Thread: Any one have bad acne

i used to have really bad acne, but my doctor put me on accutane and its not as bad as it was last year. it's still a little red, but compared to last year and the years before that my skin is a lot clearer.

i have acne but it dosen't matter because the photoshop clone tool removes them from my pictures for me in such a realiastic manner

It removed my acne in my school picture too.

Well, what I do is just to keep your face clean, stop touching it, (however satisfying it might be to pop those things), and regularly change pillowscasings, all this so you dont infect yourself over and over again. It doesnt prove immidiate results but over time you'll notice it'll be less and less....

I do. Washing my face really doesn't do anything, even though I do it to be safe and clean. It did clear up quite a bit when I went to the beach for a week, but unfortunately I don't live by an ocean, and even if so, I don't have time to spend soaking in salt water for 5+ hours a day.

Actually the amount of acne I actually have at any one point is not so bad, but when I was younger it was really bad and nothing worked, so now I have quite a few scars left on my face.

I've thought about trying either the Zen Med system or the Proactiv system, but haven't yet.

Never had so much as a spot (maybe one or two)

I have good hygene



....is that good grammer?

ew.

ew

i don't know if Proactive is for someone with bad acne, but it worked well enough for me...try it out..cant hurt now can it?

my parents can't afford proacne, but I don't realy need it my skin is quite clear know thanks to my new method.

it starts by having a clencer and a acne medication I recommend it has the active ingredient of 10% Benzoyl Peroxide, sense it's proven to be the best for the averidge person, I use noxzema as a clencer (it's the stuff in the purple or blue cilinder shaped bottle(I'm almost color blind) it is white and lumpy, the mosterizing kind, not the kind in the tube. then I use oxy as an acne medication, the kind that coveres up blemishes, but anything will work, I'm no comercailist.

first thing you get up in the morning and go to school, or anytime before work use a moisturizer then when you get home put on a acne medication, and leave it on intill three hours later then use the moisturizer again then when you go to bed put some acne medication on and repeat the next day.

can't afford proactive either, my mom thinks it makes no diffrents, which it does not

Originally posted by lucid dream god
I recommend it has the active ingredient of 10% Benzoyl Peroxide

i would recommend 2.5% benzoyl peroxide, because

1) thats all you really need, the more isnt the better
2) a high benzoyl peroxide percentage can really dry out the skin, not really attractive...

but i dont use benzoyl peroxide, because

1) doesnt work for me at all
2) even 2.5% dries out my skin, which would be bad even now since the accutane has literally changed my skin type from oily to dry

so all i do now is wash my face with dr hauschka products and hopefully my horrible acne doesnt come back...

My brother used to have bad acne on his back and shoulders. But he showered only every 3 days (ew). So I told him to shower everyday or at LEAST every other day. That cleared it up about 50%. Then I noticed that he would change his pillow cases or sheets but once a week, AND he would sleep in the same t-shirt that he wore all day. So I told him to change just his pillow case every night, AND sleep in a CLEAN t-shirt every night. That finally cleared up the other 50%. Now he hardly ever has acne anywhere.

The reason I was the one telling him all this is because the same thing happened to me when I would sleep in the same shirt I wore all day. Sleeping in dirty clothes and bed linens are a HUGE acne invitation, even if you shower regularly. If you care about yourself, you'll at least TRY what I said. Then you'll have happy skin.

Have you ever wondered if it would be useful for like the world to collobrate on burning every single acne spore thing so we don't get it again. Same with plague, so we don't have to brush our teeth every again. heh.

Hmm.... I didn't know that sleeping in the same clothes or not changing the pillowcase can contribute to acne. Our family never really had that problem (for which I am truly grateful), but my boyfriend does and I would probably attribute it to the kind of food he eats (ie. pizza, etc.)

*decides to put her sheets in the wash*

-Amé

Your skin is defenitly going to dry out if you don't use a clencer, my skin was realy dry once because I only used noxzema once a day

lucky6 for me, I don't have bad acne. What I do is wash my face when I wake up, when I get home from school and when I go to bed.

I don't have terrible acne, but I do have more than I'd like to have. About a week ago, I went a little crazy and washed my face about seven times a day for a week. I also bought some acne medication (the kind with Benzoyl Peroxide) and put WAY too much on....Like six applications throughout the day. Let me tell you, I'll never do that again!My face got worse than ever with the peeling and redness and more pimples! Never do that. I quit using it altogether and I've started washing my face about twice a day....Resonable. Actually, if you want rid of acne, washing your face reasonable, taking showers, changing clothes and sheets regualrly is your best bet.

thats what I do, I've gone crazy too, sometimes I get realy upset. now I've been washing my face with only noxzema, and it's doing realy good

please ignore the user who posted that and know it was me, sorry about that

ps. don't ask

Best medication on the market for acne is Accutane. Its pretty hardcore stuff and really works.
I used to have acne, took accutane for about 1/2 year and its all gone.
Ask your doctor about it.

I just figured out that the oxy stuff without the stuff that makes acne less visoble works realy well I went to sleep with it on and its taking the acne away realy fast, it's almost like it has grits of sand in it, I probly already tried that smerf, I tried so many things, but now my acne is pretty much gone.