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[WantMyLifeBack]

moisturizers dont form protective layers over the skin they are designed to penetrate the skin which is why they have a potential to cause breakouts.

why not just wash your face then apply some type of oil afterwards ( i personally use coconut). You can try mixing it with some bottled water instead of regular to avoid the chloride in tap which is known to dry the skin out. Sometimes usually in the winter when i feel like my skin is dry ill apply oil all over my body when im in the shower and just run water across it. makes the skin feel highly moisturized for several days.

if anything not washing will make your skin drier eventually because youre not adding moisture from the water to your face anymore. its best to wash and then replace the oils lost if necessary.

You cant replace lost oils from youre face with cosmetics, theyre nothing like youre natural oils although you will look and feel less dry and flaky

[numbaunstunna]

Hi all,
I just wanted to drop by to give you an update on my caveman regimen. I have been on this regimen for close to 3 months and all I can say is WOW. No more blackheads on nose and my skin looks Great. The first month my skin was cracking and my blackheads looked like black pointy things. But now my skin has completely exfoliated and I do not have any oiliness on my skin. Old scars have also disappeared It is great! However, I must caution you that this alone did not cure my acne. I still have to keep away from milk based products and also juices. I have been acne free for 2 months now and encourage you to keep trying and experimenting. It took me a year of diligent research and keeping a food log but now the work is paying off!! Good luck!

[maine 14]

I am 22 years old and started this regimen 14 days ago. ive had acne since i was about 16 and treated it with benzoyl peroxide. it has predominantly always been on my cheeks so i began just treating that area about three years ago. now the only acne I have is on my cheeks and this area appears to be red and irriatated i havent touched my fore head in like 3 years and it is flawless, my chin and mouth area are as well. Also my cheeks are far more oily than my forehead and I believe it is supposed to be the opposite, so I assume it is the BP an SA causing this. the first week went very well. I rinsed with water at night for like 10 seconds. With in the last few days I have been getting verysmall redmarks than do not come to a head but there are more than normal. I am wondering if this is just the damaged skin underneath what has been peeling of this is new ace. I have had minimal peeling over my cheeks and nowhere else. has anyone gone through this?

[hope123]

I am starting this today. No water, no nothing will ever touch my face.

Will update soon

[hope123]

2nd Full Day of Caveman Log:

No new breakout. A Cluster of whiteheads scabbed over for the most part last night.

Biggest complaint so far: oilyness around inner cheeks/nose. General uncomfortableness.

[hope123]

3rd Day of Caveman Log:

No "new" breakouts, other than those that I saw developing before I started the Caveman. But holy cow, my skin is matte this morning. Yesterday's complaint was the oilyness around nose, and I am certainly beyond that.

Biggest complaint at this point: Uncomfortableness. My face is actually a bit itchy, especially around beard area (I grow stubble and trim stubble w/ trimmer). I am not sleeping very well the past couple nights. Been having crazy dreams and moving around on my pillow, and at times I am itchy in the night.

Biggest noticeable problem with my skin: It's coming down to "red marks" from the big breakout I had prior to going on Caveman.

Edited by hope123, 17 February 2010 - 08:52 AM.

[hope123]

End of Day 4 on Caveman Log:

A couple very small new whiteheads. Breakouts are healing at a much faster pace than they come. Broken out area on chin is actually crusting off.

Forehead a bit oil, skin is still relatively blotchy. Dead skin building up on nose (feels interesting, only visible if I wiggle my nose around) and blackheads are actually noticably decreasing. Overall skin healthiness.

The redness in my cheeks (maybe KPRF) doesn't flare up really anymore. At least I don't feel it.

Biggest Negative: Occasional itchyness (beard area, and hairline)
Biggest noticeable flew with skin: Red marks and resolving spots.
Biggest Positive: I feel freed of a giant burden, my skin is CALM and I can just hit the sack after a long day.

