I’ve tried more acne remedies than you can throw a stick at!
I’m in my 40′s now and I started with acne when I was in my teens. Before I even got facial acne, I used to get breakouts at the tops of my arms – nowhere else, just there!
It wasn’t too severe to start off with, but it was bad enough to make me feel self-conscious about wearing anything that didn’t cover it.
As I approached my 20′s, my acne got worse and I started to get it on my face, back, chest and neck, so I needed to find some type of acne remedies. This coincided with starting a very stressful job, which, I was told by my doctor, was probably a big contributing factor to my acne becoming worse. (Mind you, even when I gave up the stressful job, the acne stayed with me, so go figure!)
Since then, I’ve suffered with acne on and off on a pretty regular basis, although now, it’s pretty much confined to my face. To make it worse, I’ve got 3 sisters and a brother, none of whom have ever needed any acne remedies and I’ve never seen either of my parents with even so much as a pimple!
Acne Remedies to Treat Adult Acne
As I got older, I got more or less got used to dealing with my acne, but what I hated almost as much as the acne itself was the way it could make me feel, even after all those years.
Sometimes I’d get really mad that I let it bother me so much.
At my age, I felt that I should be able to deal with it, but sometimes, when I met new people, it was genuinely difficult to look them in the eye and to not literally squirm with embarrassment when I noticed someone staring at me when I was out.
I hated how much embarrassment and anxiety even a minor flare-up could cause.
People I know would say things like, “don’t let it get you down” and “it really doesn’t look all that bad”. I knew they were only trying to be supportive, but of course, none of those people actually had acne!
And when I was younger, my acne was always so unpredictable. You could bet that if I was praying for clear skin for an important occasion, I’d breakout as if by magic.
I remember once when I thought I had my acne pretty under control, buying a fantastic dress for a special family event and then not feeling confident enough to wear it because I got a fresh breakout of spots right at the top of my chest a couple of days before. I ended up going to that party in a high-necked, long-sleeved little black dress!
Like I said, over the years, I’ve tried countless acne remedies ; creams, lotions, pills, scrubs, herbal tinctures, salt rubs, hydrogen peroxide, masks, poultices, heat treatments, steam treatments, diets and healing and if there are any other acne remedies I have tried those too.
Some have worked pretty well for a while, but then they’ve just seemed to stop working. I don’t know why this should be, but it’s pretty demoralizing when it happens – you think you’ve found something that works and then …… it doesn’t.
In fact, a couple of the treatments made my skin worse than it was in the first place and looking back on that list now, I’m not surprised, but when you’re desperate, you’ll try pretty much anything!
I always said that if I ever found any acne remedies that worked really well, I’d put an ad in the papers!
Well, I have found a product that seems to be working really well for me and on reflection, rather than write to the papers, I thought I’d write about it on the internet.
Acne Remedies that Work
For the last eight months, I’ve been using a skincare range by a company called Zenmed, which has not only got my acne under control, but my scars are fading too!
The products I’ve been using are from the Zenmed Derma Cleanse System – they’re not the cheapest products on the market, but they’re certainly not the most expensive either. As far as I’m concerned though, they’re worth every penny. (Had I not been happy with the results, there’s a money-back guarantee, but thankfully, I never had to bother with that).
This is the longest I’ve ever used a product and it´s kept doing what I want it to do!
When I first started with it, I was a little apprehensive as there was some irritation and dryness for the first few days, but I just put it down to the products doing their stuff and anyway, it was nothing I couldn’t put up with.
I’m so glad I stayed with it.
After about ten days, I could see a noticeable difference in my skin. The texture was smoother and the breakouts were less. The greasy patches on my cheeks, chin and around my nose were almost gone and the scarring was becoming a little less noticeable.
By the end of the first month, people I saw every day were commenting on the improvement in my skin. People who I hadn’t seen for a while were doing double-takes when they saw me again!
For the first time since I was a teenager, I had a complexion that didn’t look too bad in natural daylight and the scarring had faded considerably.
Eight months down the line and I’m even happier with the results now than I was then – if I hadn’t seen it for myself, I honestly wouldn’t have believed it.
I can’t tell you how amazing it is to be on the way to clear skin after all these years. It actually brings me to tears sometimes – sounds crazy, but it’s true!
And I know it sounds vain, but I just can’t stop looking in the mirror! I don’t even mind having my picture taken these days. When my skin was bad, I’d avoid cameras like the plague.
People ask me if I’m going to stop using Zenmed products now that my skin is clear.
That’s something only a person who’d never had acne, or spent years looking for effective acne remedies, would say!
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