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Topical OTC use. Benzoyl peroxide is used at 2.5-10% in gels, creams, and washes, applied to acne-prone areas once or twice daily; lower strengths (2.5-5%) are usually as effective as 10% with less irritation. There is no oral or systemic dose — it is not ingested. It is often combined with a retinoid (e.g. adapalene) for greater effect. This library does not provide an ingestion protocol.

Any time

Leave-on gel/cream (2.5-5%) or a fixed combination with a retinoid

Prescription topical. Bimatoprost 0.03% is applied once daily as a thin line to the skin of the UPPER eyelid margin at the lash base (not to the lower lid, and avoid getting it in the eye), using a fresh applicator per eye. Continuous use is needed to maintain results. Use under a clinician, especially if you have glaucoma or take prostaglandin eye drops. There is no oral or systemic use. This library does not provide an ingestion protocol.

Evening

Bimatoprost 0.03% solution (Latisse) with single-use applicators, under a clinician

• For topical (skin) use only — not for ingestion, not for injection
• Known allergy/sensitivity to benzoyl peroxide (true allergic contact dermatitis is uncommon but possible)
• Application to broken, severely inflamed, or sunburned skin until healed

• Topical retinoids degraded by oxidation (some tretinoin formulations)
• Other irritating actives (acids, other retinoids)

• Apply only to the upper eyelid margin — keep out of the eye and off the lower lid; not for ingestion
• Known allergy/sensitivity to bimatoprost or prostaglandin analogs
• Active eye/eyelid infection or inflammation

• Prostaglandin-analog glaucoma drops (latanoprost, travoprost, bimatoprost)