Beauty Tips For Body Care
Hello, first time poster, so apologies in advance for anything I get wrong and also for the length.Basic crux of what I'm asking: I've tried a lot of things and I feel like I'm getting nowhere. I'd like some advice from people who might have recommendations for products for pretty darn sensitive skin with bad brown spots and occasional new spots. I've seen a lot of the routine advice but been really intimidated by the chemicals etc. - I don't know how well my skin would respond and I've previously had bad experience, so any and all product recommendations/advice on how to approach my skin routine would be so so so SO gratefully received.Basically, until I was 18 or so my skin was pretty fine. After then it went really bad for a period of about 18 months. I'm now 23 and now it's somewhere in between these two states. By this I mean:I regularly get little lumps under my skin that never amount to anything and go away after a couple of weeks. Depending on where they are, they can be visible (e.g. I've currently got two, one on either side of my nose, and you can't see them because they're just against the crease) and they're often painful even if only for a day or two. I understand these to be epidermoid cysts.I get random new spots, usually one or two a month. They almost always scar. I've got no idea how to stop that happening - I don't feel like I'm picking at it, but maybe I am without realising. I've just ordered hydrocolloid pads. They should be arriving in the next 90 minutes and I'm stupidly excited to try them and hopefully they'll help.I've still got fairly obvious scarring from back in the day when my skin was very bad. I tend to use a bit of foundation as concealer before going out and that tends to deal with it so, whilst you can tell there's scarring there, it really doesn't look obvious.With regards to things I've tried: the pill is not an option, and I've done antibiotics for 8 months but the side effects were pretty horrible (vomiting etc.) I came off the antibiotics about 3 weeks ago and I've gone from none of those small lumps under my skin to four in the last 3 weeks. As I said, I currently have two.I'm also constrained by the fact that, whilst my face seems to respond okay to some of the harsher things I've tried to address my skin, it gets really red, angry, and painful as a consequence of most other things. Based on what I've tried, I find using ultra-calming items tends to help, and only using harsher things if they're actually for my acne/brown spots (no perfume or anything). My face seems to respond well to Acnecide - but can't cope with (e.g.) Dove bodywash.My routine right now looks like this:Wash with a tea-tree foaming cleanser.Apply acnecide to T-zoneAveeno Ultra-Calming with SPFClinique foundation for spot-prone skinIn the evening I basically use the same things (wash make up off with tea tree wash, then acnecide) before bed.Once a week I try to use the Dermologica clay mask. That really helps my skin - it feels super smooth and calm when I wash it off.I'm trying to find things that will specifically help my brown discolouration/spots whilst also not murdering my skin. That being said, as I said above, my skin doesn't seem to respond badly to strong treatments (if it does, I just apply less often anyway until it's used to it) but does respond super badly to a lot of other things (i.e. body washes etc.)Thanks in advance for any help. I'm UK based (if the 'u' in discolouration and the UK links didn't give that away!) and I'm a student, so whilst I'm not adverse to paying Dermalogica-prices for things that work, I'm only really willing to do that if I can get them in small/trial sizes first.
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