I just think people that use products on their skin will never be clear. Everyone I know that uses products, not many, has acne (mild/minimum) but it never clears them up 100%. I think it's just something stuck in the head that you need to use soaps/products to clean it up. Sea Water will be good, however the reason I think it is so effective at the beach is due to the sunlight, the sweating from being hot on the beach, and then opening the pores, and then swimming in the warm/hot sea water that gets into the pores. Just splashing/soaking your face is not the same thing. Usually when I go to the beach I swim for a good 45 minutes, which really really gets my skin soft/clean, and before I swim I do a lay out for about 1 hr. So, if you are going to use Sea Salt, it would be best to do it after you sweat and to soak for a good long while.

Another great alternative are steams. Boil water, mix in 1/2 cup of sea salt, dissolve in a large mixing bowl. Take a towel, place your face right above the bowl, several inches, and place the towel over your head, steam until water goes cold (usually 10 minutes). This works very very nicely.

DAY 18

ok i dont know what it is but im breaking out.. i honestly do not think its from the hibiclens but i have no idea.. and its not as bad as it was before hibiclens but i can definately tell that i am breaking out.. i didnt start the sea salt just yet because i got a prescription of finacea! ive read such great reviews on this product working to kill all kinds of acne AND fades redmarks! WHAT thats some miracle gel right there.. anyways im picking it up in about 30 minutes from the pharmacist i really hope this plus hibiclens combined will help completely make my tone smooth and face acne plus redmark free.. im going to spot test it all day today then tonight im going to slather it on full face.. good luck to me! also if i do not breakout from finacea im planing on doing the sea salt soaks more than like next week. because i still need hope for these clogged closed comedones.. anyways good luck everyone.

I hate to keep sounding you off, I mean you well, but I really doubt it will. That is the cycle that goes hand in hand with products man. They always get your hopes up, you stick with them even if you start to breakout and in no time your skin is destroyed.

DAY 18 -HIBICLENS

DAY 1 -FINACEA

i just applied my very first treatment of finacea.. it says its a gel but it was more like a liquidy white cream.. anyways i applied a thin layer to my redmarks and a few new raised bumps that i got a few days ago as a test patch. pretty much covering the entire right side of my (infected area) im going to go with this all day and see how it goes if i dont breakout at all to it or get any irritation anything like that then i am going to apply it to my whole face tonight.. wish me luck guys. i will keep this in my hibiclens log as well.. so far i just applied it about 2 secs ago and i can already feel the slight tingeling sensation.. kind of like tiny tiny little pricks every few seconds.. anyways its not too bad ill update tomorrow.

DAY 19 -HIBICLENS

DAY 2 -FINACEA

there has not been much change yet in my face execpt the fact that i did not breakout at all with finacea! im so happy too! i would have died if i started breaking out.. i apply it twice a day.. it leaves a nice white tint which helps temporarily cover the redmarks while its healing them at the same time say thats a bonus! it definately takes the redness out of my face just after one application.. it stings wuite a bit but if your a man you should be able to take it for about 5 10 mins.. anyways not much of a huge difference yet

OH ALSO i forgot i was thinking the other night.. hmm ive been using hibiclens and it worked so good when i started why would i get a breakout all of a sudden... i havent changed anything.. WELL guess what.. a few days before i had the minor breakout i 1)had a wet dream which i feel contributed a tad bit to acne seems how ive been abstaning jerking it for more than 35 days but 2) i had a smoothie the other night for desert! my mom makes these delicious strawberry smoothies and the first time i had one i did not breakout.. so a week later she made me another one i drank it and the next day plus a few more days was when the most recent breakout i had happened.. i thought about it.. my mom used ICE CREAM this time.. and last time it had no ice cream just orange juice.. thanks alot mom.. i put 2 and 2 together first i broke out from yogurt now icecream.. im definately doomed from dairy! i will never eat dairy again as long as i have acne.. maybe if im completely clear one day i will try ice cream again but after these two breakouts i cant risk it right now.. im finally healing up from the breakouts though THANK GOD

if i have anything to update by tonight i will. tootles

MORNING

DAY 20 -HIBICLENS/ i got some in my eye.... i was cleansing in the shower like usually and some how a tiny bit leaked into the corner of my left eye.. as soon as i felt it stinging i washed off my whole face and rinsed out my eye i was pretty scared.. i looked in the mirror and you can see the slightest red veins in the bottom corner it doesnt really sting or burn much anymore at all its been about ten mins after my shower and my eye sight isnt blurry or anything at all like that.. i just hope it idnt o any damage im going to check on it every hour of today im hoping that the redness just goes away the stinging has already left.

