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Hey im alex im 16 have pretty bad acne. Any ways it gotton worse since ive been doing this regimin its my second day and i was just wodering if any got a severe break out the next day? but i dont believe the cause is from not washing my face since my face was breaking out for a couple days before any who im thinking of taking some stuff out of my diet since ive only intruduced them a cuople days ago and thats when i started breaking out suchas zinc and vitiam b complex ill put some pics up so you can see how it goes for me this is day 2 for me.
please tell me if any ones broken out this badly form this? my skin was normal before i didnt have 60 million white heads is my skin just purifing itself? any ways peace out ia go fishing take my mind off this maybe wear a bagover my head when i get outside lol
just to tell you it takes time. I had no results before one month. But I washed my back with water so maybe it's not the same...dunno. But I had terrible acne I mean you know the big cysts and nodules thing. So try to be patient if you can
thanks =) u should just give it a whirl for 10 days and then you can truly say you tried.
yeah imma try i dont know if i can make it tho my face isnt getting better at all it worsening but my crack thery im puringing cause i had these little ones and theyr'e just getting bigger so imma try a couple more days whithout washing wiht water thanks for the support =)
Ok thanks. and how is it going now? Do you mean u don't wash it at all, not even water? It's getting so worse on my face that I'm actually wondering if what I get is acne or something more terrible or I don't know wot. I'm goign to the GP tomorr to get a blood test and a candida test I'm so worried. But I am home and want to give this thing a try just to help with redness and itchiness maybe. So no water at all huh?
yeah no water even if its ichy or greasy or your breaking out, very hard thing to do it would also help to do the apple fast wile your doing it since you sleep alot from being tired and wont have to go anywhere=P.
yeah stil not going to great some days my acne clears up like yesterday and some days it come right back to being like today =(.
hey good luck on your tests ive heard of a candida diet but not a test what is?
apple fasting? OMG I can't do that for the moment, i'm too tired and too weak. I'm already on a kind of diet, high protein and veggies, no grains or very little...but i first want to wait for the results. well to find out if u have candida they test your stool, i know it sounds disgusting but that's the way to do it, and anyway i really want to know if i have it or not...i want to the GP today and he gave me zinc and plants to be less stressed, he said stress could play a HUGE role in my acne. as to no water...well ok i'm gonna do it for several days and i'll update. tell me how u r doing with it, good luck!
Hey im alex im 16 have pretty bad acne. Any ways it gotton worse since ive been doing this regimin its my second day and i was just wodering if any got a severe break out the next day? but i dont believe the cause is from not washing my face since my face was breaking out for a couple days before any who im thinking of taking some stuff out of my diet since ive only intruduced them a cuople days ago and thats when i started breaking out suchas zinc and vitiam b complex ill put some pics up so you can see how it goes for me this is day 2 for me.
please tell me if any ones broken out this badly form this? my skin was normal before i didnt have 60 million white heads is my skin just purifing itself? any ways peace out ia go fishing take my mind off this maybe wear a bagover my head when i get outside lol
just to tell you it takes time. I had no results before one month. But I washed my back with water so maybe it's not the same...dunno. But I had terrible acne I mean you know the big cysts and nodules thing. So try to be patient if you can
thanks =) u should just give it a whirl for 10 days and then you can truly say you tried.
yeah imma try i dont know if i can make it tho my face isnt getting better at all it worsening but my crack thery im puringing cause i had these little ones and theyr'e just getting bigger so imma try a couple more days whithout washing wiht water thanks for the support =)
Ok thanks. and how is it going now? Do you mean u don't wash it at all, not even water? It's getting so worse on my face that I'm actually wondering if what I get is acne or something more terrible or I don't know wot. I'm goign to the GP tomorr to get a blood test and a candida test I'm so worried. But I am home and want to give this thing a try just to help with redness and itchiness maybe. So no water at all huh?
yeah no water even if its ichy or greasy or your breaking out, very hard thing to do it would also help to do the apple fast wile your doing it since you sleep alot from being tired and wont have to go anywhere=P.
yeah stil not going to great some days my acne clears up like yesterday and some days it come right back to being like today =(.
hey good luck on your tests ive heard of a candida diet but not a test what is?
apple fasting? OMG I can't do that for the moment, i'm too tired and too weak. I'm already on a kind of diet, high protein and veggies, no grains or very little...but i first want to wait for the results. well to find out if u have candida they test your stool, i know it sounds disgusting but that's the way to do it, and anyway i really want to know if i have it or not...i want to the GP today and he gave me zinc and plants to be less stressed, he said stress could play a HUGE role in my acne. as to no water...well ok i'm gonna do it for several days and i'll update. tell me how u r doing with it, good luck!
tell you the truth i cheated =( i washed my face with water some people just dont have the skin type to go for weeks without washing i have to wash mine every night with water and itll stay clear if i dont for about 4 days ill get huge zits everywhere and thats not cause im purifings it cause im loaded with bacteria lol i learnt my lesson the hard way but im less greasy not washing my face wiht soap. well good luck with you candida if you test positive does it mean you cant have yeast?
