Still spotty at 20 years old?

Homemade scrubs and masks help a lot. First and foremost before using any scrub is to drink lots of water every day, 7 or 8 glasses. (Spring water is best) Water keeps the body and skin hydrated, reducing the clogging up of pores. You can look at it as diluting the oil in your skin.

1) Mix 2 tablespoons of plain yogurt with 1 teaspoon of honey. Leave the mask on for 20 minutes then wash off with luke warm water. Do this up to 4 times a week.

2) Then scrub the area with baking soda. Just plain old baking soda is perfect. It's the least expensive and works great. Just wet fingertips, dip them into a container of baking soda, then (very) gently scrub face. Can be used nightly, use twice a week if nightly is too much for you.

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Salt scrub:

1 cup Baking Soda (normalize pH levels in the skin)

3 tablespoons sea salt (good exfoliant)

1 tablespoon Baking Powder (softens skin)

Mix everything together in container.

When ready to use, put about 1 teaspoon in wet hand and rub into paste, just until it is moistened. You do not want to dissolve the salt. Massage very gently in circles all over wet face. Let sit 1 minute, rinse off. Use once or twice a week.

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Also, tea tree oil. It's one of the best acne treatments there is. Not an overnight cure, but if you use it as a routine, it's a natural antiseptic, germicide, antibacterial, and fungicide. It's available at Trader Joes, health food stores and many other places.

Mix tea tree oil (usually about 10-20 drops, depending on size, is what I use. Never more than 5% total of what it's mixed with. For a single application, I use 2-3 drops) in your masks, scrubs, facial cleansers and anything else you use on your face. To keep skin from drying out and peeling, add tea tree oil to extra virgin olive oil or coconut oil as a moisturizer.

Use 100% coconut oil or extra virgin olive oil. Take the coconut oil, add tea tree oil, and apply before bed with a cotton pad/ball. The coconut oil is absorbed quickly, taking the TTO with it. This is a great moisturizer and not oily or greasy at all. I mix it up small batches.

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Lush's Tea Tree Water is a great toner and lasts me for six months or more. I use it to clean my face in the AM. I close my eyes and spray once. Take a cotton pad and wipe. Done. Then I cleanse my face at night, use a mask if I want, then the coconut oil mixture.

http://www.lushusa.com/shop/products/face/toners-t...

** Make sure the oils are 100% pure and not blended. Some coconut oil is mixed with mineral oil and/or petroleum jelly. The tea tree oils come in blends too. **

~Coconut oil is also a wonderful treatment for your hair. Apply to hair, put on a shower cap or wrap in cling wrap, leave on 20 minutes to an hour or more. Wash as usual.~

***Below is the best mask I've ever tried. Get it - or a sample - if it's at all possible.***

Lush makes a blueberry mask, called *Catastrophe Cosmetic.* This mask worked for my friend overnight. She had a huge - quarter size - pimple, and it was not noticeable the next day after she used this mask. It has to be purchased in the store. They are freshly made and last 2 weeks. But, if you have a store near you, ask for a sample. Use every other night. (or every night if you want, it's gentle).

They do sell it through the mail in the UK, but only in stores here in North America.

https://www.lush.co.uk/index.php?page=shop.product...

Lush is available in some Macys stores. Here is the shop locator.

http://www.lushusa.com/shop/find/index.html

**Or make your own mask with blueberries, calamine powder, and tea tree oil. Take fresh blueberries, put in a bowl and mash up. add calamine powder to make a paste, add a few drops of tea tree oil and mix. Leave on up to 15 minutes (sometimes I leave it longer).**

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a) try going on the pill, it really really helps two of my friends had bad acne and went on it, yeah it makes you put on a little weight but within 2 months their skin was almost clear

b) stop overloading it with moisturiser and make up, youre only making it worse by clogging your pores and not letting the blemishes 'breathe', so they wont heal. and your skin will be confused, produce more oil, or stop producing it? just cleanse and tone, thats it. i personally swear by.. water! and a tiny bit of olay beauty fluid every morning.but nothing else.

c) do you drink a lot of alcohol? my boyfriend has acne but if he doesnt drink for a few weeks it almost disappears. and when he does drink it gets really angry and red.

d) try drinking a lot, a lot and a lot of water. i have never tried this by i hear it works wonders.

e) if you have the money, maybe try laser treatment?

f) do NOT pick. by picking, you get some of the pus on your fingers. so if you touch another part of your face, the infection will spread. yes, maybe try some antibiotics.

personally i think going natural is the way to go. pills, chemicals and treatments will do more harm than good in the long term.

hope this helps!

I'm the same. I'm 23.

I've tried a number of things. There's a cream you can get off the doctor called duac. I found that worked well for me, only I can't be bothered using it and my spots came back. It's my own fault lol. It takes about a month to work, but I found once it began to work it's very good. If you get spotty around your period you can still flare up then, but I think hormones just overpower the cream lol.

Other things you can do is change your pillow case once a week and try not to touch your face too much or pick your spots. If you must squeeze do it with clean hands.

It may also be a food allergy. I have found that dairy products can make my face flare up if I have them too often (more than a couple of times a week.)

Good luck. :)

Cleanse, tone and moisturize twice a day every day use an oil-free moisturizer and exfoliate once a week followed by a deep pore mask then tone and moisturize. Apply an acne spot medication on the pimples. Do not use antibiotics to treat acne, that will cause your body to become immuned to antibiotics ad when you really need them they will ot work

This is my favourite honey facial mask recipe!! It works incredibly well :D

http://tinyurl.com/lxrbluc

Raw honey works amazing because not only is it natural, but it has anti-bacterial properties that works just as great and probably better than any lab-made cream in the market. I Highly recommend honey facial masks.

Still spotty at 20 years old?

Take a daily multi-vitamin with Zinc in it. I have the same very healthy routine as you (other than the pill) and I found that after 4 weeks on the multi-vitamin with zinc my acne majorly cleared up.

I was the same.

What saved me was chemical peels. Expensive and painful but cleared my acne.

Give them a go, can't recomment them enough.

Also use mineral foundation from bare escentuals: the best for spots.

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