Biggest Mistakes in Acne Treatments

I had acne since 12 and as we all know that acne is a very stubborn skin disorder when it comes to treatment. I have tried few different treatments throughout these years and now, looking back, after all thiese years i think that my biggest mistake was that i could not control myself and was always picking them or scrubing vigorously. I just could not resist the urge. Someone needed to tie my hands and not let me do it!!As a result of that my acne turned from mild to severe. Now i know for sure hadn't i been scrubing my acne i would have had very deep post acne scars all over my face. Now it is so deep and some are even different collors that i can't even find right toner or make up to cover them.
So, my word to all of you is - make sure to wash your face often and as gently as you possibly can. Dont use harsh towels cause it might lead to more breakout and then scars. Always allow enough time to wash and apply your regiment, don't rush.
And if you are like me and like to scrub or worse squze it, please stop cause it will do you much worse.
Also, i think the medication or acne regiment is very important and one should be very carefull with choosing the right one. I made many mistakes choosing the once which were always in TV comertials or on the shelfs of stores. Now i know if i could turne the clock back or if i had the time machine i would never have used them because all of them are just good comertials to make money and nothing else. The acne regiment i finally found which took care of my acne almost withing a matter of couple a weeks was one, nobody ever heard of.I believe now that natural acne remedies are the best to use. They don't have harsh chemicals so the treatment is very gentle and most effective.
You see, the problem with for instance Proactive or other Benzoil Peroxide products that they can be effective but for very short period of time, after a while they just stop working.
Joy

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Hi every one,
it is a great topic so i want to share what i think i did wrong and since i change it everything became just fine.
I was on accutane and proactive in different times finally outgrew my acne. But i think that good highgene is omportant. I was not usin good cleansers at the beginning. I used to just was my face with warm or cold water thinking that it was enough. And the reason why i have not used the cleansers for a while was that once i picked up a bottle of Deep Clean facial cleanser by Neutrogena. I did not realy care and did not know back than that cleansers are different and the ingredients are also different. I just red on the lable that it cleans so deeply and thoroughly that it improves the look of skin...etc..etc...etc.
Well, to make the story shorter, i started using this cleanser and i tell u, the very nexy day i had so many new and ugly break out that one can only immagine.
Only then i did read the lable and checked the ingredients list. The ingredients list had so many different and hard to pronounse worrds that i realized that this "Deep Clean" is not for me. So it went right into trash. The point i am trying to stress here that cleansing is the must in any acne regiment but there are so many cleansers available on the market that choosing the right one that suits your skin type can be very difficult. I also never went to dermatologist and i think it is one of my biggest mistakes however, i do know that a lot of people try to avoid visits to derms because they are costly and also most treatments the derm will prescribe are in form of chemical applications which may and in most cases may not be halthy for your skin and not helpfull in fighting acne.

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You know what i recently discovered guys? We neet to wash out hair as often as possible. Now with 70's style coming back i have long hair on my forehead and long on the back. So if it is dirty and not washed regularly then it will irritate your acne creating more infections and breackouts. As funny as its sounds but when you think about it, it does make sence.
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I agree with one of the Posts here that touching face is very bad but sometimes we do it without even thinking about the consequenses.Our hands probably the first and the biggest carrier of bacteria.
So make sure you wash them as often as possibly can.
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First i want to say that i am on accutane right now and i hate it so much, those who were on accutane will understand what i mean and those who consider accutane as your next acne regiment - Don't.
Now about the topic.
I had worsen my acne because once in a while i will pop a pimple or two. There were days when i was clear from acne and from nowhere one or two nasty pimples will shoup up again..so i would just pop it. I have noticed that everytime i did that i would break out like crazy few days after. I red somwhere that if you pop a pimple, immideately it becomes an open wound so you invite more bacteria to spread all over the other skin area It is also bad because the you pop will leave deeper and more noticable scars in the future.
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I was bad in choosing right cosmetics. I had no idea that the cosmetics should be non-comedogenic type in order to avoid skin irritation. I remember i used to buy stuff from a Dollar store, now i think, can u immagine what that people put in their cosmetics to sell that cheap!!?? I did not know that and used to use it all the time having more and more brake outs after each use of those toners... I think some cosmetics do contain harsh materials - chemicals if you will that can only lead to drying and extra irritation. Some are very oily that will most likely lead to more acne. I was 12 at that time so i did not know much about the cosmetics but as all girls of my age i already was trying to wear it.

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I think that my Biggest mistake and now i think it is a problem too that i am very impatiant person. I just cant wait for too long. But with acne time is not as important so one must be very patient. The acne healing does takes a lot of time. Acne can heal and it can take years so if we patiant enough and if we follow all the rules and tips then we can be very sucsessful in our acne treatment. Rushing and not following the rules will make acne to heal much longer.
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