Acne Cream and Sensory Issues

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This might not just be solely an aspie problem, either.

I tend to have bad acne, which annoys me. Still, I seldom use any acne cream because I am usually too lazy to put it on. Also, I hate the sensation that stuff gives my face. It's cold, wet, itchy, and it burns. It's terribly uncomfortable.

Can anybody else relate?

I cannot wear any type of cream on my skin because it makes me feel like I'm coated with engine oil. Last time someone made me put cream on my hands, I spent a whole two minutes washing my hands to get it off.

I stick to popping my zits. It works the best for me, and I'm very tolerant when it comes to pain.

I have trouble using lotions and creams that feel "wet", but far less trouble using ointments that feel "oily". My OT has given me an exercise of using shower gel instead of soap - I have to wet my body, put this horrible stuff on and then rinse off. The previous exercise was applying moisturiser, but I found that too much. Doing these exercises builds up tolerance to other unpleasant sensory experiences.

Yeah, I cant stand creams. I only use light lotions when absolutely necessary.

hmmm.... yeah same here.. I actually don't like cream much.. The feeling is not the best, and I'm not sure why or if it has to do with anything. But I'm learning.

I prefer lotion or oil. Jojoba oil seems to work fine for me.

When I was a Teenager I tried the a Acne Cream and it actually eat away my skin ya so stinging from it.

Accutane. It's the s**t.

I used to dab cream on any zit that might become cystic, then pop the rest.

It always burned my skin and I hated the greeasy feeling.

Maybe tell your doctor about it and change your cream? I have ugly acne too and I had many creams. I had to change one of them, because of burning after some months. There are a lot of acne meds. Now I take pills, because creams weren't good enough.

Best acne treatment? Wash your face at least twice a day. Use an unscented soap with moisturizer in it if you are worried about over drying your skin.

^Wrong. Acne is a skin infection, like any other. If washing made it go away, no one would have acne- especially not severe types which are true hell to live with.

Either anti-biotics or a serious reduction of sebum production is needed.
The former is very dangerous long-term, as it causes imbalances in normal skin flora and can beg for worse infections caused by newly competition-free organisms.

Keeping the outside clean doesn't particularly-worry the thousands-strong colonies of bacteria hanging out under the skin.

Exactly. I explained myself it's better to feel the creams (I hate them) than feel the pain of acne. Severe acne just hurts. I am very clean person, it's my skin wrong functioning.

I have bad acne to, the stuff the doctor gave me works great. Problem is it itches, a lot. So most of the time i don't use it...

Green tea either applied topically to the skin or just drinking it will generally help acne and skin quality. For me, I'd rather change my diet or routine slightly than take pharmaceutic drugs for things. Then again I'm untrusting of modern medicine for the most part. Just try researching what possible herbs, vitamins, etc, could help, and then just try it before you go for the "big guns" of pharma. That's the way I look at it. I'd much rather just go spend like 4 bucks on herbs or weird Chinese tea or something than try pharm and go to a doctor and all the associated things with it, plus I got no insurance now either so it's no longer an option for me.

Another thing that helped my acne though, was stopping soap and shampoo in the shower, I just rinse my body off under water thoroughly and scrub with a washcloth. Now as an adult, I found out I was "right" about my dislike of soap and shampoo as a kid. I never had horrendous acne, but what this does is allow the oils on your skin to "stabilize" a bit better. You're using chemicals to get oil off your skin that your skin for whatever reason feels the need to make, so because of this, it just makes more oils, then you get oily skin, then it goes on from there.

In my experience, though, not eating dairy really cuts down on my acne. Also, a healthier diet and exercise will help, too. More processed food for me=more acne, same with more oils and fats in the diet, too, at least in my experience.

But, what works for me obviously won't work for everyone, and some people just need different things, so I don't know if my advice is very valid, and I'm not a doctor or anything.