CicaCare vs ScarAway

The verdict is in--CicaCare won't stay on my face, either.  I woke up at some point last night to find the strip had slid and bunched up on my face.  I pushed it back in place where it stayed until the morning.  But CicaCare says if at all possible, wear the strip all the time.  That just won't work.  When I try to wear the ScarAway strip during the day, I get preoccupied with whether it's staying in place--and invariably it falls off and I have to hunt for it.  I can't believe I have to mess with this for the next 2-4 months.  That is if I want to have as small a scar as possible on my face.

It's too bad these products don't adhere well to the face--if there's any place where you'd want to minimize a scar, it's on the face.  I have a surgical scar on the side of my left big toe that's still visible, but I don't really care.  Not that much, anyway.  I tried silicon strips there--very difficult for them to adhere, and I think I gave up.  I don't plan to give up on my face.  But I have to be realistic about how many hours a day I can have a strip on my face.

I don't know whether CicaCare holds up any better than ScarAway, since I just got the CicaCare from Amazon.com yesterday.  The CicaCare instructions say a strip should last anywhere from 14-28 days (!).  ScarAway says its strip will last about a week; in reality, they start adhering less well after one day.

The two products are physically quite different.  ScarAway is very thin, and is light brown--looks like a fabric BandAid.  CicaCare is about twice as thick, and is see-through.  It's more squishy and gel-like, and hard to tell the difference between the two sides (sticky and non-sticky).  Also, you supposedly can wash the CicaCare strip and reapply it right away; the ScarAway strip has to dry (which is why I have 3 different strips I'm using--two to trade off, and a third that's twice as wide as the other two.  The wider one doesn't stay on any better than the narrower ones do).

CicaCare is quite a bit more expensive--one 5" x 6" sheet cost nearly $45 on Amazon; I bought the ScarAway for over $20 (I think) at CVS; the ScarAway box has 8 1.5" x 3" sheets.  Based on the two sizes, I'm getting between three and four times as much silicone sheeting with ScarAway.  So if CicaCare doesn't last as long as it says, it won't be worth the price.  We'll see.

At least CicaCare acknowledges that the strip might not adhere.  It suggests holding the strip on with " a lightly elastic conforming bandage or tape".  I think that means the type of bandage that you can roll around something.  That would have worked for my foot, but won't work for my face.

As I said, too bad it's so hard to apply silicone to the face, where the need to reduce scarring is great.  I don't really know if ScarAway's scar serum is much of a substitute, but I'm using that when I'm not wearing a gel strip.  At least two more months of this.  Ugh.