Does anyone know where Alex is and how his skin is doing right now?

I would have so much fun if that were the cure. Not doing anything, no showering, sitting around eating cake and anything I wanted, then going to wack off 3 times a day.

From what I can tell from reading the first 10 pages, he went on this "nothing regimen" for about 4 months and he said it cleared him up 100% but he was gonna wait a little longer to make sure his acne did not come back before he gave it his seal of approval. Then he dissappeared...

My conclusion is that this works for a lot of people, and once their skin clears up they forget about acne and forget about acne.org. Why bother when your skin is clear? Plus there are a lot of ignorant punks in here that flamed Alex for his experiment without even giving it a chance, why would he want to hang around just to argue with them? however there was also a lot of people that tryed this "nothing regimen" and said that it was working great and then dissappeared as well.hmmm makes me think it worked for them as well and they got on with their lives.

SOOOoooo, what regimen should you try??? BP? with all the people saying that it works temporarily and then they get huge cysts??? ..SA?? lol, i wont even get into that, old school..OMG ACCUTANE?!?! "miracle" pill that f*&cks your whole body up and clears you up for a months before your acne comes raging back?!?! Or this? which has really no negative feedback and people say works great!! DAMN! what a tough decision lol.

I am a firm believer that less is more, I have used most of the acne "fighting" chemicals out there including SA, BP, Neo, etc, etc and although they do clear things up for a while my acne always comes back, usually much worse. I have slowly started eliminated all the harmful chemicals from my regimen and now just use Cetaphil cleanser and try to eat a bit healthier (NO MILK!) and my skin is looking tons better.

Jeez... Now I'm considering this, but I've JUST started on the regimen.

What if this doing-nothing-regimen really works for me? But what if it DOESN'T?! Then I would do something else... But.. ARGH! It's a tough decision, coz I just wanna look good, and rather soon...

Depressing

You could just try this for a week or so and if you don't like the results you can always switch to the CSR.
I am experimenting with this, I haven't take a shower in over 48 hours and some of my pimples that were forming came to a head, but I haven't seen any new ones yet. I hate the way my skin feels so oily but it really looks alot healthier, so I am gonna stick with it and see what happens.

Problem is, sometimes it'll improve in 48 hours...then get much worse in the long run.

I would use Benzoyl Peroxide while not washing my face (which is what I've been doing for about a year now).

I was wondering if you guys prefered using cold or warm to hot water? Which is better?

Cold water

Yeah cold water seems to be better.

Woa I just cam across this and it's definitely radical. To not do anything?
I can't help being sceptical. Is there anyone else that has tried this and it worked for them?
Acnefree helped me quite a bit, but I still have random crap that comes up.

I'm not going to eat crap like cake and sweets because I don't want to do that anyway, but not wasing my face for 2 days is like freaking going against all my logic. lol
I think there might just be too many veriables.

But good call on the milk. You should drink soy instead.

you shaved your dog?
what?

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i am starting to believe this as well.

for the last 4 days ive been doing nothing and my skin is doing better
then it was when i used tretinoin during the day and bp at night. so now i will
continue to do nothing but wash with cetaphil and use my acnelamp.

i think that bp might upset the whole natural flora of the skin and make your a
cne "different" like giving you cysts and making it more severe. we will see what happens.

surprisingly my face is drier then it ever was as well but this might have something to
do with the dry weather and very little humidity in the air.

what if some acne cases start out as a just a minor vitamin deficiency?

but we try topicals first and then its helps breifly then acne gets worse
cause we never fixed the vitamin deficiency and on top of that weve
disrupted the microflora in our skin and now our acne is worse and
we think we have serious acne.

to be truly holistic then you would have to stop all topicals and give
your body everything it needs.




what if all we need is 6 months of vitamin a therapy like accutane,
cause thats all accutane is any way(vitamin a that has been metabolised by the body)
it is not a drug it is a vitamin derivitave. drug companies did not create it,
they just patented the process for making it synthetically. 13- cis retinoic acid is made
in the human body. it is not a drug. but i dont know how to define drug.

wild idea but whether it is true or not is yet to be determined. what do you all think?

Right that's a good theory and probobly partially true but then that wouldn't explain the relathionship between hormones and acne. As in too much testestorone causes it or why it would usually subside once someone gets older.

thought about it for a while and it actually wouldnt explain the acne on my back.i never use anything on my back.

i think i may be clearing mainly because of a drop in the humidity levels.with a partial credit to the do nothing regimen. bacteria thrive in high heat and humidity. anyone in the northern usa/canada experiancing clearer skin these days?

If you sleep in a cold room I think it reduces the number of pimples that form by the time you wake up(at least from my experience).

Anyway, I think this theory has something to it. You never know if applying those soaps etc. are hurting or helping.

One thing I remember from high school is, a lot of people who I would say had poor hygiene(they didn't brush or shower for weeks) didn't have any skin problems it seemed. It was almost always the clean person who had skin problems.

It's probably more "natural" to just wash your face off with water, rather than soaps etc. I'm sure one of the 20-30 chemicals in various washes is going to just get absorbed into the skin and cause more problems down the road (like shampoo http://www.newstarget.com/003210.html.

Anyway, I'm going to stay away from all that shit as it probably just kills you long term. You never know what the medical/pharmaceutical industries agenda is (seems like they want to get / keep people sick so they can treat them magically with wonder-drugs). Going to give up shampoo too imo

I was wondering if anyone applied moisurizer after washing with water? If so what kind?

You know what? Now that I think more about it I think this is bs.
Why? Because I wash my forehead the most, sometimes using a pad on just my forhead between washing it. (so a total of 3 times a day) and I haven't seen a zit on my forehead in a really long time. It's pretty much clear. But I do get some under my chin and jaw line, where I never really wash with any topicals.
Explain that in relation to this "do nothing" regime.

the way i understand it, its the topicals that are doing the most upsetting of the skin flora not the fact you are washing with regular soap, unless its antibacterial. i would suspect a mild facial cleanser would be ideal.

another thing to consider is the fact p.acnes lives in a sebum rich environment, maybe the flora on your forehead is different then that of your chin.



now that i think of it sebaceous glands exist all over your body, if acnes is supposed to be mainly because of sebum then why wouldnt you have it all over your body?

acne never makes sense to me.