Best Ways To Reduce Acne

Ya, i don't eat as much junk food anymore. I don't really have any stress. I also have been washing my hands before i wash my face. I don't pick anymore. I don't want to take a pill for a few pimples especially if it costs 200 dollars even with insurance. It has been getting better since i first started this topic though. I have been washing my face about 2 times a day with a new medicine. It is getting better. Thanks for the help.

I've heard Proactive is good for the skin. My mother knew a girl with bad acne that switched to that stuff. Now her skin is clean with no acne or pimples.

I might give the tea tree oil a try.

I agree.

I have a few tips for you. You are on the right track with cutting out certain foods. If you are such a chocoholic, then you might want to try RAW COCOA. You can add it to fruit smoothies and stuff, or by itself. It's free of milk, sugar, and heat, so it's the best part of the chocolate without anything guilty. It's been called the food of the gods, and it's a superfood. Try finding it online, it's not in any stores, yet.

If you want to get rid of a blemish overnight, then try clay. Proactive clay mask thingy is the best clay to just dab on a blemish and then it will disapear. Any pure clay will work (try it internally if you will, as it cleanses the system) but Proactive just really works.

I find that those other soaps you were talking about just irritate the skin and make blemishes worse. I use pure castile soap, Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps, or Kirk's original coco castile. Just because they don't have any unnatural things that your body has to detox. Also use a natural deoderant, and then your shoulders will not blemish.

Oh, and I heard about this conncoction that you can make by mixing 2/3 hydrogen peroxide and 1/3 colloidal silver. You spray it on after getting out of the shower. The silver kills the bacteria and the hydrogen peroxide will, too, and also help with scars.

The last thing to talk about is the sun. It will kill the bacteria off and make your skin healthy, fade scaring and give you a healthy glow. It is a powerful detox. Try some sun today, it's free, so why not? --(No sunlotion! Only coconut oil, if you must, and do not exceed an hour a day. )

AH.. so I shouldn't be mixing or using too much acne product treatments. lol this is probably what I've been doing wrong. Should I get one acne treatment or does a good old simple fashion soap 2 - 3 times a day do the trick?

I use CLINIQUE products. They're very good, a little expensive but it works.
Remember that cheap things are in most of the cases the expensive ones.

Good Luck!

I agree with Proactiv.

Combined with an active lifestyle, heathy diet, plenty of water and good amount of rest. The recipe for clear skin =)

I used to have really bad cystic acne all over my face. With the above regimine, you're on your way to beautiful skin. It may sound really simple, but it's really hard to maintain.

You need to find the prevention, not just the cure. It's longer lasting.

This post has been edited by ladylove: Feb 17 2008, 01:54 AM

I have not had alot of acne throughout my life but recenlty I started getting some, it seems to go away and then come back again.......I think it may be caused by stress or hormones.....it seems that I've tried everything and it won't completely disapear.

I had struggled with acne my whole teenage life. I have literally tried everything. Of all the medications, astringents, and cleansers I have tried only two actually did anything. Proactive (that stuff you see on commercials) is the first thing that really worked. It comes with 3 things you put on your face. This stuff greatly reduced the number of pimples on my face. However, in the long run this just wasn't enough for me. Depending on what kind of acne you have this will show measurable improvement but not enough. For some it clears up their skin entirely, for me it didn't. The holy grail of acne medication for me was (drum roll please) Acutanne. This stuff was absolutely amazing. Not only does it start to clear up you skin within like 3 weeks, it keeps it that way forever! For about 95% of the population with acne who uses acutanne, this is the result that they will have. For the other 5% (like me) it is a little different. Ok, so my skin didn't clear up in 3 weeks (started too though) but it actually took about a month and a half. Then I think you are on the medication (which is in pill form) for like 5 months. By month 3 you are supposed to be completely clear and not getting new pimples. This never completely happened for me. My skin did clear up, but I still got SOME pimples. Now, my dermatologist said that I was in this 5% and that I would have to wait 5 months and then go on another 5 month period on acutanne. Which I did not want to do because there are some *BLEEP* drawbacks to acutanne.
Firstly, YOU CAN NOT DRINK ANY ALCOHOL WHATSOEVER WHILE ON ACUTANNE!!! Acutanne puts your liver at a severe risk to alcholol. So much so that you have to get blood work done every month. Secondly, acutanne has been know to cause you too loose hair. This happened to me also. While it looks natural, I still know I have what looks like a receeding hairline. It isn't bad whatsoever and now that I have been off acutanne it has stopped but no hair has or will ever grow back.
So i guess you have to way your options. If you do go on acutanne it will probably be the maricle that it is for 95% of those who try it. Not to say that I'm not happy with what I have. I barley break out, and when I do get a few pimples, they are not very bad at all. I could have gone for another 5 months of treatment but decided that I wanted to party again. lol. When you go to a dermatologist, they will put you on everything they can before they put you on acutanne. This is a last resort if nothing else works. So now all I do is wash my face with Noxema face wash once a day and my skin stays relatively clear. I'm sure if I went back to Proactive it would probably clear my skin up completely but I haven't done that yet.
Also, it really doesn't matter what you eat. Food doesn't effect acne at all so eat what you want. However, resting your hands on you face or excessive touching your face will rub dirt and bacteria into your pores so try not to do that too often.
One last piece of advice. Don't wash your face more than 2 or 3 times a day! The face washes that you use dry out your skin to much sometimes and washing excessively will actually cause more acne! You want you skin to be not too oily but not too dry either.
Good luck!

Clinique doesn't really work on me; ProActive kinda does . . . Right now I'm using something called Differin .1%. You have to get it from your doctor, but supposedly it works really well. I haven't been using it long enough to tell if it works, but it might be worth looking into.

Hi,
I used to have really bad acne . It was pretty embarassing to go to college with my acne patched face and I was desperate to get rid of it somehow. I took plenty of efforts to keep my face clean all the time and also ate nutritious food and drank lots of water. Unfortunately none of it helped. I then recently read an article about a lady who got rid of her acne using a particular product. I tried it and it worked really well. Within 4 weeks my acne was gone completely. Really good stuff. You can read more about the lady’s article at the link below.

http://acnevanish.wordpress.com/