DAY 3 -FINACEA

HOLY CRAP! this stuff believe it or not IS WORKING already! especially when i wake up in the morning (my redmarks already look better becaue my eyes adjust to the light) but still they look even whiter than noral and even during the day they look like theyve lightened up already! i seriously cant believe its only been 2 FULL days! it has not done much for my red raised patches that i have yet except take the redness down. but i had about 5 zits that were turning into scabs when i started finacea and they are all already gone and healed up now i have about 3 closed comedones that are in the process of surfacing and i can tell finacea is stopping them in they tracks AND making them not inflammed so it just looks like regular zits without any redness at all. THANK GOD because they are right on my lip.. it sucks i always get these closed comedones right on my lip and when they surface they look like herpes its so embarrasing... i just really hope finacea completely destroys them for good! but over all just after 2 days i can tell that its working i would not say that theres a HUGE difference yet.. but thats obvious there wouldnt be but i can definately tell its working and im very excited to see what my face looks like in a few weeks! im just really excited to know that its helping with my redmarks! they were the worst thing about my acne! i can deal with a few pimples here and there but the redmarks just make it look like i had acne all over which i dont! im hoping and praying that it clears up my skin entirely! im so tired of hiding from the world for these past 4 months... im too much fun to ignore my friends! Have a good day!

Great stuff bro, keep up the good work! yah man I hate having to stay in on weekends too....although I've plenty study to do so I've an excuse plus "I'm underage for pubs and nightclubs", eventhough I've been drinking pretty heavily since I was 15 ....my skin is starting to clear up too thank god! The red marks are slowly fading day by day. Oh and I think I've eliminated another probable cause of my acne (I hope it's a cause in one way). You know I said ages back I never get spots on my forehead?? Well I was thinking the other day why so? It's not that I use no cleanser on it because I've tried that on the rest of my skin and to no avail...then it hit me, my towel!! DETERGENT!! It could be irratating my skin. I never scrub my face with my towel after a shower put I pat the excess water away....but again I don't go near my forehead with my towel for some reason....so yah for the last day and a bit I've stopped using a towel on my face. Hopefully I'm right by doing this I'll keep you posted on it anyway...

Peace king!

hey bro glad to hear youre clearing up unfortunately im having a crappy day with my redmarks they look worse then when i started finacea y face looks insanely blotchy im not getting much new acne but my redmarks are really getting me down..

anyway about the towel i was totally thnking about that as well, let me know how it goes i may start aair drying my face as well bro good luck!

Head up man we all have those days ...for some reason I've got two fleshy red painful pimples around the jaw area in the last day or so...they'll be gone by Tuesday but still they're bothering me you know? Plus I've a week off school, eventhough I'll be studying mad, so I don't have to be so conscious about my skin (and I always clear up when I'm off school) Yah I just saw someone saying detergent could cause skin irratation and I was like oh shit why didn't I think of that!! My skin feels so good now like an hour after showering. Must be like more moisture allowed absorb or something I'm thinking of starting one of these logs actually just for posting progress purposes...

Good luck bro

Haha I just hope it's a little bit of a success and helps at least one person because I do think it works as long as you keep with it but whatever!!

They are stubborn little fuckers alright...mine are fading pretty well, the ones I had when I first came here back in January are nearly gone now. I'm thinking it's a combo between exfoliation, Sudocrem (zinc) and H&S which could be like "burning" them off. And healthy diet has some part. Realistically, I'd like to nearly clear by March, at least restricting breakouts to one pimple a week at least...I can wait until May for redmarks because I'll be doing nothing exciting except studying up to June :L...good luck bro!

dude you are lucky! my marks from december are still here.. although there were a bunch of pimples that formed on top of the marks even after they were beginning to heal mayb thats why they are taking so long to leave... i guess from my pictures i could say redness went down a lot but thats mainly because i had a ton of inflammed pimples before now just red marks but im really hoping to be clear of them or atleast a good bit faded by the end of feb.. i dont want to wait any longer than that man!

