Hi everyone, I don't post often but I just wanted to share some of my results from Body Bleach serum by Rare Extracts. I don't know how many people have tried this already, but it seems to be working somewhat for me. I am brown skinned Cuban/African American... I've only been using for about a week now, but I am starting to see some results already. Following the advice of someone else who had posted before, I also purchased seaweed soap to help the process out. I was unaware at the time that Rare Extracts also sells seaweed soap, so I had already purchased from another website, Bodiesbydesign.com (I think thats it... Going off of memory right now)... Anyway, I use that at least once a day.. I know some seaweed soaps are meant to help people lose weight.. I didn't want that kind because I'm already small... so the Bodiesbydesign kind seemed like a good choice. Anyway, I use the soap to exfoliate my skin and then afterwards, I apply the Body Bleach... I was using the seaweed soap on my face too for a while, but I'm pretty sure thats what made my face break out, so I stopped using it on my face. Now I use Olay Regenerist Thermal Skin Polisher on my face, and then apply the bodybleach. I think exfoliators (since they slough off dead skin cells) help the serum to penetrate the skin better and get better results. But since they say it is best to use the Body Bleach 2x a day (and i don't want to overuse the Olay stuff), I just wash with regular facial soap and water at night and then apply the serum. I am also thinking of getting some kind of a sugar scrub or something, to see if that would help the absorption as well. Now, like I said, its only been about a week so its hard to tell a LOT yet... but I do see SOME results... the skin on my body is appearing a little lighter.. and on my face, I notice small light patches... it doesn't really look bad, but I can just see in some places that my skin is getting lighter already.. I'm assuming it will all even out... This is just my assumption, but skin cells probably regenerate over a period of so many days (at least that's what I gathered from the Olay Regenerist stuff), so when that happens, I will probably notice even better results. But so far, so good. Just letting everyone know. I will keep you updated if I see any other DRASTIC changes!