benzoyl peroxide.

Example: Why many skin care professionals will no longer use Benzoyl peroxide

My sister and I are both estheticians and business owners and we have each have been doing professional skincare for 9yrs. We chose Gunilla of Sweden® for our clients because we wanted a result oriented product for acne without using benzoyl peroxide. The reason for no benzoyl peroxide is that clients who had used it were now experiencing hyper-pigmentation and thinning skin so, we really felt strong about weaning them off. When switching them over to LEROSETT® we and our clients have found great success in their battle against acne even the troublesome Adult cystic acne, which for us has helped build a strong trust between us and our clients.
Thank you Gunilla of Sweden.
Sincerely, Heather Ramsey and Jennifer Neves
Estheticians/Business Owners at Alainn Tu Salon and Spa, Sacramento, Ca

Longer Healing Period

Because this ingredient generates free radicals it interferes with and slows the healing process. The red and brown marks that are a part of the acne healing process may last much longer when Benzoyl Peroxide is used. As we now know, repeated exposure to the sun can and does cause skin cancer. It is now currently believed that repeated use of benzoyl peroxide as an acne treatment may have similar effects.

Cancer, FDA Warnings, Tumors and Free Radicals

Benzyol Peroxide has been linked to cancer for a number of years and many research journal entries state "benzoyl peroxide is a free radical-generating skin tumor promoting agent." Performing a word search of the words "benzoyl peroxide cancer" in PubMed in the National Library of Medicine produces 102 articles from medical publications dealing with research aspects of Benzoyl Peroxide and cancer. About two-thirds of the research supports linkage between Benzoyl Peroxide and skin cancer. "In 1995 the FDA changed benzoyl peroxide from a Category I (safe) to a Category III (safety is uncertain) ingredient and stated this action (56 FR 37622) was based on new information that raised a safety concern regarding benzoyl peroxide as a tumor promoter in mice..." Additionally, the FDA charged manufacturers with the responsibility of providing this information to consumers so they could make educated decisions. Many manufacturers and product marketers have not provided this information to skin care professionals so that consumers can be advised of the potential dangers. A more complete FDA statement is below. Use of benzoyl peroxide to control acne may involve side effects and risks that should be considered in making decisions on acne treatment.

Benzoyl peroxide, a widely used free radical-generating compound, promoted both papillomas and carcinomas when it was topically applied to mice after 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene initiation. Benzoyl peroxide was inactive on the skin as a complete carcinogen or as a tumor initiator. A single topical application of benzoyl peroxide produced a marked epidermal hyperplasia and induced a large number of dark basal keratinocytes, effects similar to those produced by the potent tumor promoter 12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol-13-acetate. Benzoyl peroxide, like other known tumor promoters, also inhibited metabolic cooperation (inter-cellular communication) in Chinese hamster cells. In view of these results caution should be recommended in the use of this and other free radical-generating compounds.

Carcinogenesis. 1987 Mar;8(3):479-82. PubMed
“Benzoyl peroxide promotes the formation of melanotic tumors in the skin of 7,12-
dimethylbenz[a]anthracene-initiated Syrian golden hamsters.”
Schweizer J, Loehrke H, Edler L, Goerttler K.

Cancer Res. 1986 Jun;46(6):2863-5. PubMed
Enhanced malignant progression of mouse skin tumors by the free-radical generator benzoyl peroxide.
O'Connell JF, Klein-Szanto AJ, DiGiovanni DM, Fries JW, Slaga TJ.

Science. 1981 Aug 28;213(4511):1023-5. PubMed
Skin tumor-promoting activity of benzoyl peroxide, a widely used free radical-generating compound.
Slaga TJ, Klein-Szanto AJ, Triplett LL, Yotti LP, Trosko KE.

FDA Laws and Regulation, 1995 Benzoyl Peroxide

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) / Department of Health and Human Services "Topical Drug Products Containing Benzoyl Peroxide: Required Labeling" "The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing additional labeling (warning and directions) for all topically-applied acne treatment drug products containing benzoyl peroxide. The warning advises consumers to avoid unnecessary sun exposure and to use a sunscreen when using a benzoyl peroxide product to treat acne..." "The agency classified benzoyl peroxide from its previous status Category I to Category III status. This action (56 FR 37622) was based on new information that raised a safety concern regarding benzoyl peroxide as a tumor promoter in mice and a study that reported that benzoyl peroxide has tumor initiation potential." "FDA evaluated data and information and determined that the studies show that benzoyl peroxide is a skin tumor promoter in more than one strain of mice as well as in hamsters. Although animal data and human epidemiology data are a available, the agency has determined that further studies are necessary to adequately assess the tumorigenic potential of benzoyl peroxide. These studies are currently being conducted. The agency acknowledges that it may take several years for these studies to be completed and analyzed, and for the final determination to be made on benzoyl peroxide's safety." To date studies (which have shown only tumor promotion) have been of short duration (about 52 weeks).

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All LEROSETT® and ÄKTA® products come with recommended directions for use. Since all skin types are different and the directions included are to be considered guidelines for use. We do offer a “Help Desk” page that you can use and our professional staff will be glad to assist you with any of your skin care questions.

Our attractive Gift Box is a Tiffany color powder blue box with a colorful satin ribbon bow and tissue wrapping paper surround the purchased items inside the gift box. Due to customer demand we added this feature to simplify gift giving; however we do not at this time supply a sentiment card.

What you eat, how much you work out, or how you cleanse your face is not the cause of acne. Who gets acne? Anyone can get acne, and it can appear at many different times in your life: as a teenager or as an adult in your 20’s, 30’s and even your 40’s. The truth is that acne is caused by multiple factors related to the delicate balance between your hormones, your lifestyle and your skin.

Every day, your skin produces oil and sheds dead skin cells, when this natural balance is off the result can be acne. For many acne sufferers increased oil production may be a result of hormones, or an inherited predisposition toward blemishes. Acne isn’t caused by what you’re eating or doing but by a combination of factors that allow acne to happen.

Effective acne treatment involves prevention, exfoliation to keep pores clear, absorption of excess oil and minimizing irritation swelling and redness. All this can be done without the use of chemicals and it appears that chemical treatments are much less effective that the organic methods used by Gunilla of Sweden® products. By combining the techniques of climate controlled hydroponics with our proprietary nutrient extraction methods along with the application of heat treated minerals and natural clays Gunilla of Sweden® is the leader in effective High-Content Organic™ skin care.

DISCLAIMER: This information is provided for Educational Purposes Only and has NOT been designed to diagnose, treat or cure any health conditions. Please consult a qualified Health Care Professional with Nutritional and or Medical Training to diagnose your health conditions and avoid self-diagnosis. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration have not evaluated statements about these health topics or any suggested product compositions.

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