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Zinc oxide powder mixed into a paste with any oil you want. A dab of tretinoin on just that spot daily for a few months in combination with zinc treatment should do yah wonders.

I have to say my cystic acne is greatly at bay due to tretinoin but these are all wonderful suggestions!   Zinc oxide is scientifically proven to topically help all forms of acne, particularly d...

I ran my course in high school with erythromycin and loved it, then became resistant. Same with a clindamycin gel (awesome stuff); just fizzled out. Doxy and minocycline are for the birds in my opinio...

I'll second this if someone only has mild acne. It really does help take inflammation down; very soothing. You can snag it in jumbo sizes at costco sometimes for really decent prices and it's also gre...

I just posted this in another thread but here is some helpful info on hormonal activity strictly in the skin:     "... acne-prone skin has greater activity of type-1 5-alpha-reductase acti...

She needs to see a dermatologist and I would pick up a bottle of hibiclens at the drug store and have her use it, washing all of the active areas with it in the shower once a day minimum and follow th...

If you haven't tried tretinoin cream, I highly recommend it. Within the first few weeks you will flare (and peel a bit and look a little pink due to excess blood flow to the area) but by 6 months you ...

I use collagen hydrolysate by Great Lakes and take a rounded teaspoon mixed with cold water twice a day and haven't had ANY gut problems or any increase in acne. In fact, the opposite. If you're takin...

Oh Lord, off and on for years. I didn't understand how it worked when I first used it in 2009, so I would get clear and jump off. Then break out again, reach for other stupid products etc. My biggest ...

I know; I have to be careful so it doesn't take over my life. I'm now experimenting with tackling my scars so it's a whole new journey to obsess over!   Yeah my skin's texture is way better nak...

Yes, my pores were larger (congested) for the first month or so.

I do the same with a warm wet cloth and then tidy up with my dry towel to catch all of the dead skin that rolled off. If I don't then my skin looks kind of snakey under makeup. My guess is you'll be s...

I hope you stayed with tretinoin, it usually knocks hyper pigmentation out within a few weeks. Dermis love to give peels because it's a money maker for them, but tretinoin is the best route for your s...

3 weeks was like clockwork for me, 4 at once on my chin area and 1 on my neck last time I quit and got back on. But it all died down and no more came. They say 6 months is your peak acne benefit time,...

Tretinoin will usually cause a flare up. If I have been off for a few months, when I get back on, usually around 3-4 weeks in I flare. I stopped all internal treatments other than a healthy diet, and ...

This sounds like irritation. Have you tried limiting any other products on your face? The topical antibiotic comes in the gel form and the solution which does have alcohol in it and bothered my face p...

That was the ugly stage of sloughing off old tissue and congestion in pores coming to the surface. If you stop, it's all sitting in the pores near the surface, making pores appear larger and half-atte...

So, from my understanding, just considering the collagen, the first few layers of the dermis become compacted at first, and nearing the 12 month mark on tretinoin, a large jump in thickening of the de...

I have used tretinoin off and on and just wanted to share that I have had flare ups come up a few weeks in before and last almost a month depending on how congested my pores were to begin with (dull/r...

I was on spiro and it significantly brought my cystic breakouts down (chin, jaw, neck) and I did breakout after I quit but I hated taking something systemic and got sick of peeing all of the time so I...

I will say that my history with birth control in the past left me hooked on it for clear skin and even then after awhile I would get a cyst. I have been off of HBC for years now and battling cysts and...