Beauty Tips For Body Care
Sorry in advance, I'm a complete skincare amateur and rambly writer.As the title indicates, I've been using bar soap on my face for 24 years with little to no issues. I never really had acne before now, even if I skipped out on washing my face for a few days or didn't change my pillow case for a month.In the past year, I decided to try and take skincare more seriously, especially since it was getting more noticeable that I wasn't applying any kind of moisturizer after washing my face. That was about a year ago, and I started getting acne about a month to a month and a half afterwards.My routine, if you can call it that:Rinse with warm waterCetaphil Gentle Skin cleanser/Cerave Hydrating Cleanser/La Roche Posay Effaclar (after I started getting the acne issues)Rinse with cold waterbelif Manology Smart Recharger after skin driesMad Hippie Vitamin C Serum (I have some very light redness and general skin tone unevenness on my cheeks and heard this might help) 15 minutes after rechargerI don't wear sunscreen particularly often because I'm awake at night and indoors whenever the sun is up due to my job. When I do though, it's Hera Sun Mate Daily.My issues:At first, I was getting forehead acne, small red bumps with no head. This transitioned into the same kind of acne on my left cheek, and now into a group of large, blind pimples on my left cheek. I'm pretty good about leaving acne alone, but the ones on my cheek never really fully healed. The bumps stayed and are brownish-red, even though it's been a few months (~August). It's also weird because I didn't have acne in all places at once. Right now, my right cheek and forehead are fine.I think the problems stem from the moisturizer selection, and I'm scared to try other products. I think my skin is on the dryer side, but anything made for dry skin, even cleanser, seems to create and exacerbate any acne issues. At the same time, I'm hesitant to try anything made for oily skin because, well, my skin's not oily, and the product descriptions/testimonials or reviews seem to highlight the drying power of stuff made to clear acne.My questions:I'll try asking questions so that I have to information to help find the right product for myself, though any recommendations would be highly appreciated!Are moisturizers supposed to make skin imperfections more pronounced? The Smart recharger seems to make even small red bumps I never see really noticeable.Are men's moisturizers the same as gender-neutral/women's moisturizers? I keep seeing mixed answers in articles online.Maybe the wrong place to ask this, but should I keep using bar soap? It has the least effects on my skin by far.What are some general descriptors for skincare products that I should look for given what I know about my skin?Unrelated, but I think I have keratosis pilaris on the back of my arms and possibly above my knees/lower thighs. These usually don't bother me, but the usual solution of SA lotion didn't work and now I'm determined to get rid of them just to say I did.Thanks for reading all the way here if you did, I'd appreciate answers to any of these questions!tl;dr Used to use bar soap, skincare products do weird things to face. Have dry-ish skin, but dry skin products create acne and oily skin products sound scary. Online articles too general/binary to be informative. Would like advice on how to proceed and research skincare.
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