So I mentioned the kittens in another post.  (They all have homes now.)  I think I mentioned too that one night last week after I had gotten ready for bed, my neighbor called to say that one of our other neighbors was outside playing with the kittens and he had totally calmed down this kitten that was so scared it kept spitting at me.  It was adorable to see the big gruff man holding the tiny kitten that he nicknamed “spits” and to see the kitten all calm. 

But enough about the kittens, the point is, I had already gotten ready for bed, which of course meant I had washed my face and put a healthy amount of cream on my troubled acne spots.  Maybe I put on too much.  More isn’t always better and in this instance it was a pain in the neck because I was trying to get outside to see my gruff neighbor with the cuddly kitten and I was having trouble washing it all off!!!  I find that perhaps in my effort to be proactive and really get the acne to go away I tend to equate more cream with more effectiveness.  But I’m not sure this is the case.  When the cream is slathered on like that, does that caked up cream really do anything more than if I put just a small amount on.  To answer my own question, no I don’t think it does.  A small amount will work and I will save money, because I won’t be wasteful!