So after many many years of trying everything from acids to sugar to eating healthy I decided to go the most extreme method, the only thing I haven't tried yet and that is not washing my face with nothing at all. For the past 47 days water has not touched my face, I don't even shower, I just use a rag to wash the important parts. Here is what I have experienced so far, the good and the bad. The skin mask is thick, most thick is on my forehead. My play was to not exfoliate until the 3 month mark but my wife basically made me at least exfoliate my forehead last sunday with my fingers because my forehead really looked like I had dirt on it. But after I did that my skin was so bright and looked so go, couldn't even see any forehead wrinkles, I'm 37 BTW. I have a few small pimples on my forehead but thats about it. I plan on doing this for several months to see if the skin mask resolve on its own. I am aware and fully prepared to do this for 6 months because while the dry flaky skin doesn't look pleasant and the skin mask isn't pleasant either my skin hasn't looked this bright in decades. If anyone wants I will keep this updated.