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Acne Remedy – Friction

dave — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:21:08 +0000

Well based on my own advice I try very hard never to touch my face, but when it itches like crazy what can you do?

Enter the shirt sleeve/collar; I figured that so long as it wasn’t skin on skin, it would be fine, but woke up today with a little face monster after rubbing my chin feverishly across my shirt collar to stop the itching. So I guess today’s lesson: Let it itch. There are worse things.

I suppose lightly holding a paper towel filled with cold water on it might help. I’ll try that next time.

Acne – Sleeping Strategy

dave — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:59:36 +0000

That’s right.. you also have to fight acne when you’re unconscious, but this is relatively simple.

Sleep on your back! My guess is that because your face isn’t sitting in a pile of hair/skin/oil and who knows what else living on your pillow that your pores are less likely to punish you for their night of putrid cloth torture.

Acne – Shower Remedy

dave — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:59:11 +0000

I think the shower/bathroom is where the most immediately visible damage is generally done, so pay attention:

1. Use a hypo-allergenic face scrub (I use biore pore perfect deep cleanser); only use a little bit, do not scrub hard, do not use a washcloth.

2. Use your hands to make sure all face-soap is off your face (you can feel the difference of soapy skin vs. non-soapy skin)

3. Important! When you exit the shower, make absolutely certain that your towel (new one every day) isn’t mashed into your face. Instead, and after snapping it a few times to shake out any loose towel-dust, fan your face with your towel (do not let the towel touch your face). The air flow seems to cool off your face and thus close your pores directly after you’ve cleaned them. If you can’t stand to let your face air dry, LIGHTLY touch your face with the towel, but only Briefly.

4. I don’t care if you drive a Harley, eat live snakes or whatever, having bad skin isn’t manly..it sucks.. USE HYPO-ALLERGENIC FACE LOTION. I have super-sensitive skin, so there are only a small handful of lotions I can use, but Neutrogena Sensitive Skin (I’ll post a picture of my anti-acne regime later) works for me.

Acne – Breakfast/Food Remedy

dave — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:58:43 +0000

Look I’m not a nutritionist, but I can at least understand that the human body is somewhat of a closed system, meaning whatever you put in, you get out. So Garbage in.. Garbage out. Most of the garbage I ate seemed to stay on or ooze out of my pores; make your own judgment call on your diet.. You are capable of creating your own definition of nutritional garbage, but over the past year or so I started doing a few things differently when filling my pie hole:

1. I cut out most manufactured sugar (read: food that comes in a box and tastes Great)
2. I cut out most grease/fast food (read: chips, burger king)
3. I try like hell every day to get 30 grams of fiber (more on this later, but it’s a lot harder than you think)
4. I try like hell to cut out High Fructose Corn Syrup (read: Coke)
5. And this may be as, or more, important than the grease.. SALT. If you actually take a minute to read the labels on the food you eat, I think you’ll find as I did that I was eating something approaching 1000% of the daily recommended salt dosage. I cut this back to just over 100% and as a nice side benefit, my blood pressure went WAY down into that Live-until-90 category (117/69 and I’m approaching 30, heavy smoker). Big salt offenders include soups, boxed pasta, anything processed, LUNCHABLES!, and most things you find in cans/freezer boxes.

Acne – Sunshine Remedy

dave — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:58:00 +0000

Try to get at least 20 min. of good sunlight on your face every day. The benefits are 3-fold:

1. Blue sky/warmth supposedly makes people happy, which reduces stress, which seems to help acne

2. Suntans hide skin irritation and my hope/guess is that UV rays kill bacteria (the kind that lives in the bumps on your face)

3. Vitamin D is probably good for your skin, but I only added it because I learned recently that you need it to process calcium, which may not be good for fighting acne, but seems to be something you need.

Acne – At Work

dave — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:57:11 +0000

Anything you can do to avoid stress at work (tell jokes, sleep at your desk, whatever) is useful. If you’re psychotic like me, when you get stressed out, you probably start scratching or touching your face; and so we’re clear: DO NOT TOUCH YOUR FACE EVER. Your fingers are cesspools of bacteria and God knows what, but whatever it is, it’s not good for your skin.

Acne – Intervention and Vitamins

dave — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:56:40 +0000

Manual Intervention
Every dermatologist, doctor, friend, relative, you name it, will tell you Not to pop a whitehead. I disagree entirely; though the method has to be correct: you must get the root of it, your hands must be clean, the ’sack’ has to come out if it’s going to be effective, and it can’t be a scratch, has to be pressure to under the base of the ’sack’ that causes the ‘pop’, otherwise you’ll look worse than when you started.

Vitamins
Taking this advice might make you less healthy assuming you don’t already have a Jack LaLanne style diet, but every time I take a multivitamin, I can count on 2-3 new pimples, so I avoid them at all costs.

Acne – A word on Fiber (as mentioned earlier)

dave — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:54:31 +0000

Notwithstanding the section on Manual Intervention, this will be the grossest post I make. Fiber is important in this battle; doctors will tell you ‘we still don’t know what causes acne’, well I think I do and I think it’s a combination of the things mentioned previously along with a sick colon. The idea is your body will push out toxins wherever it can and since your face skin is far more sensitive than, say, the bottoms of your feet, you see more of an effect.

Get 30 grams of fiber each day, make sure you’re pushing out healthy feces (sorry for the gross) at least once, but twice is better, each day. When I say healthy, I mean light brown, cylindrical, the size you’d want your GI tract to be, and sinking (fats float).

In addition, soluble fiber acts to absorb a lot of the garbage your body doesn’t need/shouldn’t have in it to begin with.

Acne Remedy Site

dave — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:32:54 +0000

This site was basically made to share the methods I’ve used over the past 15 years to combat the vicious acne I have (well .. had). After trying several acne medications, creams, cleansers, doctors, drug store remedies, and anything else I could put on my face or in my body that I thought had a chance of destroying my acne, I started learning little ‘tricks’ for getting rid of these socially devastating red/white/black spots. Most of these are things you probably wouldn’t equate to acne or logic, but I can tell you my face used to look like someone planted onion seeds on it and now I get an occasional compliment on my skin.