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Hey so I thought I'd try doing a log. I'm a 26 year old male who has struggled with acne for more than half my life and it's time to put it to an end. My real trouble areas are my neck and mouth/chin area.

I'm currently on day 3. The first 2 days I started out with a little dryness on my cheeks and chin but my face felt really good and clean.

I woke up to day 3 with about 6 whiteheads that hurt like crazy! I ended up popping one of them after a few hours of seeing it because it was so big and nasty. The others started going down or completely went away by the time I did my night regimen. I washed my face tonight and noticed my skin is flakey after using Dan's cleanser but not before. I put the BP on(1/3 finger) and it gets rid of the flakes but it stung so much on my chin and made my whole mouth area feel like it was on fire. I couldn't wait to put the moisturizer on which helped a little bit but not much. Now about 4 hours later it still stings bad and have about 3 more very small whiteheads on my cheeks.

Tomorrow morning may be ugly with this feeling I have right now. It's weird I've only broke out with whiteheads right now though.

My current regimen morning and night:

1. 3 pumps Dan's Cleanser
2. 1/3 finger Dan's BP
3. 3 pumps Dan's Moisturizer

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Day 4

This morning wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I woke up and to my surprise my face felt really clean and no pain at all. I checked the mirror and luckily I only had 2 very small whiteheads right below my nose. I did the regimen and within a few hours the whiteheads had vanished.

I just did my 2nd regimen of the day and decided since I haven't been sore today I would up the BP to almost half my finger. It definately stings but nowhere near as bad as yesterday. One thing I noticed is my forehead and nose don't seem to even need the moisturizer. If I put moisturizer on them they end up extremely shiny and even without the moisturizer my skin doesn't even seem to be dry in those areas.

Right now I just have a few dozen red marks from recent acne but nothing new showing at this point. My face was pretty bad last week but by the time I started on day 1 I was almost cleared up except for those red marks. I usually go through these stages of the second I clear up from a breakout, I get hit with another and it's just a never ending process. The red marks never seem to go away as I'll just get covered again in those areas so I never have time to recover.

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Day 5

No new breakouts today but woke up to flaking on the sides of my chin probably after upping my BP just a little bit. I decided to go back to the BP I was using but I am still just really flakey today.

One thing I'm wondering is why I notice I'm more dried out after washing my face than I am before. I try to keep my washing down to 10-15 seconds at most. The BP seems to actually reduce some of the flakes and when I put the moisturizer on it gets rid of even more.

I'm thinking about getting Jojoba oil as this will probably get worse. The flaking is very embarassing.

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Day 6

So today I had 2-3 new spots on my face that I could tell were coming up the last few days. They're not terrible as the BP is helping them be a little flatter I think. Also most of the red marks on my neck are going away.

The dryness is really just too much for me right now around my mouth and cheeks. I decided to lower my BP down a little to about 1/4 finger for my whole face and doing 1/3 finger for my neck which has no dryness so far. I'm also using about 2-3 pumps moisturizer just for the area around my mouth and cheeks and another 2 pumps for my neck, nose, and forehead. The 2-3 pumps seems like it builds a layer over the flakes and not actually get rid of them because I can still feel my face cracking so I have to be careful not to smile or talk to much as it will feel like my skin is going to flake off. It does seem to last the whole day with very minimal flaking until I decide to wash it off then the flakes show up bad.

I ordered Jojoba oil which should be here around Thursday so then I should hopefully be able to add more BP to my face.

Edited by Helpclear, 25 July 2011 - 02:28 PM.

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Day 7

Nothing new today except the flakes seem to be extending more on my cheeks. My face doesn't hurt as much from the cracking now but it's definately getting worse. I can't wait for the Jojoba oil to come.

I'll probably post some pictures tomorrow if anyone is interested. I will probably stop posting updates so often as there is probably no need to at this point unless something big happens.

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Day 17

So things seem to be going decent. I've had a few new spots pop up but not as many as normal so far. I do have this HUGE pimple to the left of my nose that is extremely embarassing. I hate the big pimples more than anything! I felt it forming on day 5-6 right next to the area where I had just gotten rid of an identically sized pimple which lasted about a month or two. It's very depressing and I feel so terrible lately.

The part I see improved so far is my neck and jawline. Usually my neck and jaw are covered in them but I currently have 2 on the left side of my neck below my ear and I can feel 2 more on the back of my neck when I do the regimen. The 2 below my ear are both pretty big, but nothing in comparision to the one next to my nose. I don't know why they have been coming in so big lately.

One thing I'm still struggling bad with is dryness. I went to 2/3 finger BP and was using that for close to a week and the dryness was just so bad I couldn't control it even with jojoba oil. I decided I just had to give in and lower the BP to 1/2 finger and so far the flakes have improved drastically in just a day. I'll try and slowly add more when I feel I can handle the 1/2 finger, but I don't know how much it really matters to get to the full dosage. It seems most of my face is pretty good except for those areas where I had a few pimples but that's just all part of improving.

One last thing I'm noticing is another GIANT pimple might be forming to the right of my nose. I noticed a big red spot about 3 days ago and it seems to be slowly coming up. I can't imagine having 2 identically huge pimples on each side of my nose. Please go away!

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Day 39

Everything is going great. I'm now using 2/3 finger BP for my face and 3/4 finger for my neck. I had a few pimples form on the back of my neck when using 1/2-2/3 so I decided to go with a little bit more about 1 week ago and I haven't noticed any new pimples form since I've done that. I also don't seem to have dryness issues now.

My face and the front of my neck hasn't had 1 new pimple since about week 1 or 2. The other pimples I felt coming on never surfaced. My face still looks like it has acne from the red marks and scars on my face but hopefully those will clear up with some time.

I really am starting to feel quite a lot better about my appearance. I actually can shave daily now without the need to try and hide pimples.

Thanks a lot Dan.

Edited by Helpclear, 27 August 2011 - 05:54 PM.

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I thought I would give an update on how everything is going. I'm 3 months in and I'm 100% clear. I have the rare pimple or two but they are gone within 1-2 days. I have some scars that seem to be fading very slowly as well. I just can't believe how much this has worked.