Originally Posted by PrincessAlisa

Hi, i use monobenzone also. I wanted to get lighter (Mariah Carey's complexion).So i've been using it for a week and 3 days and i love the results!It's so wonderful,i've lightened up a few shades already.It does make you itch at times but i love it!!!It's like a dream come true.Right now,i'm a caramel complexion and i plan to continue using untill i accheive my goal.There are a lot of scared people out there, but i'm not scared,what i am scared of, is wasting my money on products that Don't work.I did enough of that, and i finally found a product that works.And it's safe because doctors prescribe it. I make a lotion out of my monobenzone.I use an all natural lotion base from skinactives.com and avocado oil from Alpinenaturals.com to make a lotion using 40% mono that will last me a month.The avocado oil penetrates to the deeper layers of the skin so it delivers the monbenzone deep and it moisturizes so that your skin won't be dry.I've been getting flirty looks from many guys. I think the key to not getting patchy is to even out the most discolored areas first and then apply to your whole body until you accheive desired lightness.This is not for everyone, you have to Really Want it! Also,make sure to use sunscreen so that you don't get back discolored.Wow,this is a product that i truly feel happy about. And the reason why micheal jackson looks the way he does, is because he has had many plastic surgerys on his nose and he kept bleaching his self and didn't stop.He wanted to look the way that he looks!

Originally Posted by pkennedy1990

I'm in Canada too, and unfortunately, the one maker of it, ICN Canada, is very hard to get to actually SEND it to you. Even Wal-Mart pharmacy got the runaround from them!

The company is in St-Laurent, Quebec, by the way, if you want to look them up in the phone book or on superpages.ca.

Persistence pays off. It's even hard to get the overseas manufacturers to ship it here to Canada. Some of them don't know how to label the package so that Customs Canada doesn't open it and confiscate it. It's not "illegal" to ship to Canada per se, but they have to label it "gifts" or "vitamin products" or "health food product" or something like that in order to get it by Customs unopened. A lot of places abroad don't know that or don't want to be bothered shipping to Canada because of that.

Even with a prescription I got a medical Intern to write for me, and the runaround from the pharmacy at Wal-Mart, it took ICN Canada three months to get me ONE dinky little tube of the 20% strength, for about $80 including taxes.

Originally Posted by lighterrr

mono can take years to fully depig, i know someone that has been using mono for over 6 years now, i got white spots small ones one my neck,chest,arms and now my face i used mono for almost a year and had to stop, becase ot just made me SPOTTED, i even out with high hq, and now im using something natural to maintain the colour i got, my advice stay away from mono

Originally Posted by Shaadipr

My hand on other hand is getting darker. I think it's because I go jogging in the evening and do not strong enough sunblock. I only been using suncscreen spf 30. I am going to change it to spf 80 and see if there is a change.