[PSA] I ran out of Spearmint Tea so you don't have to... Long story short - Surprised to discover it was actually working for my acne!

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My acne started in when I was 11 - the doctors put me on Minocyline for it and it cleared up a bit along with the old Acne.org BP routine, although my skin was always red and dry! Come age 15 I started wearing makeup and stopped doing my Acne.org routine so the minocycline was no longer doing it's magic, so the doctors put me on Yasmin birth control to treat my acne, aside from that my only routine was washing my face and wearing moisturiser in the AM to make my foundation go on better... yikes!. My skin was clear until age 20 when I decided to quit all medications I was on including birth control and minocycline for my own person reasons. I had a moderate acne flare up that went away within a few weeks and my skin was fine and I just had the odd breakout here and there.​Two years later my acne started coming back which brings me to about halfway through last year. Keep in mind my only routine was still washing my face and putting on moisturiser under makeup. Then my acne got real bad so I started trying different things but I still knew nothing about skincare. Any old 'acne wash' and tea tree oil with no moisturiser..... D: ! I slowly got wiser and started moisturing, eye cream, and serum but was using fragranced products and so on. Eventually went on birth control but it wasn't one that did anything for acne and all birth control seems to make me an emotional wreck. Stopped that birth control as it was messing with my moods. Started Tretinoin for three months and got wise about a good routine thanks to SKA. Unfortunatley Tretinoin didn't work out for me and my acne got 10x worse for the whole three months I was using it. I know it probably would have worked out in the long run but the acne and purge begun to deeply effect me emotionally so I decided to look for a different option. I got wise and started using PH neutral or free of all the bad stuff products. My first strike of luck was the ordinary Niacinamide - I find that it helps a lot with healing scars and inflammation. I then read about Spearmint tea and started drinking three cups a day for a couple of weeks. At the same time as this I also started with Cliycinamidin. I started three things at once really and it was working but I didn't know what was doing what and if they were all necesarry - My skin started clearing rapidly, and I even had a foundation free day at work. However I ran out of spearmint tea. And my pimples have started coming back. I'm not disappointed because now I know that it was actually working and I'm happy that I might just have found a pretty simple solution for my acne,​So I have concluded:Spearmint tea seems to be treating the causeClindamycin treats the problem on the surface topicallyTO Niacinamide and Zinc heals the scars and reduces the inflammationDefinitely sticking with these three and are gonna try for a home run with them! :P​Would love to hear about anyone else's experiences with spearmint tea!
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