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[Enry]

do you think it might be the weather's getting too dry as well? as fall is here now.....
maybe a humidifier at night might help?

Well the weather is probably not helping no. It's starting to get colder out side and this is also around the time my skin gets a bit drier than usual. I have looked into using honey, but am still pretty reluctant to use it on my face. Maybe I am just to stubborn

I know exactly what you are goin thru this is my 3rd week on the regimen and boy does my skin look bad, i got the initial breakout so i have atleast 12-13 pimples. But last week my skin was on fire, it was red, irritated and flaky, it took about 2 days for it that to clear up, (i think my skin was "hardening" for the BP) Anyway after that I broke out bad and now the pimples more or less are slowing startin to dry up. Maybe your skin is just getting use to the bp, I was careful about amount too but that didnt stop it from reddening and flaking.

Thanks for the reply, I think everyone on the regimen goes through this stage. I just hope my skin gets used to it fast

[katharine]

I have looked into using honey, but am still pretty reluctant to use it on my face. Maybe I am just to stubborn

what, it's too feminine? haha
come on, it'll do you good.

[Enry]

Day 14
So Dan's cleanser and moisturizer showed up in the mail the other day. This is my second full day of using them. The cleanser is nice, but using it as a shaving cream really doesn't work well for me. I will continue using my gillete sensitive foam. The moisturizer really made a big difference in my regimen. It seems to keep my skin from flaking a lot better than my previous one. My skin is still getting very dry, but atleast I can keep it moisturized proparly! I still add the jojoba oil at night because it's soothing after I shave.

So far it seems like my acne is going down a bit. A few new pimples popped up, but seem to be leaving a bit faster to. I just realized I have not mentioned what supplements I take so here's my list:

2x Fish Oil: omega 3 & 6 (yeye I forgot about 9 )
1x Multi vitamin (I checked the Iodene amount)
1x Zinc 30 mg
1x Niacinamide 250 mg
1x Vitamin D 2.5 ug (I got more from the multi vitamin)

p.s. Katharine: it's not because it's too feminine Just seems like an odd thing to me to use a sticky sugarry substance on my face.

[katharine]

I know, lots of the time it's hard to keep the honey on, cause they're dripping everywhere lol
but I'm fine with that....
maybe you can add in some oatmeal to thicken up the consistency........

and sometimes I think putting things I can eat down my stomach, onto my skin,
is better than putting chemicals on. anyway,
honey is cheap

have you ever find out what happened if you cut the supplements?

[Enry]

I know, lots of the time it's hard to keep the honey on, cause they're dripping everywhere lol
but I'm fine with that....
maybe you can add in some oatmeal to thicken up the consistency........

and sometimes I think putting things I can eat down my stomach, onto my skin,
is better than putting chemicals on. anyway,
honey is cheap

have you ever find out what happened if you cut the supplements?

Do you just put plain honey on your skin without adding anything? I tried to search the board a bit, but some people are using special honey and others don't mention how to apply it.

I never used to take supplements, started with a multivitamin about a year ago and have been adding things I read about here since then. I don't know how much it is helping as I have been trying different topical treatments while taking them. But at least it makes me feel like I am actively trying to battle the acne

[Enry]

Day 17
There haven't been any major changes with my skin since my last update. I was attending a wedding yesterday, and ofc my skin was redder than ever. I was rather annoyed to go out with such a red face, but I really had to go. On the way there I realized that my shirt & tie were really starting to annoy my skin. I also apply BP on my neck because I get acne there sometimes. When I went to the bathroom I saw my skin was really dry and flaky around my neck. I felt like leaving even before everything started.

Meh... I don't want to whine, I have a lot going for me and want to stay positive. But yesterday really annoyed me. Now I have acne, and my skin looks like it's falling apart. At least with only acne, I could get over it a bit easier by not looking in the mirror too much. Now I can feel my skin drying, and am rather self conscious. To top it off I woke up this morning with three new pimples I feel like I want to stop doing the regimen, but I guess now is the time to keep going and push on! So I will

[katharine]

for me I actually like to smack a bit of tomato into the honey. I think you can use any honey, btut pick somehting that's more.... organic. (just in case if there're any un-organic honey....). But I hear manuka honey is the top choice (easy to find). I'm just using lychee honey that i have in the kitchen. Just that as if said, honey is drippy, so the oatmeal might thicken it up. I also add egg white in it sometimes ... so it's just like cooking.... whatever I feel like I want to put on my skin. Sometimes, I like it plain honey.

haha, yea the psychology of you're taking something, it has to help in some way. The only thing is I always feel that taking fish oil might break some people out.. probably it's the word "oil" sounds off for me hahah How about diet? I always think that it has something to do with acne...

Yikes, sorry about having a bad skin day for a wedding... but the good news is you're not the groom. so, people's focus wasn't on you, and other guests would only remember about how happy the newly weds and how beautiful their wedding was For me, I'm ok to look crappy on someone else's wedding, cause what's important is that the couple have a great day.


well don't give up yet, it has just been a bit over half a month!

[halon2]

Hey, did you ever make any progress with the red/dry/flakiness? I was hoping this would work for you!