The worst part of my acne - meaning the wierd bumps and scarring that occurred - was taken care of by the peels. My scars are almost gone now. This doesnt prevent acne from happening at all though.
Basically, it gives you a fresh clean slate to start all over again.
If you're prone to breakouts...look at the stuff you're using on your face and what you're putting into your body.
Cleanser: please keep it gentle, soap free, oil free, fragrance free! Neutrogena makes such a good one...extra-extra gentle cleanser. Having acne doesnt mean you need something stronger!
Moisturizer: I use a gel by Glytol that is (again) fragrance free, oil free, blah blah free, etc.
Sunscreen: SPF 40 by Clinique. Gina is right ladies...sunscreen is the best thing you can do for your skin.
If you have acne...forget fast food, soda/pop, fried foods and embrace fruit, vegetables, home cooked food and tons of water.
i took accutane for my acne and mashallah its completely gone. I dont have spots on my face but i do have slight pitting along my cheeks from the acne.
So the plan is to get on accutane, as per doc’s suggestion, from tomorrow INSHALLAH and a month from tomorrow, I’ll see doc again for my monthly blood check up and other tests and he’ll send me to a derma to take care of the scarring. Yeah, in Canada, you gotta go to specialists through your family doc or else you’ll be paying huge bucks.
I do cleanse and moisturize and it’s the sunscreen I gotta pay attention to.
One more thing I need to ask...I'll be getting on accutane from tomorrow INSHALLAH which comes with its usual side-effects like dryness on lips, nose etc. Is there anything that I can do to keep it minimum? Also, how long this dryness usually lasts?
One more thing I need to ask...I'll be getting on accutane from tomorrow INSHALLAH which comes with its usual side-effects like dryness on lips, nose etc. Is there anything that I can do to keep it minimum? Also, how long this dryness usually lasts?
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for ur face ask them for this steroid moisturizer... it will help keep ur face from drying out big time...
but dont use it unless u really have to.
and please please DONT wax... unless u want a wax burn
Please refrain from any form of steroids, please forget that not all creams/gels are suitable for people getting treatments done or peels done. If u're using Retin A, u need to stop using it 2 days prior to a microderm/peel session and 2 days after... Don't bleach/thread 4 days before and after the treatments.
Teelo, microderm is superficial exfoliation with very fine crystal oxide and milder than peels.. peels usually penetrate to the "second-skin" and u can see results in a shorter time span... derms suggest microderm and peels alternately so that the scaling/peeling is exfoliated during the microderm.
to everyone for being very helpful!