Vitamin d3 helped me.

Could you tell me how much you took?

And how was your oily skin before and after taking it?

Cheers mate

I am on 1000 IU daily. Before instantly after washing my face, my skin starts oiling up. But now its much better no more oil.

Vitamin d3 plus I stopped drinking milk. I found out that dairy and meat, makes my skin oily so I stopped. and now its much much better.

I think i agree with you.

When i am home i tend to drink coffee with lots of milk. When i am out of the house or doing something away from home, my skin is less oily. Im surprised as i was thinking this just yesterday.

I also tried vitamin d3. My skin was much oiler at start but i never continued with it for more than a week and a half, i may try it again and see how it works out.

Im on lemon capsules at the moment and my skin has become oily throughout the day from when i since showered. I took two capsules last night when and two today.

I want to go give it a good month or two before i stop or till i see results.

But yes i believe milk is also the cause of oily skin for myself.

Taking a multivitamin for skin hair and nails helps alot too. Feeds skin and helps it fight acne.

A clay mask will absorb excess oil. I use Aztec secret Indian healing clay from sprouts market. Mixed with water or raw organic Apple cidar vinegar. After gently washing it off with warm water (not too hot) use a cloth soaked in hot water, ring it out a bit and place over face. Repeat a few times. This opens the pores to be cleared. Then tone face. I use Humphreys brand citrus witch hazel oil controlling toner from sprouts. Use a small amount on a cotton ball. The final step important not to skip is moisturizing. This indeed is important even for oily skin. (to balance your skin DO NOT overwash or scrub hard as it will irritate and dry out causing your skin to produce more oil to overcompensate for the dryness. I have oily skin and consulted with a skin specialist also have had facials such help too) anyways, make sure you do not use cream. Use lotion or moisturizer that is non-pore clogging a.k.a. "non-comedogenic" I use LA ROCHE-POSAY EFFACLAR MAT daily moisrurizer. It is anti shine and anti enlarged pores. From Ulta. If u use foundation choose a mattifying powder. I use mareminerals mat formula loose powder and finishing powder in compact. Ive tried ALOT of products and these are best for me. Keep the receipts if they don't work, return it. Hope any of this was helpful to anyone.

A clay mask is useless against oily skin, anything external is useless against oily skin. You can do whatever you want to remove that sebum off your skin, it will come back in a matter of hours because your skin is producing sebum at a constant rate under the influence of male hormones.

All topicals are useless to treat oily skin, it can only be fought with internal treatments.

A mask clay is useless against oily skin, anything external is useless against oily skin. You can do whatever you want to remove that sebum off your skin, it will come back in a matter of hours because your skin is producing sebum at a constant rate under the influence of male hormones.

All topicals are useless, to treat oily skin, it can only be fought with internal treatments.

fred does speak the truth , having tried a million products for my oily nose I give up!, I would try a ultra low dose of accutane but being in the UK the doctor is never going to give it to me I just blot it very couple of hours with a very thin piece of tissue very effective lol

YAZ birth control (sorry I think you are a guy) but this is for the ladies that happen to view the thread

I have oily skin and acne.

Going to see a dermatologist for acne soon but I was wondering what skin products do oily skin acne sufferers use and to what extent have they helped? Thanks!

Everything's in this topic:

In short, you have high doses of vitamin A, vitamin B5, and of course low-dose accutane.

During the summer i stayed in my home country for 3 months. The air there is very dry and theres very low humidity. Also i spent most of the day inside with the AC blasting. And AC is a dehumidifier.

Living in low humidity cured both my oily skin and redness on my face. My skin looked amazing. But now that I'm back in the states, in winter where i can't use AC, both my oily skin and redness came back. Now i'm trying to figure out what the hell to do about it.

Should i invest in a dehumidifier? I'm almost certain it'll work but i don't know if the effects of it will last throughout the day when i'm not in my house.

Environement has no effect on your sklin's sebum production, this was all in your mind.

How many times do we have to repeart the same thing over and over again.

Sebum production is influenced by your male hormones and your male hormones only.

The rest is just speculation and not back-up by science.

Environement has no effect on your sklin's sebum production, this was all in your mind.

How many times do we have to repeart the same thing over and over again.

Sebum production is influenced by your male hormones and your male hormones only.

The rest is just speculation and not back-up by science.

Dude thats not true. For me, less humidity helps me completely. How in the world are you going to say its in my mind where i have many before and after pictures.

