Affordable skin care for super oily acne prone skin?

[Feniks]

Hmm, if so many oily skin products didn't work for you... are you sure you have oily skin? You might have dry skin instead, and it is breaking out because you are using products meant for oily skin, and thereby drying it out and causing it to produce oils like mad.

Try something more gentle and meant for normal or dry skin like Cetaphil.

 

[grapesoda]

I agree with Feniks. I just started using Joesoef Skin Care, and I read about it on the allure.com forums. They have really nice customer service, and they will send you free samples and give skin care advice. Just go to their website. I like it because I also used to use Proactive, Neutrogena, Bedescu, Murad, Shiseido, Clinique...ugh, the list goes on and on...anyway, I really like this line. But, get a sample first of their sulfur soap. That stuff is amazing!

To get something right away at the drugstore, you could try neutrogena. Also, Queene Helene is supposed to make a great mask for oily skin. But again, maybe you have dry skin, and are over dyring it, making it more oily? Apparently, it is possible to have dry oily skin.

 

[maryfitz24]

I like clinical basics skin care.

 

[lindas]

okay...this is my regimen since sunday 6/30....neutrogena oil free cream wash in the am...then in the evening...neutrogena invigorating foaming scrub with the microscrubbers in the evening...and plus i do the aspirin mask...and i must say..my acne is clearing up....the red spots on my chin are fading away....hth

 

[Makeup-aholic]

Thanks for th e info girls

 

[magosienne]

i'm using alep soap as a daily cleanser. it's really great as my skin is also sensitive. as for my moisturizer, my skin is also dehydrated so i use LRP hydraphase. love it. for topical treatments, tea tree oil is helpful (i'm not sure i'll like the smell one day though).

 

[SarahStarFlower]

I am on a variation of Dan Kern's regimen (acne.org) and the cleanser I use is Neutrogena's Oil Free Wash... It might be too harsh for some people, but I love it! (My skin isn't sensitive at all, though. If anything, it's quite insensitive.) It takes care of all my little whiteheads. Combined with Clean and Clear's Persagel, I'm close to being completely clear.

 

[monniej]

i'm in the same boot with you and i don't think you'll find anything in the drug store that's going to work for you. i think you'll need to find a dermalogica salon. that's the only line that i've found that actually works and it ain't cheap! murad was pretty good too, although after a while it made my skin really dry.

 

[Solimar]

Honestly, I have never found anything that helps other than Rx. Well, have you tried Murad? I use an Rx called Prascion, which is a cleanser, which has sulfer in it, and it works amazingly well...I am very allergic to BP. In any case, it has helped my skin tremendously along with Clindamycin, an Rx topical. I would try Murad if you haven't. I know many people have success with agents other than BP.

Accutane is always an option, and don't forget about spironolactone, which is prescribed to women usually for a treatment of something like PCOS, but has been prescribed for acne as well, depending on your derm/gyn.

...but as always, last resort things.