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Is the Acne industry all just a scam to keep selling more products?
that doesn't make sense
what is the scam
the blue one is god-tier for dandruff tbqh
If its a scam, who is the perpetrator? Who creates the initial problem? The government putting fluoride in the water?
>>69676798
Go back to bed, Dick.
>>69676867
As an acnefag I can tell you the price of these snake oil 'treatments' is extortionate and half of them do nothing or make the problem worse.
They also disillusion you from finding the true problem that is causing it
How can clean and clear be real if our acne isn't real?
>>69677155
'Just don't touch your face'
>>69677155
i use a prescription retinol cream, a cortisone cream for immediate irritation, and a benzoyl peroxide lotion for breakouts, I use cetaphil (generic cvs kinds) face wash and my skin is fine. The retinol is the important thing it brings the oil to the surface and makes it easy to remove acne lesions with no scarring.
Anyone here watch Josefa Reina?
She does acne vids on youtube, like pimple popping
>>69677155
Try turmeric mixed with a bit of water,plaster on effected areas and wash off.
Might leave you a bit yellow unless you are brown.
Can add lemon to reduce the yellow.
>>69677155
>true problem that is causing it
You mean genetics? Just go to a dermatologist and he will prescribe some antibiotics or peroxide and boom acne gone.
>>69676798
Use salicylic acid from the red stridex. One of the few acne products that actually work.
>>69677383
Literally the GOAT solution for my acne here, it costs like 70p a bar too as opposed to £5 a bottle. Charcoal soap is top level too.
Also main factors: drinking the carbonated Jew, wrong bathing temp, and excessive carb ratio in diet
>>69677248
Don't trigger me m8
>>69677837
>Also main factors: drinking the carbonated Jew, wrong bathing temp, and excessive carb ratio in diet
Nice bro science retard
>Just wash your face xD xD
>>69677837
Ok ill give charcoal soap a go.
Cheers.
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>>69676897
>>69676867
>>69676798
>>69677179
The big brands that advertise on tv are usually shit. They don't work and I think that's what OP is referring to.
OP if you really want some help go get a basic cleanser that's gentle(something like cetaphil gentle). Get some BP(2.5%, only use 5% if 2.5 isn't available and avoid 10% at all costs, that shit is too strong), and olay sensitive skin moisturizer.
I went my entire teenage years not really trying any products because I was already convinced they wouldn't work. All I tried was some face wash in the shower, which didn't work.
I'm 20 now, and I started using this stuff a while ago and it was really effective pretty quickly.. I didn't think I would get clear skin like I have now.
Do you mean, does the acne industry only give a certain level of clearage so you keep having to buy their products?
>>69676798
Yeah, it's all a scam. There are no creams/cleansers that actually work for acne, but may help for very mild "breakouts" (one, maybe two pimples).
They only thing that can treat acne is isotretinoin.
>>69677289
I use 100 mg spironolactone and my acne has been gone about a few months ago.
Acne is acne, but the average spotty teen doesn't have acne and these face washes can help clear the shit outta your pores
>>69681603
I bet your nuts have gone too
>>69676798
>having acne
>>69681698
Well my erections are less frequent and smaller but its ok i guess. As long as i dont have acne anymore....
Wash your fucking face every night
>>69682039
And every morning
>>69681759
You're lucky to have such good genetics, I hope you don't think you're just cleaner than everyone who has acne.
>>69682039
>>69682141
People prone to acne can wash their face all the time and still get it.
>>69682039
Fucking triggered.
I used to shower three times a day when I started getting acne in grade 9. Meanwhile fat fucks could gulp down a cup of grease and rub their face in shit without getting a single pimple.
>>69676798
From my experience acne prodicts just dried out my skin making it produce more oil. Drinking more watet, less stress, jerking off less and sleeping upright helped me the most but yeah some people are just fucked genetically and need dermatalogical help.
>>69676798
Take a shower everyday and wash your bed sheets at least once a week.
