"Oh it'll get better in a few years, it's just hormones" is a lie so many of us struggling with acne get told.There are also the classic lines: "But are you washing your face properly?" and "Have you considered not wearing make-up?" Honestly, it's exhausting because the condition of our skin is out of most of our hands.
We can have a perfect cleansing routine, we can have a strict diet and we can shop all the active ingredients dermatologists put on their TikTok shops and it can often still make no difference to stubborn acne.
I've suffered with breakouts of varying severities for 15 years now. I'm 31 and, up until the other week, my skin only seemed to be getting more and more congested and break-out prone with every birthday.
What changed my complexion? One little bar of soap. I have to put out the disclaimer before I get stuck into the £5 solution to all my skin woes that I've also been on a break from birth control, and it could be having a positive result on my skin.
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