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hey, i've been using only water for the past 5-6 days now and it's working out great. I'd say the hardest thing for me to stay away from is manual exfoliation. I still have some small flakes and some gunk inside my pores (especially on and around my nose). Oh and these little white hair-like things on my chin. It seems to be getting better though. I actually stopped doing anything but washing with Cetaphil since the 5th, so about 3 weeks ago. You say you wash with a mild soap once a week? So the other 6 days it's strictly water?
Yes the other days are strictly water. I find using too much soap actually contributed to blackhead formation.
The skin will try to regulate its own sebum/oil production which it should be allowed to do.
Today morning outside temperature in Melbourne is 8.2 degree C. It is a dull cloudy day like yesterday.
Not much sunlight.
Inside my house it is a comfortable 22 degree C
I have breakfast cerial, brush my teeth, go to toilet and
have a plain warm water shower, no soap, no shave.
Face Skin is OK, no additional problems.
The inflammed lump near my jawline has gone away. I did absolutely nothing. It had been reducing over the previous days.
It is now 9 degree C this evening and already dark at 5:45 pm. In a few hours my body hormone Melatonin will induce drowiseness asking me to sleep.
I am having Dinner early now.
and my last shower......
Today morning I check skin.
No new problems.
I have plain warm water shower, no soap, no shave
this seems to be working well for your blackheads, what do you think it could do for whiteheads? and the other more regular pimples
Yes, it will work with whiteheads.
Like with most natural methods you must be patient and give it time.
The improvements will be permanent i.e the acne will not come back.
Try to combine it with the suggestions of this guy-link given below.
I have tried to get some mild sunlight on my skin everyday.
From today onwards, I resume workouts and bodybuilding very slowly.
I will expect and be ready for some reaction from weight lifting.
Some more acne or more blackheads.
However the key is to shower immediately after weightlifting with plain warm water.
More rest and sleep now becomes important.
I expect it to take at least 7 years before I build a strong good muscular body.
I will therefore update this thread only thrice a week as I need more time for myself.
Keep us posted with your progress
I am on the correct path.
Simple methods prevent skin trauma and milia, blackhead/ pimple formation.
Can already see results.
blackheads dont comeoff naturally.if left untrearted and didnt get inflammed can stay on your skin for decades and thts a medically proven fact
Six natural exfoliations i.e around six months as the dead sink cells of epidermis are naturally replaced every 28 days.
Results will be even better in a year.
The epidermis on face = only 0.02 mm thick.
Do not tell me you exfoliate with strong acids deeper than 0.02 mm i.e remove the entire epidermis and get into raw living dermis region of the skin ?
The epidermis contains 5 layers. From bottom to top the layers are named stratum basale, stratum spinosum, stratum granulosum, stratum licidum, and stratum corneum. The bottom layer, the stratum basale, has cells that are shaped like columns. In this layer the cells divide and push already formed cells into higher layers. As the cells move into the higher layers, they flatten and eventually die. The top layer of the epidermis, the stratum corneum, is made of dead, flat skin cells that shed about every 2-4 weeks.
Skin consists of a tough connective tissue, the dermis, overlaid by a multilayered waterproof epithelium, the epidermis. The epidermis is continually renewed from stem cells, with a turnover time, in humans, of the order of a month. Stem cells, by definition, are not terminally differentiated and have the ability to divide throughout the lifetime of the organism, yielding some progeny that differentiate and others that remain stem cells. The epidermal stem cells lie in the basal layer, attached to the basal lamina. Progeny that become committed to differentiation go through several rapid divisions in the basal layer, and then stop dividing and move out toward the surface of the skin. They progressively differentiate, switching from expression of one set of keratins to expression of another until, eventually, their nuclei degenerate, producing an outer layer of dead keratinized cells that are continually shed from the surface.
Your method only apply to certain blessed people who have dry skin.
No it applies to everybody.
You skin will adjust automatically.
Im not saying that this wont work for you or others but I dont think you can say that it will work for everyone. As a teenager the only blemishes I really had were blackheads and I never put anything on them...Ive had them since the age of 12. There was no natural healing, exfoliation, or adjustment period.
However, I do hope that this works for you.