>>69676798
Does losing your virginity affect your acne?im asking for a friend of mine
>>69682300
Shut up faggot, only filthy scum get acne. Shower more. Maybe you'll grow out of it one day kid, the fear of bathing that is, not the acne
>>69681759
Yhea,we know black people are less prone to acne
It is. Only Isotretinoin (Roaccutan) helps. Those items sold in markets are for clening your face, but acne is more than random zits.
>put chemicals all over your skin
>abrasion the fuck out of it
>expect your acne to go away
Save your money, chumps. Get a bit of sun, stop eating junk food, and keep your hands off your face.
>>69683191
For your friend of course. Tell him: no.
>>69683298
>he doesn't know shit
Now go away
>>69676798
No, Acne is caused by Bacteria which live on the skin, unhealthy lifestyles lead to inflammation which allows the bacteria to breed like mad in the anaerobic environment of your pores.
Source: I work in the professional beauty industry.
>>69683595
Sun can cause oxidative stress and free radical damage. These lead to inflammation which lets bacteria p. Acnes breed in your pores.
>>69676798
I had huge acne problems all the way to my mid 20ties, decided I had enough and went to a dermatologist. She prescribed me this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotretinoin and that managed to kill the problem for good. The therapy lasted 6 months and my lips were dry as shit but it was fucking worth it.
Might be worth considering if nothing else works for you.
>>69676798
>terrible acne all my life
>go to army
>don't shower for two weeks, live in a tent in the woods, camo-facepaint on
>acne is gone
>army ends
>acne is back
I must know what they put on those paints
Who else /never had acne/ here?
>>69677155
>As an acnefag
You must be 18 or older to browse this board
>>69684509
It's probably the shampoo then
First, buy a set of 7 towels you can wrap around your pillow each night, only use once per night, then at the end of the week wash the towels in an antibacterial wash, avoid bleach.
Second, I use this scrub on my face. Nothing more, as you don't want to dry your face out.
http://www.amazon.com/Exfoliating-Activated-Charcoal-Bacteria-Athletes/dp/B017L8ZUJE/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
>a genetic inferiority thread
Gas the acnids, race war now
No, actually acne products are much more successful in treating acne than prescription drugs in treating other conditions
>>69683943
>blah blah I'm a rare flag
>>69676798
balance your hormones and acne will be gone.
Acne starts from a disturbed hormonal system with a skin that is predisposed to acne under certain conditions.
>>69684509
>@GreaterGlasgPol
if you want to lose ya acne, get a tan on your skin, it cured mine...
>>69676798
No, it's simply that there are certain products that work better for certain people. I've been using the same product for years now, a little bit once a day, properly applying, and I no longer have acne. I use so little of it that it's not a frequent expense
Shampoo though? That's the real fucking scam. A little bit of coconut oil and warm water cleans your hair just as well without drying the everlasting fuck out of it so you have to buy a shitload of other products in an effort to rehydrate it
>>69676798
try smearing lemon juice on your dirty fucking face
>>69677543
>m-muh pill
enjoy fucking up your flora and screwing your body with poisons just because you are too lazy to find the actual cause which may be food intolerance, pituitary problems etc
>>69676798
yeh,
step 1 : cold showers, and stop using cheap shitty soap and products on ur fucking face
step 2 :regular suj and exercise
step 3 : non shit diet
step 4 : use a new towel every time you shower and change your pillow slip daily if you are an idiot who sleeps on the side of their face instead of the back of your head
if all else fails accutane, could be banned now tho
definitely works
you literally never need shitty shit like in your pic
34 years before realizing it was all seasonal allergies the whole time. Taking a few benadryl b4 bed made it all go away. Who knew?
>>69684988
Alright there Texas, no need to get upset. ;)
>>69684589
Most people
>>69676798
over the counter products are a scam, yes.
go to a dermatologist and get a retinoid or isotretinoin if you actually want to get rid of acne for good.
>bathe regularly
>change sheets and pillow covers regularly
>cut out dairy products
>cut out salt
>clean face every morning and every evening
The only thing that actually works against acne are isotretinoin pills. All those creams and "grandma tips" are bullshit.
>>69676798
yes
those products make your acne worse and your dandruff worse
>>69685803
Yeah, it's amazing how people think "wash your face man :)" is sound advice.
