allure wrote:Oh Sara thanks for your thoughts. I read somewhere where someone was doing this. I was not about to embark on something that could be potentially dangerous, but wanted to find out more about the chemical reactions etc. What I was thinking is getting more for my buck and having my mixture last a lot longer. Again I would not venture out on unsolicited territory with proper research. LOL

allure wrote:GG do you want me to blow up my house? LMAO!! I would rather let the experts do this for me. I am not able to do it because of the kids and my nosy hubby. Seeing that ethanol promotes absorption, I might have to get it because the mix of my MQ and eucerin with ra stinks to high heaven. Good gosh...rotten eggs! I am thinking that it is urea in the eucerin along with the MQ that is wreaking havoc on my nostrils! I can't wait to finish the darn thing now....but my goodness I am getting even better results than my first mixture!

sara wrote: I am not sure why you want to do this allure? Retin a with MQ works, been done, and studied extensively, HQ with retin a also shown to be effective.

Now Mq is stronger than Hq, hence faster results, like mono is faster than Mq, why would you want to mix mq with Hq? It is like mixing mono with Mq?? There is no point, plus mixing two different ingredients which have not been studied to be mixed, you risk other complications, sometimes things work better alone, once you mix them other things might happen.

sara wrote:That could be right GG, Gel has high alcohol content ,I think the effectiveness of solage is due its high alcohol content, although it is mainly 2% but it has 77% alcohol, which means all the 2% is totally absorbed.

I tried high alcohol content with my mono, not that high but up to 20% but alcohol and mono is very strong stuff, it is very irritant so I cut down but I know the speed was much faster with high alcohol content.

based on my research and the people I've spoken too, um in theory...well not only in theory there is evidentiary support for this, however finding the exact statistics have proven to be rather difficult lol as no one really cares about funding studies to find a safe and effective way to depigment regular skinned individuals!

but using mono with in retin A should produce a significat differnce in the results as to just using mono on its own...I'm not sure if using hydroquinone with it would do much...it might help then again it might not...but um...ya I'm gonna expierment with mono a little bit cause there is some stuff I really want gone...however mono travels through the anotomy...so lets say you apply some on your leg..ya that could start to depigment but so could some other random spot on your body...

however in theory again...since tretinoin acts as a pentran and speeds up cell turn over...it could speed up the results of mono to the point where you could accomplish your goal before there is any damage and appart from that tretinoin does wonders for damage control where hydroquinone, steroids, and mequinol are concered...who's to say it wont do the same for monobenzone! remember this stuff has never been tried before...again no one cares about a bunch of dark skinned people lightening their skin, except for Dr. thienna who is really making a furtune off of poor misinformed people! sulfur will NOT lighten your skin to a noticable extent period!

but yes! this is an exciting a trip! have you all started with your mono yet...cause I'm gonna start really soon I gonna use it with tretinoin...

if you all have...how has it been going for you?

Both Mq and Mono dissolve in ethanol, I know that Mq is less harsh than mono but trying high alcohol content is better option for faster, the problem is that most of the Mq you guys get it is already peppered. Adding alcohol on top will just not work.

MAHARANI wrote:HI sweetie Enticing,


Only this morning I was going to pm ondine and see if she had heard from you and lo and behold, I find you here !!

sara is away on holiday, so you may have to wait a while to get a response I am afraid. I know that there are others interested in mono, but I believe at present she is the only one who has actually used it here.

Don't worry I won't shoot you for yor choice. I am sure you have done your reading and understand the problems asscociated. Besides I know what you are like in terms of making up your mind. I also trust that you have managed to find a reliable legit source for your mono.

Let us know how you get on.

dizzellz112 wrote:Why is it so hard to find real before and after pics of people claiming to have sucessfully used monobenzone??


Oo Enticing Good Luck

KIM wrote:


enticing could you explain what the neoprosone is for. I am still deciding on what to try on my face. I was thinking about trying makari again with retin A but have also thought about the retin A with hq, but have not come across this neoprosone.