I just got my latest check from drugstore.com and it was $569 over what I need for bandwidth this month. I don’t know why people have been clicking through to drugstore.com and ordering more stuff, but this rocks. I needed the extra money to pay for past months where I had to cover some of the bandwidth myself, but with another couple months like this one and I’ll be caught up. Y’all rock! Thanks.

Something I find very cool about running a business is being able to affect the sustainability policies of partner companies. Sustainability basically means fulfilling our needs today without jeopardizing the health and well being of future generations. It is a huge movement in business and I believe the way business will be performed in the future. I was active in environmental organizations in college and remain committed to working in that area. After all, when I think about it, I’m part of nature.

I have been diligent lately about requesting written environmental statements from partner companies. A friend of mine who works at a local business school that concentrates on sustainable business suggested I do this. I’ve found it is a great way to express my concern and get them involved. I received the first statement from our fulfillment house and posted it here.

I’ve been interviewing people for the Administrative Manager position and I’ve talked to some amazing people. I’m consistently surprised at the level of intelligence out there. Maybe it’s just that I’m not all that intelligent But for real, not only have the candidates been experienced and qualified, they are cool people who share my vision of getting the community involved and heading for people over profit. So I am excited to see what two of us working full time can get done.

Two blog posts in one day. I am out of control. Anyhoo, I asked you guys last week what you thought of the homepage and how we could make it better. You gave me a bunch of great suggestions and Joel and I implemented some of them, such as making the community more prominent and moving the mission statement up toward the top. Thanks!

I wasn’t planning on updating the blog this often, but more stuff happened in the last day or two.

First, I’m hiring an administrative manager. I put an ad up on craigslist here. If you know any cool and talented people in San Francisco, please let them know.

Ain’t she purdy? I started selling this thing called “body buddy” which helps people apply skin care products to the back. People have been asking me for years how to reach the unreachable areas of the back to perform the back acne regimen and I finally have a good answer for them. My friend Debi discovered the body buddy at a skin care conference and told me about it. The body buddy company, who are really just a couple of people in Oklahoma, sent me a sample and it’s quite nice. It is made of a soft yet non-absorbent material so it doesn’t irritate. I dig it. If you end up trying it, please let me know what you think.

Hi everybody. I thought I’d start a blog so I can keep you informed on what I’m doin’ here to try to make Acne.org and DanKernsRegimen.com the bestest ever. So, if you’re interested in the details, read on. I have big plans and I’m totally on it.

These sites have gotten pretty big. I now work on acne.org and dankernsregimen.com full-time, plus I’m hiring a second full-time person to help me out. I’ve gotten so busy with admin stuff that I haven’t had as much time as I’d like to do site improvements.

Joel, our webmaster patiently works with me to make stuff happen. He is completely fantastic to work with, but he’s all mine. Do not, I repeat, do not, offer him a job! Joel is in North Carolina and I’m in California, so we chat through GoogleTalk for hours on end several times a week working on little site stuff.

Fun Schtuff you can expect at Acne.org: To be perfectly honest, I haven’t even figured it all out in my mind yet, but suffice it to say that my mind is racing with ideas and I am excited to make some stuff happen. I can’t really be more specific because I don’t know which ideas will win out, but in general I’d like to expand the community part of Acne.org and let everybody be more a part of decisions and information authorship. I’m thinking of adding wikis like wikipedia.org where we can all collaborate from our own computers on a document. I’m also thinking about adding more ratings, and a YouTube-type of self-updating video so we can all share videos of how we perform the regimen or apply certain skin care products. I’ll keep you posted.

What you can expect on dankernsregimen.com: Quick product update: I am still working on both an spf and a non-spf moisturizer–weekly, methodically, and steadfastly. I lost count, but I’ve received about 46-47 samples now from seven manufacturers. I recently added yet another manufacturer to the field of competition. dum dum duuuum. They seem on top of the latest science, and are cool people who employ happy individuals who are proud of their work. But, the last moisturizer sample I designed myself! I have learned so much about moisturizer formulation through trying samples, going to the Society of Cosmetic Chemists conference this winter, and speaking with chemist friends that I have narrowed down my favorite ingredients which can be combined safely and which do an amazing job at moisturization. I like sodium lactate (a ’salt’ form of lactic acid) which is great at moisturization, urea which holds in moisture, glycerin which is great at moisturizing and kind on the skin, and anti-inflammatories to help further combat the inflammatory side of acne. I had a private formulator make up a sample like this for me and it is my favorite so far. But I’m shooting for the best moisturizer ever in the history of the world, and don’t really want to put one out that is not, so I’m not going to rush anything. I’ll keep you posted.