I suffer from pcos and I can tell you diet does have something to do with how oily my skin is. Sugars and complex carbs spike insulin levels which in turn messes with hormone levels. This is all information from my doctors and actually since I have been following the diet they gave me a lot of my symptoms have subsided. Oily skin included in that. You may be partially correct in your theory but don't be so ignorant to other people's experiences...

You can say whatever you want, in the end, the truth is that nothing ou say here is back-up by peer-reviewed science.

People's "experiences" on the internet don't mean anything. Anybody can write anything they want on the web.

Anyway, either you stick to the facts or you believe everything you read on the web, it's up to you.

If you want to waste time, money, energy, and possibly your dignity (people sometimes put urine on their faces out of desperation) trying things that aren't proven to work, then by all means, don't hesitate.

I'm just trying to help people here. And often, helping means telling the cold hard truth: you won't get your oily skin under control with an air conditionner, and you won't get it under control through lifestyle or diet.

Fred u are just flat out wrong. Different things help different people, not one thing works for everyone as the "science based" techniques u write about.

I'm not saying low humidity works for everyone, but i know for a hundred percent it cured both my oily skin and redness. But whatever dude stick to what u believe i dont really care.

What I believe? Once again, it's not about beliefs here, it's about reality, science, facts.

You can't argue with science. The acne.org main discourse is based on science. You've to give Dan the props for that.

He's never defended the "diet affects acne" or anything that wasn't proven. But I guess that a lot of people just want to believe in pretty lies.

For more useful tips for oily skin check out this blog [url removed] like and follow for more skin care tips.

Personal experience,

I made an oat scrub

Ingredients:

-about 1-2 table spoons of oats

-a small amount of honey ( enough to make the oats stick together

-lemon juice ( optional it helps clear the skin ) about a few drops of this

If the mixture gets to runny add more oats, it should be like a runny paste

This helped for about 1 week but if you do this for about 3 days a week it helps your oily skin stay away for longer

 

This might just be noise, but I read somewhere once that if you have oily skin, what it really means is that your skin is actually very dry, causing your oil glands to produce in over produce trying to compensate. I know it feels ridiculous putting on lotion when your skin is oily, but i genuinely believe that it helped me get my skin under control.

I can't emphasize this point strongly enough: HORMONES (androgens and estrogens) are what cause the skin to produce oil, not "lotion".

I'm sorry, I have to bud into your spat with this guy, but from every logical and credible website/article I've read on acne it points to one aspect of increasing oil production. That is excessively washing the skin.

I also found it funny that you're using a car and house as an analogy to a living organism. That doesn't make any sense.

Respect Excelicious's opinion. Don't act like a child. He's simply saying what worked for him.

Proof: Read Step 1. http://www.acne.org/wash-face.html

Wow, I just realized I replied to someone from 3 years ago. Never mind.

I find drinking a lot of water on a daily basis keep my body hydrated and helps with the production of oil on my face. I make sure to use a diluted concoction of apple cider vinegar and filtered water then apply this to my face like you would any toner. And lastly, make sure you have a great moisturizer on hand to keep your skin from drying out. Jojoba oi, coconut oil ,cerave moisturizing lotion are all my go to's.

Peppermint oil and lots of water. Peppermint oil seems to keep my skin less oily for a good amount of time. Nothing else applied topically works. Make sure you drink lots of water and have a healthy diet.

I'm still experiencing some oiliness but since I've been on birth control (Ocella) I've noticed some dryness not just on my face but my hair too, so I know that the medication must be affecting my oil glands. That's not to say I have this wonderful matte look--no, not in the slightest. I still have a shine to my face and have to dab my face dry during the day. lol but it's an improvement, I suppose... I don't like having dry hair though

On 28/09/2012 at 3:54 AM, bryan said:

 

Really? How would you explain THAT?? Does your car get dirtier, the more you wash it? Does your house or apartment get dirtier, the more you wash it? I personally did an experiment with Sebutape Skin Indicators which I used as the way to measure sebum on my skin; as expected, I got the results that any reasonable person would expect: the more I washed my skin, the drier it got. I think you're just fooling yourself when you think that your skin supposedly got OILY when you washed it more often.

You can't use cars or houses as a comparison to skin?! If you strip the oils from your face too often, it encourages the skin to produce more sebumin order to make up for the oil it thinks it has lost. Aside from that, everyone's skin will react in different ways, whichis probably why you experienced drier skin-- so yes, their skin probably did get oiler the more they washed it.