DAY 24 -HIBICLENS

1 WEEK -FINACEA

well hibiclens definately seems to be not really healing my inflammed acne like it used to.. granted it doesnt seem to be producing more anc elessions but the same ones ive had since like a week ago are still around.. my face is starting to get a little more dry with the addition of finacea since last week but im going to tough it out

also no improvements yet that ive noticed with finacea.. after i get out of the shower though and wash finacea off my redmarks look SO WHITE like seriously almost like they are completely gone.. then i put finacea on and there they are again.. i cant really tell if they are fading at all yet.. i was getting mad because i havent seen much progress but i cant get mad yet im going to stick it out for atleast 3 weeks and im really hoping i see at least SOME KIND OF improvement in a few more days to 2 weeks.. im really hoping i can see something.. also it doesnt seem to be doing much for my old acne lessions either.. it DID bring up some very minor clogged pores to the surface when i say this i mean these new surfaced pimples were so tiny i cold almost have just scratched them right off but i didnt.. and they got brought up and healed withing 2 days almost VERY quick healing.. im still getting a few more as of right now but they are all those tiny ones so im thinking anything that gets brought up is going to heal and fade all within the 2 day time frame.. at least that what im hoping and expecting from the experienece with these others. so ill be back in a few more days to update.. im trying REALLY hard not to look at my face 24/7 because that just makes me not ever be able to tell if im improving.. also im noticing that im getting a few more clogged pores lately only in specific areas.. im not sure if its from hibiclens or finacea or neither of them.. maybe they are forming on their own who knows but ive been using clean and clear morning burst bursting beads on my chin (cluster of whiteheads) for a little over a week and they are almost all gone so im thinking i may use the morning burst on my entire face for a week and see how it goes.. im afraid to use it around areas that i still have active inflammed acne though.

I'm little bit worried that hibiclens will be immune to our acne if we use it every day. Have you experienced that hibiclens is not working? I'm worried it's just like BP which is at first is working like a miracle. What about German products called Sebamed? It says that the pH is 5.5. I use Sebamed for body wash and it's good (I no longer experience dry and itchy skin on my body). They also have Sebamed Clear Face range for acne, haven't tried it since I still have my usual face wash.

 

Sebamed is a very great cleanser for acne prone skin as it is gentle and doesn't cause the skin to dry. I used it when I was 18 (now i'm) 25. I did used their clear face range too but only the cleanser because the toner and moisturizer kinda oily to me.

How ya doing bro?? Seeing improvements I hope....how's the no towel thing coming along? It's going pretty well for me I must say....sickened I didn't think of it earlier!!

Later man

hey bro im not seeing really much improvements yet which is rather discouraging but im trying really hard to stick it out alot of people using finacea siad that saw huge improvements after 2 weeks which im getting close to so im just telling myself in 2 weeks i will start to look better! with the towel thing im not sure how its doing ive only been doing the towel thing for a few days mayb 2 or 3 im still get a few pimples every now and then and ive noticed im getting more clogged pores which SUCKS.. but i just started using the exflo on my pper cheek bones(new clogged pore) and im really hoping it will clear them up and not aggravate them.

1 week 3 days - FINACEA

ive still gotten a few new pimples.. they go away withing 3 days but they still leave huge ugly red marks.. also im beginning to get extrememyl dry in sensative areas where i apply the finacea i think i may start using a moisturizer on top of the finacea most peple said they needed to do that.. im scared to though because i almost never ever use moisturizer on my face because i think that it clogs my pores and breaks me out.. but im going to have to start moisturizing if i want to continue with 2x a day with finacea.. i may just apply only once a day if it keeps getting worse. im going to start using my exflo on the dry patches and see if that helps at all. one wierd thing last night i put a dab of honey on a patch of dry skin that i had last night and i fet that hurting throb feeling when you know theres about to be a huge people come on and i took off the honey on that pimple about 2 mins later it was HUGE it had a tiny head but the bump surrounding the pimple looked like i got stung by a bee.... and it was throbbing still.. as soon as i put finacea on it the throbbing went away and the bump around the pimple is gone this morning now its just a tiny head.. i dont get it this is the same honey i always used.. idk mayb just because its been so long since ive used it? idk.. anyway no realy improvements yet with finacea..