Hey im alex im 16 have pretty bad acne. Any ways it gotton worse since ive been doing this regimin its my second day and i was just wodering if any got a severe break out the next day? but i dont believe the cause is from not washing my face since my face was breaking out for a couple days before any who im thinking of taking some stuff out of my diet since ive only intruduced them a cuople days ago and thats when i started breaking out suchas zinc and vitiam b complex ill put some pics up so you can see how it goes for me this is day 2 for me.
please tell me if any ones broken out this badly form this? my skin was normal before i didnt have 60 million white heads is my skin just purifing itself? any ways peace out ia go fishing take my mind off this maybe wear a bagover my head when i get outside lol
just to tell you it takes time. I had no results before one month. But I washed my back with water so maybe it's not the same...dunno. But I had terrible acne I mean you know the big cysts and nodules thing. So try to be patient if you can
thanks =) u should just give it a whirl for 10 days and then you can truly say you tried.
yeah imma try i dont know if i can make it tho my face isnt getting better at all it worsening but my crack thery im puringing cause i had these little ones and theyr'e just getting bigger so imma try a couple more days whithout washing wiht water thanks for the support =)
Ok thanks. and how is it going now? Do you mean u don't wash it at all, not even water? It's getting so worse on my face that I'm actually wondering if what I get is acne or something more terrible or I don't know wot. I'm goign to the GP tomorr to get a blood test and a candida test I'm so worried. But I am home and want to give this thing a try just to help with redness and itchiness maybe. So no water at all huh?
yeah no water even if its ichy or greasy or your breaking out, very hard thing to do it would also help to do the apple fast wile your doing it since you sleep alot from being tired and wont have to go anywhere=P.
yeah stil not going to great some days my acne clears up like yesterday and some days it come right back to being like today =(.
hey good luck on your tests ive heard of a candida diet but not a test what is?
apple fasting? OMG I can't do that for the moment, i'm too tired and too weak. I'm already on a kind of diet, high protein and veggies, no grains or very little...but i first want to wait for the results. well to find out if u have candida they test your stool, i know it sounds disgusting but that's the way to do it, and anyway i really want to know if i have it or not...i want to the GP today and he gave me zinc and plants to be less stressed, he said stress could play a HUGE role in my acne. as to no water...well ok i'm gonna do it for several days and i'll update. tell me how u r doing with it, good luck!
tell you the truth i cheated =( i washed my face with water some people just dont have the skin type to go for weeks without washing i have to wash mine every night with water and itll stay clear if i dont for about 4 days ill get huge zits everywhere and thats not cause im purifings it cause im loaded with bacteria lol i learnt my lesson the hard way but im less greasy not washing my face wiht soap. well good luck with you candida if you test positive does it mean you cant have yeast?
Yeah it means you can't have yeast and bread and sugar and loads of other things...but I got the results and I have no candida...so I'm now waiting for the hormone level tests...I'm on a diet but I really want to learn the cause of my acne, I mean I'm 22 and still get the huge cystic acne on the bottom half of my face, it can't go away with topicals only or water or not water. I'm sure it's internal now.
Very interesting indeed. Here is what I'm currently doing for my face:
Morning:
50mg Minocycline
Wash with Cetaphil Gentle Skin Cleanser - All Skin Types
Apply 10% Sulfacetamide Topical Solution
Apply Purpose SPF 15 Moisturizer
Night:
50mg Minocycline
Wash with Cetaphil Gentle Skin Cleanser - All Skin Types
Apply 10% Sulfacetamide Topical Solution
I think I'm going to cut out the morning minocycline to see if that helps with the redness. So should I get rid of washing with the cetaphil all together?
better watch out for candida after u drop the antibiotic
I'm trying this again, for what seems like the fifth time. As I mentioned before, in this thread and others, is the results are good with not washing my face -- but I can't seem to get past the 3/4 day barrier. Either my skin looks too flakey and oily to go to school/work, or I have this obsessive need to wash it.