Looking forward to the skin tone improvements that are rumored to occur around day 5

[YoshWakalaka]

End of Day 4 on Caveman Log:

A couple very small new whiteheads. Breakouts are healing at a much faster pace than they come. Broken out area on chin is actually crusting off.

Forehead a bit oil, skin is still relatively blotchy. Dead skin building up on nose (feels interesting, only visible if I wiggle my nose around) and blackheads are actually noticably decreasing. Overall skin healthiness.

The redness in my cheeks (maybe KPRF) doesn't flare up really anymore. At least I don't feel it.

Biggest Negative: Occasional itchyness (beard area, and hairline)
Biggest noticeable flew with skin: Red marks and resolving spots.
Biggest Positive: I feel freed of a giant burden, my skin is CALM and I can just hit the sack after a long day.

Looking forward to the skin tone improvements that are rumored to occur around day 5

Are you gonna be updating every single day?
I think it's gonna take awhile to see dramatic results so soon, especially on the caveman regimen.

[hope123]

End of Day 4 on Caveman Log:

A couple very small new whiteheads. Breakouts are healing at a much faster pace than they come. Broken out area on chin is actually crusting off.

Forehead a bit oil, skin is still relatively blotchy. Dead skin building up on nose (feels interesting, only visible if I wiggle my nose around) and blackheads are actually noticably decreasing. Overall skin healthiness.

The redness in my cheeks (maybe KPRF) doesn't flare up really anymore. At least I don't feel it.

Biggest Negative: Occasional itchyness (beard area, and hairline)
Biggest noticeable flew with skin: Red marks and resolving spots.
Biggest Positive: I feel freed of a giant burden, my skin is CALM and I can just hit the sack after a long day.

Looking forward to the skin tone improvements that are rumored to occur around day 5

Are you gonna be updating every single day?
I think it's gonna take awhile to see dramatic results so soon, especially on the caveman regimen.

Yeah, I think I will update pretty often, if you don't mind. A log is always beneficial to myself and hopefully my experience will be helpful to those who are considering and will consider this path .

Hear me out though: "Dramatic results" are occuring. They are dramatic because I have never seen my skin act or change like this. Now that is not to say "dramatic results" means great results or perfect skin. We all know that's stupid to expect.

Day 5 of Caveman:

Slept well (no itchyness) Skin is quite balanced this morning. Hard to expain but my skin feels and looks thicker (close-up). Also, among the worst things I struggled with was milia and at one point I knew that it was due to drying out my skin. Well this has affirmed that, because many are disappearing well and no new ones.

[hope123]

Day 6:

Active breakouts are isolated to a toubled area on my left forehead, which had a few medium sized whiteheads. And 2 small surface whiteheads on neck. Both were previously troubled areas.

Skin tone could be better. Chin is building up crusted sebum over old clogs.

Milia are limited to between eyebrows. Forehead only a bit rough.

Neck and cheeks look healthy. Oils are very balanced except for forehead.

Dead skin buildup on nose healed over and doesn't feel funny anymore. It's as if it filled in evenly. (hard to explain)

Edited by hope123, 20 February 2010 - 12:48 PM.

[crashoran]

What are you supposed to do when you shower or shave?

[hope123]

Caveman Day... 7.. I guess:

Complexion looks nice today. It is more bright and balanced, not as blotchy, especially on neck! Old breakouts on chin have sebum crust that is slowly flaking off. Left side of forehead has an active breakout (i actually felt it coming from like a week ago) which im guessing will stop and heal up nicely to bring healthy skin. Red marks to the side of mouth have disappeared almost completely now. Oilyness is not an issue, except a little on forehead, little on nose. Blackheads on nose have seeed to turn into tiny raised flesh colored bumps, that in turn go away.

I'm starting to enjoy the healthy pinkness in my cheeks. They used be dull and red.

Overall, I'm happy with progress. Slow and steady is how I can best describe it. Oh, and if you've been following my progress, I'm sleeping much better the last couple nights, no jawlineitchyness.

