Thread: What if i have acne?

Looks like acne to me.

I have terminal acne . Doesn't seem like I ever will completely get rid of it.

The straight shave seems to keep it down better than any other type of shaving and it creates less ingrown hairs too. I personally would just shave. Use a quality natural soap Like Mama bear or the gentlemans quarter and that will help too. I then like to finish off with an Alum block then a moisturising balm. This is the best method of exfoliation there is.

Good luck hope it improves, I expect it will.

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ive been diagnosed as acne?! :P yea im definitely hoping and thinking that a straight will help this. well, once i get past my learning curve and mark my face up! haha

i wont go as far to say i like pain, but i dont mind it at all, i mean, moderate pain, gun shots and stuff i have no clue. but, not worried about applyin an alum block or a pencil to clean anythin up, or any splashs..

man.. just wanna buy some stuff and start shavin away :P

I'd definitely say get an Alum block. That stuff's been around for thousands of years for a reason. But the alum is what's going to help you after your shave.... if you nick yourself and to help close up your pores. I'd also consider your skin before you shave so there's less for you to chop off, so to speak. Quick and easy without a lot of perusing the beauty products in the store - get a Proactive kit and use it. It's going to get worse before it gets better, but it will get better. I used to be a professional diver and ingrown hairs were a problem, obviously not on my face, but I know exactly how it behaves. I just really see the beauty in a straight razor shave and I think your face deserves to reap the very best rewards from it. I guess it would be like buying a cheapo straight thinking you're going to get a high class shave... skimping on your face just isn't worth it. Obviously this is all IMHO.

Originally Posted by Viola

I'd also consider your skin before you shave so there's less for you to chop off, so to speak. Quick and easy without a lot of perusing the beauty products in the store - get a Proactive kit and use it. It's going to get worse before it gets better, but it will get better.

What do you mean, like, go to a dematologist and get one? Not familiar with how proactiv works (i used to take accutane when i had real bad acne). Then wait for my skin to clear up pretty much all the way before using a straight? Or, treat it then shave, just want to make sure I fully understand.

As for you bein a diver, awesome! I am a PADI Divemaster, used to live down in Stuart, FL and helped with classes or just runnin drag during checkouts for instructors... Rest of time spent buggin or hunting and workin in dive shops

Originally Posted by ctufano

What do you mean, like, go to a dematologist and get one? Not familiar with how proactiv works (i used to take accutane when i had real bad acne). Then wait for my skin to clear up pretty much all the way before using a straight? Or, treat it then shave, just want to make sure I fully understand.

As for you bein a diver, awesome! I am a PADI Divemaster, used to live down in Stuart, FL and helped with classes or just runnin drag during checkouts for instructors... Rest of time spent buggin or hunting and workin in dive shops

I think you can pick up Proactive at the drugstore now. It's just an easy system to work with. Again, at the risk of going all fem on you, it has all the steps you need to treat your skin right... and it's all in the same box. I used to be on Accutane too, so I can relate. Give it a week of using it and see if it starts to clear up. It may take a little longer. As with any product, it's going to get worse at first because it's going to be attacking and drawing out the impurities. IMHO, I'd lay off shaving for as long as you can while you start treating it. That way you aren't constantly irritating your skin in the same spot over and over. The men on here have great advice for skin care so listen to them too. It's just, unfortunately, all skin wasn't created equally so you're going to have to find what's going to work for your skin.

Oh, and yes, NAUI Dive Mistress here. Used to live in the Keys in my former life. I'm in Orlando now.

will check at publix tomorrow! fortunately, i dont mind lettin my face grow haha, in fact, i love it!

im in orlando too, senior at UCF

ctufano-

I pm'ed you an article on ingrown hairs that I just found and it's along with what I was trying to convey. Hope it helps.

Another old man (42) chiming in.... once you start treating your face to a hot towel and some decent shave soap, like Colleen's, applied with a brush you will begin to do a better job ex-foliating and truly cleaning your skin your acne will be much less of a problem. you will be amazed at what a nice job glycerin SOAP (not detergent) and water will do for your face

Originally Posted by Viola

IMHO, I'd lay off shaving for as long as you can while you start treating it. That way you aren't constantly irritating your skin in the same spot over and over.

Just to add one more conflicting opinion to this thread, I have been told this advice in the past, but I find that I get more acne when i don't shave. My theory is that when you have longer whiskers, it holds oils against your skin.

it makes sense, but also, i find that if i have some actual acne on my face where ishave if i let it grow out it clears up a good bit lol. i guess it varies? dunno... last night i used some apricot scrub in the showeron my face on my two bottom corners where the mob of ingrowns are and it helps a little -- hurt like a buzzard but... helped. exfoliated some of the skin and what not.

gonna let it clear up and then buy some tweezers and try to break the seal of any other ingrowns. go from there. maybe buy some cleaners u guys have been talkin bout