How to fight / prevent / overcome ACNE, breakouts and pimples

I will share my experience and products with you. I'm not an expert but, these are the products that worked for my skin.

-          Remove the makeup - Garnier oil based eye makeup remover






Firstly, I will begin by removing my makeup with an oil based eye makeup remover from Garnier because I use a waterproof eyeliner. Then I will cleanse my face with "Perfectly Clean" From Estée Lauder. It's a Multi-action Foam cleanser/Purifying mask. Which means you can use it as an everyday cleanse so you put it on your face and massage it over your wet skin and rinse it off, which I do every day. But you can also use it as a mask. If you use it as a mask, you have to use it twice a week and massage it over your skin leave it there about 3 minutes and then rinse it off. I didn't use it as a mask because I think it will dry out my skin because I have a dry/combination skin.




After the cleansing I would pop some pimples with my very thin needle, but the next step is very crucial. After popping the pimple or with a thin needle ALWAYS CLEAN IT with a cleaning product most people don’t do this which may be one of the reasons that they think that popping pimples are bad because if you don’t clean it the bacteria will spread and you will get even more pimples. After popping my pimples with a thin needle I would use the tea tree oil from the body shop. The tea tree oil is an extract from a plant which fights and removes the bacteria of the pimples. After cleaning it thoroughly with the tea tree oil I will put a face mask on my face.



I won't put a mask on my face not very often, maybe once in a month. Because I think it would dry out my skin and what you have to know is if you think your skin is too oily and you skip the moisturizer and use a mask very often, it would get you even more pimples because your skin is drying out and your skin will think it needs more oil so in the end you will end up having even more pimples than before.

The masks that I use every now and then are from Freeman and De tuinen. De tuinen is a store in Holland, which sells products made from natural products.

The clay mask of Freeman is less concentrated so the clay mask of De Tuinen works a bit better. Freeman has many masks and I chose the clay mask Mint & Lemon because, it’s the most effective one against breakout and large pores. The lemon and mint cools the skin down from irritation or redness and the clay absorbs oils to minimize shine and the appearance of large pores.




This green clay mask penetrates deep into pores. The tea tree oil and the lavender oil are additional active ingredients. Green clay is very cleansing, rich in enzymes and contains many beneficial minerals. This mask is a lot stronger and that’s why I don’t cover my whole face with it, but just the parts where the pimples are. People with oily skin can try to cover the whole face. It would be even more effectively if you put a mask on after a shower because the pores are wide open from the warmth.




After rinsing the mask off, my skin would feel a bit dry so when I do put a mask on I will also put a serum on afterward. My skin would be fresh and clean and then it’s smart to feed your skin with good stuff and that will be done by a serum.

I use a serum from the line Skin Perfection of L’oreal Paris. This serum has a powerful formula enriched with Perline-P and patented LR 2412. It claims to perfect your skin by penetrating through the skin’s epidermis layers. Pores will be minimized, the tone of the skin will be more even and the skin will have a silky-soft texture. The satin-touch serum helps boost hydration and refine skin texture. I don’t use it very often and I neither have large pores so it’s hard to tell whether it works or not, but it does a great job at making my skin soft whenever I use it. Also, I trust L’oreal Paris because the serum has a great formula.



After the serum I will moisturize my face and that’s also from the line Skin perfection. All products from this line has almost same ingredients and all have the same target. So it would even have more effect if you use all the products from that line but, it may be too much.