I am a twelve year old girl. I get acne mostly on my forehead (mainly between my eyebrows), near my nose and on my chin. My nose is really oily too, i dont know why! I have used nutregena oil-free acne wash, nutregena rapid clear, and clearasil daily face wash, but all of them either did nothing, or made my acne worse, or dried out my skin! Right now all i am doing is washing my face with plain soap daily. It helps somewhat. My mom wotn let me use any zit cream or anything, only face washes, because she says the other stuff will dry out my skin. What is some things i can do to get rid of my oily skin and acne without drying out my skin?. Nothign too expensive, i cant afford proactive or any of that stuff. preferably natural.

Does anyone have any tips or tricks that worked well for you to reduce the swelling in a pimple within a day or so? Tomorrow is the first day of school for me and I’d rather people don’t remember me on my first day of high school as ‘the girl with the huge zit.’ Thanks for any and all help!
I just wanted to add that I use a face soap with 10% benzoyl peroxide (I use that twice a day) and Tazorac cream every night.

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My mom keeps saying that its because I'm dirty and that I dont wash my fash good. I used a cleanser and srub everyday. I used to have acne long time ago too but then I started using proactive and it got better. My skin was really good and I thought I didnt have to use Proctive anymore. Like 2-3 days after I started seeing my acne. I didnt want use Proactive again cus I heard it can damage yur skin and it has a chemica in it that makes your skin addicted to it. So what should i do?

I have a cousin who has flawless skin and her only problem is that her nose often gets red from blemishes or zits. She nevers gets any zit from any part of her face except on the tip of her nose. She's 20 and she's afraid of putting anything on her face.

What remedies can she do to prevent those? It's embarassing her. She's often called Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer because of this.

Advices? Opinions. Thanks.