CLn® Skin Care Blog

Key takeaways For skin prone to hidradenitis suppurativa, the right daily cleanser is gentle, fragrance-free, and easy to use on tender areas. In a real-world study of 145 people with...

Endurance athletes face skin challenges that most body washes were never designed to address. Chafing, saddle sores, sweat-driven folliculitis, and friction breakdown over long distances require a different approach. Here...

Standard body wash and CLn SportWash are both cleansers, but they work through completely different chemistry and are designed for different skin situations. Here is a science-backed look at what...

Most athletes shower immediately after training, but still get skin infections. The problem usually is not whether they shower, but how long the cleanser stays on their skin. Here is...

Sodium hypochlorite and hypochlorous acid are related but distinct ingredients that act differently on the skin. Here is what athletes need to know about both, how CLn uses each one,...

Locker rooms and gym showers harbor staph, MRSA, dermatophytes, and viruses that cause serious skin infections in athletes every season. Here's what the research says is actually living on those...

Football helmets and pads trap heat, sweat, and bacteria against skin for hours at a time, creating near-ideal conditions for helmet acne, forearm rashes, and folliculitis. Here's what's actually driving...

Those red, itchy bumps that keep appearing after training in compression gear are most likely folliculitis, not acne. The two conditions look nearly identical but respond to completely different treatments....

Staph and MRSA are the infections that pull MMA fighters and grapplers off the mat for weeks, and they're entirely preventable. Here's the complete post-training skin hygiene protocol used by...

Ringworm and eczema can look nearly identical, red, itchy, and worse after training, but they require completely different treatments, and misdiagnosing one for the other makes both conditions significantly worse....

Standard body wash was designed for everyday hygiene on intact skin, not for the heavy bacterial load a grappler carries off the mat after training. Here's what the science says...

Douglas Krohn, MD By 2017, the situation had gotten to the point that even the New York Times had incorporated it into its national coverage:  Skin infections were dooming athletes...