Archive for December, 2017
Recent Rosacea Blog Posts

Rhofade has achieved some publicity through an award from Allure, the well known beauty magazine brand. The award is called the Allure Beauty Breakthrough Award and was given for `making great strides in educating media and consumers about ongoing facial redness due to rosacea’. Rhofade seems to be generally liked by rosacea sufferers – see Rhofade User Reviews […]

A recent article in Vanity Fair highlights Bye Bye Under Eye from It Cosmetics as the product that launched Jamie Kern Lima’s journey to create a billion dollar beauty brand. Of interest to roacea sufferers is that fact that Kern-Lima’s struggles with covering up her stubborn rosacea lead to the creation of the concealer, and this […]

Add this to your list of weird things about healthcare, but the NY Times has an article today highlighting that in some cases you are better off not to use your medical insurance when filling a prescription. In particular the article notes that for one rosacea sufferer, her prescription of a “lotion called sulfacetamide sodium” […]

In recent years rosacea sufferers have had reason to think that a Vet might have some insights into treatments that could benefit them. In particular the development of ivermectin based treatments like Soolantra have drawn many similarities with the treatments for mange in animals. Vets have been treating demodex infestations with topical and oral ivermectin […]

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey has announced that they will not providing prescription cover for Rhofade, citing that facial redness is a cosmetic issue. Many rosacea sufferers will beg to differ, knowing full well that rosacea us much more than just a red face. Rosacea prescription prices are high, so no doubt […]