Hi so let me introduce myself.my name is Jeneen I'm 13 and I have mild acne well it looks like mild acne but if you take off all the scars there's probably only about 5 pimples in different areas.my scarring takes a very long time to go away.so my history of acne started in the summer after finishing sixth grade right now I am entering eighth grade in about five days and I started getting acne after I went on vacation to miami.one of the days In miami we went swimming all day in the hotel and I forgot to wear my sunscreen repetitively I only wore it once and it was before I went swimming I didn't really think it would make in impact on my skin since I had clear skin at that time but after I was done swimming (all day) I noticed a few days after that I had small holes only visible when you look closely in the mirror but or in other words my pores appeared a bit bigger but it didnt really bother me but once I got to 7th grade about the middle of my year I started getting bad acne on my forehead and a little on my nose and whiteheads on my chin and on top of that I had oily skin which I didnt have in 6th grade and I also had these small bumps and blackheads that still to this day won't go away I squeezed a bunch over the years but some of the bumps have blackheads in it too I don't even know what they are they are just small tiny bumps they aren't whiteheads or blackheads and they aren't pimples either I also have a bunch of them on my cheeks which I got at the end of 7th grade but they aren't as noticeable as the ones on my forehead and I have blackhead bumps on my cheeks and chin too the bumps and blackheads are on the lower parts of my cheeks I don't have any pimples anymore on my forehead just bumps and a few scars not too much thanks to panoxyl which was prescribed by my doctor and it is benzoyl peroxide 10% to be honest it didnt really dry my face I don't even know why it now since my acne is gone from my forehead it has began to spread tiny pimples a little bigger than the size of a bead but smaller than a pea and now I have about 5 scars on both sides of my cheeks honestly at the end of 7th grade (June 6) I had NOTHING on my cheeks on my nose my chin (only whiteheads on my chin but they weren't noticeable cuz I have a dimple on my chin and the whiteheads are located there)I only heads bumps,blackheads,and pimples on my forehead but now I don't even know why it started to come on my cheeks.so that was a very long history of my acne and now I wanted to talk about the title that I put down I was wondering a couple days ago if I took my panoxyl (benzoyl peroxide 10%) and I took my cetaphil cleanser and moisturizer (which I don't use anymore cuz I thought it would help my acne) and I started to cleanse my face with the cetaphil like in the regimen then I put on my panoxyl just like the treatment in the regimen but that one is 2.5% benzoyl peroxide I know Dan says 10% and 5 are harsh but I've been using this product for a month and it hasn't dried my skin and after that I take the cetaphil and apply it on (its a cleanser and moisturizer) and apply it like the moisturizer in the regimen and I want to see if this will help my acne on my cheeks but I don't know if I should do it because the panoxyl is 10% and not 2.5% like the treatment in the regimen I really want to get it but my mom won't let me because she thinks it won't work like all the other things I tried except for panoxyl but ya she doesn't want to "spend money on something that doesn't work" but I really think that it could work because alot of people that it worked for had wayyy worse acne than me like cystic acne which I don't have but I think it could work anyways I wanted to do this to see you guys opinions and views on this do you think this "dupe" could work instead of buying the regimen? Should I not do it? Any suggestions? I'm really desperate for clear skin because my cousins wedding is next year and I don't want to slap on a bunch of makeup to cover up I want to have clear skin when the wedding is coming up so I'm started to try things out so I have one year to figure this out my skin is a big part of my life as stupid as that seems but when your growing up people get more judgemental.i don't really care of what people think of my skin but I just feel more confident if I had clear skin and I probably wouldn't be hesitant to wear makeup I don't wear any face makeup on my skin only eye makeup I don't wear all that crap on my skin cuz I don't want my skin to be worse than ever.thank you guys I hope I get helpful replies back!