You faggots realize that there would be no fucking market for all these face scrubs and cleansers if you could cure ance by just washing your face, right? Fucking things don't even work and people still buy them in the slim hope that they can wash away their skin condition.
>>69685339
Accutane is the fucking worst thing that ever happened to me. It fucked with my hormones and my brain in ways I wouldn't wish on anyone.
They put me on it when I was 15. In three months I was so mentally unstable I was punching holes in walls. At six months I was experiencing schizophrenia-tier delusions like waking up and thinking family members were dead. At a year I was a full blown basket case. I robbed a wal-mart because I thought my friend Jacob had been kidnapped by the otters in the electronics section. I have never had a friend named Jacob and all I stole was a cart full of mouthwash.
I remember these times like a nightmare I never woke up from. Things that were totally irrational made perfect sense, and things that were totally rational made no sense or were just rage-inducing. It got a lot better when I stopped taking it but it still took three months for the worst effects to taper off.
It's been almost ten years since I took it and I still experience schizophrenic breaks. I know that I'm the exception and lots of people take it with no problems, but if I could change one thing about my life I would go back and tell myself to never fucking take that pill.
>>69686201
just b urself bro
>>69686349
>>69676798
Most of the products people buy are a scam.
With respect to acne just use fucking soap. Likely literally soap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap
I prefer black soap.
>>69681603
Enjoy your Cushing syndrome
>>69686349
That shit is ridiculous. Any medication that you need to take an educational course on before the doctor is allowed to prescribe it is probably a bad idea. I never understood why people took that garbage.
>>69681603
You are a fucking idiot, I'd take acne over anything that Spiro can do to you. Good luck.
>>69686349
>all I stole was a cart full of mouthwash
Sorry man, but that's funny as fuck
I have mild acne that spikes occasionally, and I know that those products are shit, but my acne stems from a petuitary disorder that makes it so I have to get hormone treatments, so washing my face doesn't always fix it, and it just constantly comes at me no matter what I fucking do. I have tried it all, the diet, constantly washing my face, intermittently washing it, some of those scrub things from OPs post, never the pharmaceutical route though, I have heard horror stories about that shit. I think I'm just fucked.
>>69676798
If you have acne maybe you are taking too much b12 somehow?
It's not likely but i never had bad skin and then for a few months starting taking b12 supplements and near the end i broke out in spots like you wouldn't believe, they just kept coming and for every 5 popped there would be 8 new ones.
It's something to do with bacteria which release inflammatory chemicals in response to b12.
I stopped taking it and my skin cleared in a few days.
>>69678592
Try pumice stone too.
>>69686349
you were right. the otters have jacob. help him.
>>69685166
If you are getting "acne" from food intolerance, that means you're allergic to that food -- and that isn't the same as acne.
All acne is genetic: all acne. Acne medication is to lessen the occurrence of it.
>>69687279
Despite all the mood swings it causes it's the only treatment that actually works.
>>69676798
Wash your fucking pillow case once a week. Jesus.
>>69687279
Yeah. The only reason I got taken off of it was because someone sued my dermatologist for over-prescribing it and his replacement took us all off of it. My family got a $450,000 settlement out of it. I don't know how a drug that resulted in as many lawsuits as it did lasted so long.
>>69687588
I know, I tell it all the time. I'm pretty sure the logic was that I could trade the mouthwash for Jacob. Or something. It was kind of like dream logic where you just do shit and it makes sense to you.
>>69688030
I still don't think it's worth it. I'd rather have acne.
>>69688656
>I could trade the mouthwash for Jacob
mein sides
Mine was really dietary related. Cut out ice cream and excess white flour, and that significantly went down. Also, don't drink fucking soda.
>>69688030
Yeah I have heard that it's extremely effective, but that it's negative effects can vary so much from person to person that it's a sort of gamble.
According to the hygene hypothesis, which has been increasingly accepted amongst the scientific community, the cause of acne is an overactive immune system.
Since western civilization is so clean compared to the rest of our evolutionary history, the immune system essentially gets scared that it doesn't have find any serious environmental pathogens to react to. It then primes itself to the benign acne bacteria so you get bad inflammatory reactions towards it- e.g. acne.
