Product Description

Zeno is a rechargeable battery powered medical device used to treat mild to moderate acne. It is FDA cleared for safety and developed for home use to treat individual acne pimples in an accelerated period of time.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #102711 in Health and Beauty
• Color: Silver
• Brand: Zeno
• Model: TY99000147
• Released on: 2005-11-08
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 4.50" h x 1.50" w x 1.50" l,

Features

• Clinically proven to reduce and resolve 86% of acne pimples with two to three 2.5-minute applications in a 24-hour period
• Utilizes ClearPoint Technology which delivers a dose of precisely controlled heat to kill acne-causing bacteria
• Each replacement tip cartridge contains 90 treatment cycles
• Portable, hand-held rechargeable device easy to use
• One of the most effective acne treatments available without a prescription

Amazon.com Product Description
The Zeno Acne Clearing Device is a portable, hand-held rechargeable medical device for at-home treatment of acne and inflammatory pimples. This device is clinically proven to make pimples disappear fast. In fact, for treating acne pimples, it's the most scientifically advanced and effective device available without a prescription.

The slim, hand-held Zeno is clinically proven to make pimples disappear fast. View larger.

Zeno's heat-shock kills pimple causing bacteria.

Designed for people with mild to moderate inflammatory acne, the Zeno will help clear up your skin and eliminate pimples from you life. In the case of acne, the P. acnes bacterium is the root cause of 90 percent of all acne pimples. Pimples occur when excess skin oil and flaking skin plug the opening of a hair follicle and create the ideal environment for the bacteria to grow. When the bacteria die, the pimple goes away. The proprietary Zeno technology triggers a heat shock response in microorganisms that cause skin lesions, bringing about the self-destruction of those bacteria and allowing the skin to return to a healthy, normal state. Zeno is designed to safely heat an acne lesion to a pre-set temperature range known to generate heat shock response. Heat shock response is a reaction bacteria have to heat whereby they transcript a number of genes and activate heat-shock proteins. These heat-shock proteins participate in the bacteria's death by causing the bacteria to self-destruct. It may sound like a complicated process, but the results are as easy as they come; simply put, you can kiss your pimples goodbye.

A safe, painless, and effective acne treatment, Zeno can clear up a pimple in just hours. Two to three 2.5-minute treatments spread over 24 hours are sufficient for most pimples. While most other medications can take days, or even weeks, to work, Zeno is often effective after only one treatment. As for side effects, patients included in Zeno's clinical trials experienced little reaction to the low-level heat. Other than some temporary skin redness following a treatment cycle, no other adverse side effects were reported.

Customer Reviews

Great Product - worth the money !!
My daughter has had moderate/severe acne for the last few years - and we have been to the dermatologist seems every few months trying new creams (and yes, even tried Proactive with absolutely NO results). The last visit they wanted to put her on pills, but then I saw an ad on Amazon for this product and wanted to try it out before going that route. This thing is fantastic! The acne does clear up fast - sometimes one day sometimes two days, but it does work. Using this along with her prescription cream, her face has cleared up dramatically. It's the boost her face needed. Well worth the money in my opinion! Anything that helps improve self confidence for someone you love is a great investment!

Common Sense
Judging from the reviews, I see that people don't realize just how different people's skin can be. Like any skin product, this can be hit or miss. In my personal experience, this product is absolutely wonderful. In my best friend's personal experience, this product did NOTHING to help her deplorable skin situation. My advise is to go to a dermatologist's office, make an appointment to the aesthetician, and have her do Zeno tests on you skin. That way, you can determine how well your skin will react to the product. Be informed consumers! Don't buy this unless you have previewed it and are certain it will work for you. Otherwise, it's just money wasted. A lot of money wasted. I hope this helps you guys!

I was skeptical but it worked for me!
I have cystic acne and have done Accutane three times (yes, 3 times) as an adult to get rid of it. Accutane helped but I still get about 1 cyst a month. I'd read that Zeno did not work on cystic acne but decided to give it a try (but kept the receipt, in case it did not work). After 3 months, I have been very impressed with the results. I've used it three times where I could feel an acne cyst beginning (where I have a small painful lump under the skin). I used it morning and evening for three days and the cyst never emerged. I have extremely fair skin so my skin did show some reddening around the treatment area but (a) I expected as much and (b) it was easily covered by a little makeup and (c) it kept the painful cyst from emerging.

A couple of items to note (since expectations are key):
(1) It seems like it takes a long time for the device to be ready to use. The instructions say to press the first button (that is a circle with a line in it) and wait for the clock light to turn green. This takes a little while. As near as I can tell, during this time, the tip is heating to the proper temperature. I thought it was broken because it takes mine a few minutes. Eventually, the light does turn on; it just takes longer than I anticipated.

(2) The treatment time seems like an eternity, even though its only 2 and a half minutes. I suspect that (sad as this is) it is the process of doing nothing for that period of time except holding a device to my face. However, I'm convinced that the entire treatment period is necessary, despite the fact that it always feels like I'm just sitting around doing nothing.

I also, on rare occasion, get regular small whitehead pimples and this product did not seem to work on those. However, I suspect that the reason for this is that by the time they emerge on me, they are already small whiteheads, so superficial that I just scrape them off the skin surface with my fingernail. I suspect that these are already "too far gone" for the device to work.