I'm almost exactly 4 weeks into the Regimen. I know everyone says your skin is really dry at this point, but I think I'm worse than average. I've done everything to moisturize my face - after I wash my face with the cleanser and let it dry, I smear a layer of jojoba oil straight on my face before applying the BP (I know it probably inhibits absorption, but oh well) both morning and night. I add generous amounts of jojoba oil to the moisturizer and apply at least two pumps in the morning and three pumps at night. I just started using AHA once at night every other night this week (combining with more moisturizer and jojoba oil), but I assume that takes time to take effect. And I apply about 1 pump of moisturizer on my face every 1/2 hour to hour while I'm at work. It literally takes just over 30 minutes for my skin to get tight and dry just sitting at my desk.

I think it's the weather here - it's not so bad for me at home, I can go for almost two hours before I have to moisturize - but there's something about the air quality at work that just just crazy drying. I always moisturize immediately before I go outside because it takes literally FIVE MINUTES before my skin is tight and dry again when I'm outside. My skin is flaking like crazy all the time, obviously. I massage off the flakes every night and morning with jojoba oil (that's before I cleanse. I put on another layer of jojoba oil after I cleanse). My skin only feels normal when I'm in the bath and the rest of the time, no matter how much moisturizer and jojoba oil I use, I have at least a tight feeling if not a near-painful tight feeling at the worst times. I use Dan's products.

My skin has only been getting dryer and dryer for the last week, and I legit think I've been getting wrinkles from the dryness (I'm 24). And let me say that I have naturally extremely oily skin to begin with - I'm the type who would have to blot oil off with a sheet every two hours. I stopped wearing makeup since I started the Regimen, by the way.

(I'm also taking some supplements, including zinc and B-5, which may well be a contributing factor, but I'm not sure if I should stop taking them or not).

I'm using the full 2 pumps of BP right now but I have to wonder if it's too much. There's dryness, and then there's dryness. But I'm worried that if I cut back then I wont get clear at all. My acne hasn't really decreased in the last month - the inflammation has definitely gone down a lot, but the number of pimples is about the same (moderate-severe cystic acne, still have cysts though they have shrunk and are not as inflamed, and I continue to break out every day.)

Is there anything else I can do about dryness, or should I cut back the BP to 1 1/2 pumps twice a day, or even just 1 twice a day?