the only thing ive noticed is that it brought my clogged pores to a head withing days and took about 3 days to completely be gone.. which is a fast healing improvement but they still leave behind redmarks.. i was hoping that since i was treating the pimple with finacea that it would not allow the pimples to leave redmarks.. sigh i was wrong. also im not positive.. but i think my redmarks have lightened up a bit mayb about.. 15% literally. i can definiately still see them but i dont think they pop out as much and as red as before.. which is col im hping they start to really fade alot by the 2 week mark im praying that finacea works because im so tired of acne.. and im upset that im still getting new bumps even though im on a treatment.. also im about to run out of hibiclens i need to go buy more but im running out of money! i dont want to use my old cleanser because i think it strips my acid mantle and hibiclens does not.. any ways thats about it for updates.. still getting pimples.. not huge blemishes like before but within this week on finacea ive gotten about 10 new pimples just on their own and im left with about 5 id say which are healing. they came at different times.. fortunately they are not those huge rash like lumps i used to get spread across my whole cheek but im still upset that they are forming.. and ive definately increased in clogged pores i just dont know what to do about those.. praying that the exflo takes care of them... ill update on the 2 week mark period wish me luck that it will start to perform miracles

2 weeks - FINACEA

so its officially been 2 weeks. im still not seeing HUGE iprovements just yet.. i mean i guess its taking some of the redness out of my marks. it doesnt seem to prevenet pimples though im still getting pimples here and there. and because of that i went to look for a spot treamtent. i bought tea tree oil. it did nothing for my pimples. so then i bought persa gel 10% BP holy crap biggest mistake of my life. i used it last night once and it burned my face.. now i have a huge red burn on my chin im trying to treat it now with triple antibiotic ointment and i really hope it fades the redness down by tomorrow because it looks really really bad and just makes my acne loook even better..

i guess ill just stick with finacea and hope that it starts to prevent pimples soon. overall i can still see everyone last one of my redmarks none of them have dissapeared yet but i can tell that yes they are fading.. i was just hoping that atleast one of them would be gone by now its rather annoying.. but im thinking within another week or 2 mayb they will start to dissapear.. my overall face redness has decreased though and the acnethat i do STILL have.. isnt irrtated. so thats my update. and im still using hibiclens it seems to be slowly not working anymore on inflamed acne as well. i started patch testing blackhead scrub also about a few days ago so far its not breaking me out. im mainly going to use this to get rid of my close comedones i hate clogged pores with a passion.

wow thank God that the triple antibiotic ointment took all the redness out of that burn! by the mid of the day the redness was gone although it sucks because it clogged my pores!!!!!!!! i can see a bunch of closed comedones now where i put the ointment and its rather annoying. although im very thankful that it did heal the burn so quickly! im really hoping that my finacea tonight will clear those clogged pores out by the morning i HATE CLOSED COMEDONES they are worse than inflamed acne because they never surface and just linger there for weeks and you can see bumps in the skin.

about mid da i noticed that my overall skin was actually looking much better (faded redmarks) they are all still there but now they just look like spots not dark red blood marks like they usually look. so i can tell that finacea is living up its rep finally! im very happy and im very excited to see what my marks will look like by week 3! my appt for the derm is the 28th and im really hoping that my acne and marks are completely gone by then because i would much rather not take the trip to him and get prescribed some outragrous pricey medicine that will only make me worse. so im really praying that finacea completely works for me

ill update again in a few more days thanks guys!

Right for me.. i used to have really bad skin when i hit 11/12 im 18 now. I have tried so many products on my skin that had made it worse. Im black. I have now after years of trying found my solution.

When i hit 16 my spots stopped coming on a daily basis (i used to wake up with loads of spots and end up with even more before i went to bed). I was so happy that it had stopped and i only now get it when im about to go on my periods. But now its rare.

After years of squeezing & picking at my spots i was left with dark black marks/scars where my spots used to be & i tried my best trying to get rid of it.

What i did before?

I used to wash my face with soap

Use vaseline on my face which clogged up my pores

Never drink water

Be out in the sun all the time

Use dettol which burned my skin

Use lemon juice (the ones from the supermarkets)

Bad i know but i tried everything

What i do now?

I now drink plenty of water even if its just 3-4 glasses of water a day its more than i used to

I use shea butter unrefined (its the 1 that looks like a block) i use it twice a day after ive washed my face its only 1 and lasts forever

I use tea tree oil exfoiliating wash the 1 with walnut grans & peppermint instead which i got from superdrug for 3.99 i use this twice a day

I use tea tree oil only 15% & i also use it twice a day after i put on the shea butter, shea butter is great for fading away the black marks & tea tree oil is great for smoothing out my skin & making it glow, it minimises my pores, however it does have a strong smell but works wonders, this was only 3.99 from holland & barretts

I use a juice of a half cut lemon, i put brown sugar in it because brown sugar is much thicker and helps remove dead skin cells, what i do is mix the two and get cotton balls and work it into my skin i leave it for 10-15 mins then wash off with COLD water i find that cold water awakens my face and feels fresh and alive. I do this once a week

I eat alot of oranges which apparantly good but this isnt regular

I also take vitamins, before i go to bed.