If this is true then the solution would be to go to some shithole while the immune system is developing so it can prime itself against an actual hostile bacteria. This was proven true in epidemiological studies in Africa where basically no one gets acne because there are more important bugs the immune system has to worry about.
The issue is now how do you stop the immune system after it has been primed towards these benign acne bacteria. Researchers aren't sure but a lot of immune manipulation is going on in the field of cancer so that may yield a solution one day.
At this point, once you have acne it's probably too late. Your only solution is to wait to adulthood where the skin microenvironment changes and less acne survive, or use Accutane which blocks production of the acne bacteria food source so they all die.
t. ID pharmacist
DIDNT READ THE THREAD BUT
BENZOYL PEROXIDE, 10%
DRIES THAT SHIT RIGHT OUT, PUT IT ON EVERY NIGHT
truly bro, ive had it since i was a teen and this is the only stuff thats worked well
I have never had acne in my life. Feels good.
>>69689603
Yeah but doesn't that dry the shit out of your skin? I mean nice to get rid of the acne, but doesn't it make your skin irritable?
I have really terrible acne on my chest and back and still have a little bit of acne on my face. I'm 26. What do?
I heard it's because of too much testosterone or because my hormones or imbalanced or some shit.
>>69689603
BENZOYL PEROXIDE 10% CREAM I MEAN
get it off ebay, worked wonders for me
>>69686349
fuark iktf when I was a kid at night really weird shit would come over me and I'd start thinking all kinds of stuff and it just wouldn't stop penetrating my mind, like one time I remember clearly though it was essential for me solve this word problem that didn't exist I started doing all kinds of math in my head for like a solid hour and then I woke up my dad and started shaking him and saying "THE GLASS OF WATER COSTS $0.50" he beat me and I snapped out of it and went to bed it still happens sometimes and I still have no idea wtf is going on.
>>69689761
Never take your shirt off.
Alternatively, go to a fucking dermatologist.
>>69689741
yeah you get flaking skin around the creases of your nose sometimes, but just use an exfoliating facewash in the morning and youre good
even if you dont, having slightly chapped skin is so much more tolerable than having bit pustules all over your face
>>69689761
try washing yourself faggot
>>69690173
I take showers everyday but don't use any soap on my skin.
I had severe cystic acne. Went to dermatologist, she prescribed me a few meds which didn't work well. Six months later she prescribed me Roaccutane or Accutane or whatever you call it. Went back four times to check liver values while being on it. Had extremely dry skin. Painfully dry, had to use vaseline on my face. But I didn't have any other major side effects really and no permanent ones. The inside of my nose became a bit dry, and I had a bit of blood in my snot I guess.
Six months later my skin was literally flawless. Now two years later, it's still like porcelain. I've had three spots since then, in a two year period.
It's a scary drug, but it's insane how effective it was.
>>69689761
I would go to a dermatologist if I were you. If you have it at 26, it's not really the kind of teenage acne that will go away by itself.
>>69690252
>but don't use any soap on my skin
>>69690757
Just use shampoo on my hair and the same shampoo on my armpits and pubic area.
>>69690907
Nice shitposting, 10/10
A small percentage of people have legitimate acne problems and need to see a dermatologist.
For everyone else it's just a phase and using products is useless. Only time and a healthy diet will fix the problem.
>>69691798
I actually do this
>>69691798
>>69693376
me too
>>69692797
>Healthy diet will fix the problem
Nice meme
>Only drink water, and plenty of it. A beer or a soda a couple of times a month
>No milk or cheese
>Wholegrain bread whenever possible
>Fruit and veg everyday
>Greasy fastfood maybe once a month if that
>High protein, high fiber diet
Doesn't seem to be doing much, and dermos have only been marginally helpful. I guess that leaves time right guy? How much time to I have to wait? 10 more years? 20 more years? Until I'm in the grave? I've been biding my time for quite some time now
Fuck off, you don't know shit
>[CURRENT YEAR]
>not making your own soap out of jews