However, whenever I do wash with cleansers after a period of time, it always looks very good. I've been convinced for awhile my redness/acne is irritation related.
Also, when I say not washing my face I mean not physically touching it with water or a cleanser. Water still trickles down when I'm washing my hair.
What I always go back to is for my entire life I never washed my face. Seriously; never even thought it about. I would always take a shower and, similar to what I'm doing now, let the water run down. Sure, I would still get pimples, but they would come and go. It's when I decided to start treating my entire face around 17 that problems began.
I'm convinced that if I went back to this it would dramatically improve my face, the problem is there will be a period of time where everything purges and it appears worse. If past attempts have proven anything it's inevitable. I'll just have to put up with it, and starting today, that's what I'm doing.
You don't have to stop washing your face completely. The problem most people do is they wash their face/body with warm or hot water. The nature didn't mean for us humans to wash ourselves in hot/warm water.
Most people shower in water with a temperature of 38 degree celsius/100.4 fahrenheit. You can't find as hot water as this in lakes, oceans, rivers etc.
I only take cold showers and I don't use any cleanser. My skin takes no harm from this...
Why am I doing this, honestly, it's because I'm frustrated. I never had acne until turning 20 and am now almost 23, everday I wake up I want to rip my face off and go back to the days when my face was normal. I've tried all different regimens, things that are too harsh dry my face, take a simplistic approach and I have oil and dead skin everywhere. I've been to 3 derms and they all give different things that never really work. I feel like I have every symptom or diet problem that all these forums proclaim and it just makes me crazy to the point that I have no idea what is really good for my face anymore, so basically I'm quitting, since my face doesn't want to be clean and clear than I won't make it, I'm going to teach it a lesson by not washing it for a month starting actually two days ago the 10th. I know that whatever the outcome will be it will be interesting along the way and I'm trying to look at it as a scientific experiment, maybe leaving it alone will help healing weak acne prone skin? who knows, I don't. As of right now my skin isn't breaking out very badly, I never really have bad acne just bad skin texture and little bumps but if I wash too much than I break out. So my nose is oily and has alot of dead skin and my cheeks are oily and have little bumps I have some dry skin around my mouth too, so we'll see what happens when leaving it all alone for a while.
oil and dead skin do not go well together...
it makes me want to exfoliate just reading this!
Update:
Day 10 of not washing (aside from water trickling down in the shower) and the skin buildup is really ridiculous. It's funny, it seemingly occured in one day too. And my left side of the face has much more than the right. I'll probably have to wash it off before Sunday (work), and then begin the cycle again and see if it can be pushed out further. This is about the best I can do for now.
I just keep thinking, I did this for 17 years without any issues -- I doubt 6 years completely changes everything. And by that I mean my face shouldn't all the sudden go from having no issues with flakiness/oil using water only, then all the sudden requiring cleansers. All my problems seemingly began after cleansing/exfoliating/toning/moisturizing my entire face after a few measly pimples sprung up. I understand puberty changes a lot with people, but I had pimples using water -- the issue now with me is skin tone.
I honestly agree with waterwater that what I'm experiencing, as he did, is the skin healing underneath. Similar to him I have this redness around my face (probably a mild case of rosacea) that looks great if I go a few days without washing with a cleanser, and then do so afterwards. I fully expect a great appearance after washing off this shit before work on Sunday.
I've quit counting days now, my main purpose of doing this was to prove to myself that washing my face everyday wasn't going to make my face any clearer and most likely was causing my face to break out even though as mentioned I was only using water! I've quit counting because after ten days my face stopped breaking out, literally I haven't had anything new come up in about a week, since realizing that it makes no sense to "cleanse" one part of your body repeatedly on a daily basis things have been amazing, now I wash my face about once every three or four days even though I don't feel I need to I could go a week without washing and know that things stay the same. Its just all about irritation, whatever you do to clean yourself, if your face ever feels tight or its dry and you need lotion than your irritating your skin, its simple just keep telling yourself less is more and after a while you realize that leaving it alone actually helps more too. Also, I had a ton of dead skin and oil for the first week or so and it didn't make my face break out in those places, its stupid to use something to strip your skin dry in those places and then when the oil comes back just make it a dry blocked mess, just leave your face alone for a while and see what happens I'm very happy with what I've learned in doing this and since my skin is clear now for the first time in years I know that cleaning your face even once a day may be too much for some.