Results?

Amazing results and my scars are fading really quickly i started this regimen in jan 2012 so recently so imagine what it'll look like if i carry on. & i must say it works great with my skin. I dont hardly get spots anymore, if i do its really small & it goes within a few hours of using tea tree oil. My skin isnt oily or dry its ok, i just love it now and ask people to try it.

Recommended by?

I got recommended by my mum, collegues at work & me.

thats awesome to hear you found your regimen! im so happy that youre clear. i actually bought raw african black soap have yet to get the shae butter but i was to chicken to actually try it out. i heard shae butter really clogged some peoples pores up thats why i never started and using the black soap alone is extrememly drying. i have a derm appt this tuesday i was really hoping i wouldnt have to go on antibiotics but it looks like i may just have to.. fiancea is helping with my redmarks but its definitely not preventing pimples or healing them faster from what i can tell and it does nothing for my clogged pores/closed comedones.. anyway i do have 100% tto i tried spot treating with it (diluted) and didnt see any improvements so i kinda gave up and im planning to return it for my money.

Update: im about 2 weeks and 3/4 days in finacea and to be honest some days my marks look like theyre only 10% noticable like they are almost gone completely then after i eat and by the end of the night they are more darker than all day long.. i dont know what it is ive been eating a bit more junk lately so that could be the cause of the few more pimples that ive gotten throughout this experience. but finacea definitely isnt preventing them. im still getting new pimples since the start its very annoying.. and my closed comedones and doing nothing but waiting and eventually surfacing.. sucks then when they are healed theres still a closed comedone in its place LIKE WHAT THE @#$%#^$^ seriously they dont go away even after surfacing this is bull man...so im going to the beach tomorrow to hopefully get some salt water on my face and sun hoping it will do some good. ive read so many reviews that the beach clears ppl up and in the summer i never have acne. so im going to tomorrow because im getting mor red bumps that im hoping the sea water will stop in their track.. im going to use a bit of sunscreen on my marks even though i hate sunscreen and never used to wear it before acne.. but i dont want to cause PIH from being stupid. i heardd that the salt water might not help if you go after it rains which i hope isnt true because it did rain a tad bit today and i think yesterday.. so i really hope that it does not effect my salty ocean water! wish me luck guys me and my dog are going to have a nice 62 degree partly sunny day at the beach tomorrow from 10am-4pm atleast! lol i really hope it helps.. i need it im desperate and do not want to take antibiotics from the derm.

went to the beach yesterday it was party cloudy so it wasnt as warm as i thought it would be. i stayed there for about 3 hours or so and while i was there i splashed the freezing cold water on my face a good 20 times (not all at once, different times of the day) and let it air dry in the sun. i didnt get any sun at all which i was kinda hoping i would to blend in these redmarks.. over all i highly doubt it helped my acne and marks at all. i wouldnt say it really did damage either. but i still have some marks on my chin i could already tell would surface by the night and i was hoping that a little sea water would maybe make them dissapear. nope they still surface by that night.. if anything i think the sun may have made my red marks darker again.. maybe about 20% darker then before i went to the beach.. i suppose if i had gotten a slight tan you wouldnt be able to tell but seems how my face didnt burn or tan at all.. the marks just look like they stand out a bit more.. i may go to the beach again wed and thurs. then again sat sunday and monday because its supposed to be sunny and high temps. i figure i could more than likely get a tan by monday and be good to go! but i would rather not risk making my marks darker and darker

