Acne Tips

Hi … first, search the list for my exfoliating facewash for twice daily
washing. If you can’t find it, let me know.

I’m no doctor, and you’ll need to be aware that this answer should go hand in
hand with wearing non-comedogenic oil-free moisturizer with sunscreen. For
now, make a solution that can soften / clean out these pores (it helps me
immeasurably) …

1 1/4 tsp lemon juice
1 1/4 tsp apple cider vinegar
Enough (drinkable) aloe juice to make the whole solution = 4 oz.

Keep in fridge, use each night shaking well prior to using. For morning
toning, use something mild like Thayer’s witch hazel with rosewater and aloe,
which should help counter any overly drying effect the evening one may have.
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Here’s the exfoliating wash I told you about …

~ Katie

COPY AND PASTE…. INTO BROWSER

…. go there… and read the site… neotrogena 2.5% WORKS.

On Saturday, June 29, 2002, at 07:59 AM, czermakg wrote:

Just wondering what people think of Proactiv. Anyone have any
success with it?

Okay, I am 23 years old (male) and have had mild acne since I was 13.

I have always just used facial washes (Noxema, etc) and also topical
skin care creams (like Clearasil).

Recently, I have also spot applied tea tree oil to any blemishes to
help clear them up. It seems to have gotten the small bumps under
control.

Two weeks ago, I have a deep, hard nodule develop under my right
eye. It got really red and swollen, but died down a week later.
However, it has left a dark patch that is very slow to vanish.

Then, over the past week, I have had 10 further hard, large lumps
appear. They too have now vanished… but I am left with these dark
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Proactiv did not work for me either. I tried it for 2 months and got
zero results. Plus, you don’t seem to get enough of the glycolic
acid toner to effectively use it for the entire run.

I am weary now of products with infomercials
PS - Is anyone else bugged like me with the boy in those commercials
who says the old ladies in supermarkets come up to him and say "Oh
you have such beautiful skin"? Who in the real world does that?!

Why me??? The Tea Tree Oil I have been using has cleared up all of
my small acne… but recently I have been flaring with deep acne…
11 total bumps in the past 2 weeks.

Tea tre oil is good for smaller acne… not the big stuff (at least,
not for me.)

Nothing seems to work for me.

And dermatologists are currently out of the picture (I’m a COOP
student without medical insurance).

Sounds like the retin-A gel that they gave me totally burned my face and make
it peel and crack. I have to go see her again so we will see what she gives
me this time around.

Ok I got confused here. I just realized that Emu is a BIRD! DUH! I wrote
earlier that it came from a bird not realizing it is a bird……………its
been a long day……..LOL

I got some emu oil. (I found a health food store right by my job
that supplies it in the "physically refined" form.) I’m a bit
disturbed by this stuff. The texture makes me wonder exactly where
from the emu do the extract it. Does anyone know? I’ve been looking
at different websites in my attempts to find out, but none of them
mentions exactly where it comes from and how they get it. I’m just
hoping that I don’t find out the stuff I’ve been putting on my face
and neck comes from the nether regions of the bird. Hey…if it
works, I won’t stop using it, but I’m gonna darn well be disgusted!
:[ I have all the stuff to make Katie’s toner, but I’ve yet to do
that. I’ve been too lazy to squeeze the lemons. (Isn’t that
pathetic of me??) I was going to get some of that concentrate, but I
figured, since everything else I got is natural, I might as well suck
it up and get some fresh lemons. I even bought a little amber bottle
to put the mixture in. I wanted to get the atomizer bottle, but I
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