What if you wear makeup?? I suffer from mild chin acne, propably brought on my hormone imbalances. I also have rosacea, so I find the need to cover up areas. I can't remove the makeup without soap.
Kimothy,
1) Just water in the shower always at night, never hot or it dries my skin, for about five seconds without using my hands just let the pressure of the water do its thing, then air dry.
2) I wash my body about every other day, from the beginning I've also been washing my body differently as well, after the first couple of days without washing the face I became really big on the idea of natural oil taking care of your skin so I only use soap and such on the necessary parts, feet armpits etc, and then just let water do the rest, i"ve always had dark skin but still had to use sunscreen, over the last week I haven't put any on and my skin is the tannest its ever been and looks really good not reddish tan its a dark brown I haven't seen since I was a child. But the days I don't want to wash my face and take a shower I just wet the rest of my body.
3)I always have avoided touching my face, but it was pretty hard while doing this because I did have dead skin especially on my nose but I decided not to scrape anything at all because its just added irritation and I believe that underneath what was going on the surface was a healing process I didn't want to disturb, I figure once the skin is healthy underneath, whats on top will go away on its own, and it happened, its now been over two weeks and my nose is completely clear of dead skin and any blemishes, every thing looks normal. So I just try to avoid touching my face with anything.
Also, I'm super incredibly baked right now..... and have been for like three days, first time in two years because it always made me break out within hours, now my face stays perfectly clear. I don't think this will work for everyone, but it fucking works for me, so I party.
OMG, you crack me up! You sound like a cool person "waterwater". I also think your water only regimen is a fantastic idea for everyone to at least try. I know everyone's skin is different, so it obviously wont create good results for everyone, but I really believe it is the key for "curing" many peoples acne! I have been plagued with moderate to severe acne for about 3 months now. Before these past months I have always struggled with an imperfect complexion, but I'd give anything to go back to those days 
Some days my acne hurts/throbs/itches so god damn bad I seriously wonder if its some other kind of infection!? I remember when I was about 18, my skin was at its best. It was PERFECT, even, radiant, and very very tan. I always have tried to figure out what I did then to have it so nice. (p.s I'm 23 now). I always remember that I barely washed it in the shower, and sometime just gently rubbed my shampoo from my head over my face quick. Moisturized afterwards, and that was that. Never washed more then once a day. It was a dramatic change from what I had been doing prior to that. I would scrub the shit outta my face with a loofah and bar soap and then scrub it with Noxzema pads. By the sounds of it, I guess my face started healing from the gentler washing regimen, just as you explained. Even then with the harsh scrubbing, I never had acne, just an uneven slightly zitty face. I have since, my nice face days, used many harsh cleansers and tropicals and such. I really think I have the skin type that would benefit from NOT washing! The craziest thing is, I asked my mother and brother the other night at dinner what they use to clean their faces, and they said WATER! Their faces r flawless mind you!!!! I am really nervous about trying this tho, because I have finally calmed my breaking out slightly with proactiv, and the biggest reason is because I don't feel I should bother, because in 4 days I go to get my Accutane plan setup with my derm. That is a def. acne fix right there pretty much, if I don't get really bad side effects! I am not gonna be able to use anything on my face during the Accutane use, so I will be using only water then, and I will just continue washing with water after im done! Sorry for writing a novel. Just wanted to give waterwater props., and tell a little about my facial infestation!!! 
WOW!!! is all I have to say. I kid you not people. This really works. Honestly at this point I'm starting to question the whole "cause" and "cure" of acne to begin with. I have come up with a little theory of my own. Here it is: In the early stages of acne everyone starts off with one pimple, this one pimple is never bad or obtrusive or irritating but since it is a new thing it makes you self consious. You end up self medicating yourself with all these OTC creams and washes and harsh chemicals which in turn are poisen and make your one pimple into full out acne. It gradually increaes and increases untill it is so over irritated you can no longer controll it. Also using all these OTC soaps and creams ends up drying out your face and removing all the sebum and dead skin. This ends up making your body produce more sebum and clogg your pores even more. So in the end you have a domino effect of the clogging of your skin. Causeing acne.
Thats just my theory.
I have been doing this for a little over one week after suffering from acne for 2 years and I am almost 100% clear already. PEOPLE TRY THIS, YOU"VE GOT NOTHING TO LOOSE.
hey chris, im about 3 days into it and i totally agree with your theory. My skin is a little flakey at the moment but i have faith that it will be able to heal itself naturally..If this works out (which I am confident it will), i'll probably keep this thread alive for a while...let me know how you go!!