so basically the update is hat my marks are a tad slightly darker and im still getting pimples mainly only on my chin area.. the clogged closed comedones i have on my upper cheekbones and surprisingly getting less.. im not sure whats helping them but somthing is.. unfortunately i have a derm appt this tuesday that has been scheduled since i started finacea on the first day. i was really hoping to be completely clear of pimples and redmarks before it came up but unfortunately im not.. he is more than likely ging to prescribe me an antibiotic and its going to interfere with my regime with finacea.. so idk what is going to happen and im extrememly dreaded of an IB and i hear that if you start taking antibiotics and stop even after a few days your acne gets terrible. so im going to try and have a long talk with who ever my derm is and tell him right from the start. LOOK i research acne for a freaking living! and im not going to put up with lies! so you tell me the TRUTH! GIVE ME SOMETHING THAT WILL CURE MY FACE DANG IT! lol no thats probably not going to happen but im definitely going to tell him that ive done my fair share of research and im going to tell him that i either want bactrim(works the best but has allergy side effects..) or doxycycline...(takes for ever to start for most people) i really want bactrim because its supposed to be the fastest acting antibiotic out there(according to the reviews on the org) but apparently 5-10% of people are allergic and can even develop Steven Johnson Syndrom.. thats some scary crap man.. and by the reviews it actually looked as if 50% of the reviews were allergic..!!!! what the heck man.. but the other 50% said it cleared them in a matter of a week and stayed that way.. man with reviews like that its really hard to not want to give it a go! plus no IB! thats really tempting.. but seriously i just wish i didnt need any antibiotics or any treatment i just wish finacea would freaking work and i could rely on this for ever if i had to but i dont want to take antibiotics then develop resistance and have acne come back later.. plus it kills your gut so i would have t start taking probiotics like crazy.. man i just dont know what to do.. the doc is obviously going to have to give me something and i really do not want another topical because ive read on here that almost every single person with topicals breakouts with a terrible ib.. who wants to try a new product when you read reviews from people on this very same board youre on that say its a terrible product but 1 month later cleared everything up... like seriously come on.. any way sorrry i just had to vent.. im tired of this..

3 week mark is in 2 days with finacea

unfortunately im still getting pimples.red marks have faded to some extent but still exist this is making me so mad..

now i have a derm appt tomorrow and my health insurrance doesnt want to pay for any more prescriptions what the heck..

ive done m research and the only thing im willing to accept is bactrim and benzac 2.5% everything else prescribed sounds like crap and wont work anyways

so we'll see what my new to be derm classifies my acne as. im going to let her know that ive done a ton of research and want her to tell me the truth on acne seriously.

ill report tomorrow morning with what i get.. heres to wishful thinking.. pray for me

Still using chemicals I see....

hey, same as mine. I ordered african black soap and now I'm afraid to try it. I read on the net, people said it's good but it can be drying (I have sensitive skin so I'm a bit worried). have you tried it? anyway, I went to another derm and she prescribed clindamycin 300 mg. It works. I heard about bactrim but I'm bit afraid since bactrim is used mostly to treat pneumonia and other diseases.

hey, same as mine. I ordered african black soap and now I'm afraid to try it. I read on the net, people said it's good but it can be drying (I have sensitive skin so I'm a bit worried). have you tried it? anyway, I went to another derm and she prescribed clindamycin 300 mg. It works. I heard about bactrim but I'm bit afraid since bactrim is used mostly to treat pneumonia and other diseases.

 

no way i have never tried it. i have a HUGE block of that soap sitting in my bathroom unopened haha i was prescribed doxycycline so i hope it works ive read way to many reviews fluctuating good and bad on the org.. i really did not want to start taking antibiotics but doctors know best.. any ways i pray it workse.

update: 2 weeks 6 days -Finacea

Day 1 - Doxycycline

finacea is still fading my redmarks i can tell it really is and i havent gotten a new pimple on the huge areas on my cheeks where i apply it at all but recenelty i havent been putting it on my chin and im still getting minor breakouts. im really praying the doxy just eliminates the few pimples from the inside from the start and i wont have to worry about finacea working on acne and just worry about it clearing redmarks from now on. pray for me everyone! i hope this is the last of my worries with acne.

Still using chemicals I see....

 

yeah man because i tried not washing before and my face is definitely a lot better now than it was then. im just still getting minor pimples.

not washing may have worked for you but maybe you just grew out of acne bro? i mean you eat whatever you want and dont breakout. ive come to realize that when i eat mad junk food i sprout up new pimples within days. when i eat crazy healthy my acne stays clear for weeks. so i know were different bro. water only brought hell to my face and im still paying for it because i have the same clogged comedones that i got from when i did water only. fortunately hibiclens completely ate away all the huge breakouts that water only gave me but it hasnt helped the clogged comedones. right now i have about 20% acne on my face and thats from using chemicals. i had about 80% acne when i used water only. so the way i see it is that the chemicals are helping bro.