alcohol = BIG no-no

also, I think Dan said somewhere on the regimen info that toners are basically crap and unnecessary. I'm sure someone will say as much too, but in my experience its a waste.

Toners are very drying especially one with alcohol. If you are doing DKR and want to use a toner in hope it will help dryness, it will only make it worse. Also this neutrogena pore refining toner contains SD alcohol so it renders the AHA/ BHA in it useless. You might be better of using a AHA moisturizer. Cool as kim deal who is a big fan of DKR uses Neutrogena healthy skin lotion that has AHA.

I realize this post is old but from what I have heard alcohol can help some products penetrate the skin better. On the other hand they can be totally drying. I have never heard of SD alcohol rendering Salicylic acid useless. I think it's actually in a lot of Salicylic acid peels. I have also heard that Salicylic acid isn't very water soluble. It is, however, alcohol soluble. That's just my two cents.