There's no way you can be clear in just a week. I did the water only regimen, and am still doing it, but it takes time to see results. I'm never tried NOT washing my face, but I imagine it makes it really oily/dirty feeling. That doesn't mean that its a bad thing, it just means your skin is getting back to normal levels.
HOWEVER, the SECOND MONTH is when I REALLY broke out. Im talking terribly. I assume the same thing might happen to you guys on this so be forewarned. There's no way getting rid of acne is that easy, there is going to be a trial and test period where you have to stand your ground. Your skin can't just heal itself in a week after years of exposure to harsh chemicals, I'm pretty sure there is some sort of "OH SHIT, WE DONT HAVE BP ON US ANYMORE!" reaction by your skin, which is what happened to me in the 2nd month. I still do get breakouts now, but I've realized its more so for the reasons that I wrote on my signature.
HOWEVER, if the reason you get pimples is cuz you overdry your face, then I think this will work great for you.
I'm almost positive it has to do with overirritating, or atleast in my case and probably several others. That first week I did not wash my face just continued to get better and better it was amazing. Then I washed my face on the 6th day and my face was looking even better, then on the seventh I got a little greedy and thought hmm my face looks great and I feel dirty from not washing so much let me just wash again its no big deal. Bam next morning started breaking out all over again. Sooo I guess I'm just going to have to live with dead skin and a bit of flakeness. It is well worth it thou.
Something I didnt know:
How acid mantle is destroyed?
If you strip the skin of its acidic mantle by using strong alkaline soaps/cleansers, bacteria will find it easy to attack the skin. Moreover removing the acid mantle disturbs the distribution of dead cells on top of epidermis. This is called stratum corneum. The structure of cells in the dead skin cells layer gets disturbed and the bacteria find an easy passage through to the epidermis. Normally these dead cells protect the skin against such damages. The skin is a miracle. These dead cells if allowed to accumulate will make the skin look very bad, but if totally removed, the skin is left defenseless to an extent.
This is where i am at the moment..quite a bit of dead cells but this time im going to leave them and not use anything (including moisturizer). I think my skin is thanking me to be honest
I started battling a mild case of acne at age 22 after having a laser hair removal procedure done on my face. Throughout my teenage years I always had really good skin. I began using all different types of cleansers, and different regimens with all of them making the acne worse or just keeping it under control. I got so fed up recently that I also decided to stop washing my face completely. After TWO DAYS of this practice all my acne went away literally. It was crazy to say the least. It's been a month and I haven't washed my face since. Occasionally I use an exfoliating sponge with nothing on it and rub around. Good luck waterwater, hope it's all workin out for you~!
Something I didnt know:
How acid mantle is destroyed?
If you strip the skin of its acidic mantle by using strong alkaline soaps/cleansers, bacteria will find it easy to attack the skin. Moreover removing the acid mantle disturbs the distribution of dead cells on top of epidermis. This is called stratum corneum. The structure of cells in the dead skin cells layer gets disturbed and the bacteria find an easy passage through to the epidermis. Normally these dead cells protect the skin against such damages. The skin is a miracle. These dead cells if allowed to accumulate will make the skin look very bad, but if totally removed, the skin is left defenseless to an extent.
This is where i am at the moment..quite a bit of dead cells but this time im going to leave them and not use anything (including moisturizer). I think my skin is thanking me to be honest
Thats really interesting. I'm going to look more into that and how it works.
this post is like a sign from god.
Basically waterwater i feel 100% the exact same as you. Wishing i could go back to before i started using my first bp cleanser because i had like 1 spot. over 2.5 years of just doing so much crap to my facial skin it is insanely damaged. terrible txture insanely greasy redness mild scarring etc. im always looking for a better treatment ive gone from BP to simple clean and clear cleansers to lemons to salt water to baking in the sun. all these adding to the crappiness of my skin and not solving my initial problem just making it worse. through my experience not doing anything to my face just ignoring has always helped. before my BP usage i probably went days on end w/o washing my face not knowing of course, but mainly not caring.
im absolutely going to go ahead with not washing my face to see what happens. I Truly believe my face Needs to be healed so the grease that generates on my skin soaks into my skin to make it healthy and glowing and normal. i just want to stop thinking about my skin 24/7 im so sick of it.
this post is insanely badly written sorry