What are you supposed to do when you shower or shave?

@crashoran- when you shower, simply avoid getting water on your face. be creative. Shave with a beard trimmer or electric razor. I just keep a stubble and it looks great.

[hope123]

Day 8:

Not much change from previous day.

I think there's two spots coming on right of my chin area.
Left forehead still healing. They have almost all scabbed over, overnight. Yesterday they were flaming whiteheads. My forehead is the only thing stopping me from looking better than ever. Couple new ones coming in above eyebrow on right forehead.

Edited by hope123, 22 February 2010 - 07:38 PM.

[hope123]

Day 9:

Not much change from previous day.

[hope123]

Day 10:

I've been growing a lot from this. And I'm in it for the long run. That said, it is a slow and long-term solution. I will not post on the boards often. I may simply update with current status of skin.

Nose: Little bumps/blackheads stretching almost to inner cheeks
Cheeks: Rosy
Actives:
*Forehead scattered small
*2 above right eyebrow/temple area
*1 small on right temple
*Couple small on each side of neck
*2 unsure areas on right chin
*Btwn eyebrows and right inner cheek small clogs

Currently, my forehead is a mess of small spots. I am giving up on that area. This may be the Week 2 breakout. I don't know. But luckily, this is easy to do, because I have long enough hair, and it looks good down. So I will not wear my hair up anymore for now. It may get worse, I Dont Care!

I would like to thank Adam08 for being an inspiration to me too. In honor of alexalmighty's signature, I believe everyone on this site should:

Search "This is your Life by the Dust Brothers" on YouTube.

Edited by hope123, 26 February 2010 - 12:25 PM.

[hope123]

still going strong. will update tomorrow.

[nowash]

Hey guys just wanted to post my thanks for all the experiments you've put yourselves through to make this thread. The no wash regimen helps me a lot.

I wanted to say though that if after you've waited for a while and you feel the dead skin mask has done it's job helping and healing, and is possibly hurting your skin now, and if your skin is EXTREMELY sensitive to topicals, water, or wash cloths, like mine is, you can take a smooth cotton shirt and exfoliate your skin. It's less irritating than a wash cloth and avoids the drying effects of water.

I always broke out a little bit when I used water and my fingers to remove the dead skin mask. Although my skin would be smoother, it would still form pimples after, although not as much as before. Same thing would happen to my chest area, shoulders or back when I washed with water and fingers or wash cloth, and I never got acne there before. Using a cotton shirt avoids this, and lets me not take a shower to remove dead skin. My skin actually looks clean from just exfoliating, I was surprised.

I'm hoping it works the same way for the scalp. I'll know tomorrow.

[hope123]

Day 15:

Skin tone never been better.
Lower half of face great. Upper half covered in small spots.

Actives:
Forhead, scattered
Upper left temple medium
Upper nose (left) medium
Under left ear small
Under left eye small
Right temple 2x small

Upper half of face looks bad, but showing signs of pulling out of breakout. Lower half (below eyebrow line) looks good.

Edited by hope123, 01 March 2010 - 11:00 AM.

[Self Conscious]

After eating some microwavable foods recently I found that my acne was returning (after almost a year of a pimple here and there). In my haste to quickly get rid of pimple I went out and bought some Cetaphil soap bar and started washing my face. After the first time it left my face feeling smooth (which is unusual) and looking vibrant, but definitely do more hurt than good. I have more pimples now than I've had in about 2 years. It's definitely a combo of my recently crappy diet and washing again.

I'm going back to caveman and not cleaning at all, but perhaps I'll do this exfoliating you guys speak of. My acne scars never ever seemed to fade (after about a year or more on my cheeks) but perhaps once the pimples go away the exfoliating will take the scars.

[andersoj]

Oops wrong thread lol

Edited by andersoj, 02 March 2010 - 12:53 AM.