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so if ur like me and no treatment was working for ur acne, there is a chance it could be Malassezia folliculitis and not acne vulgaris.
From my experience, they look exactly like whiteheads but just pop up around the mustache area, as well as jaw. (anywhere you can potentially grow hair.) And once you pop them, u can almost push out what feels like a seed. The blemish also seems not to heal until you push this "seed" out.
looks kinda like this, but mine wasnt as severe obv
So after probably seven years of treating it like acne vulgaris i switched my treatment protocol to this and it completley got rid of it. I now have the best skin I have ever had, no blemishes etc.
PSA- when you first start the protocol, it will seem like its getting worse. but this is just the fungus dying off. I noticed way more individual "whiteheads" at first but they were wayyy smaller than usual.
First check all of your skincare products on this website. https://folliculitisscout.com/ , if it comes back as a hit, toss it in the trash and find an alternative that doesnt.
Every other day until it cleared I would use medicated selsun blue shampoo u can get for cheap at any store as a mask which I would leave on for 2-3 min.
As well as using Lotrimen Ultra on my face every night.
Other things I did was make sure I washed my pillowcase at least once a week, and use my blue and red light therapy machine
From my experience, they look exactly like whiteheads but just pop up around the mustache area, as well as jaw. (anywhere you can potentially grow hair.) And once you pop them, u can almost push out what feels like a seed. The blemish also seems not to heal until you push this "seed" out.
looks kinda like this, but mine wasnt as severe obv
So after probably seven years of treating it like acne vulgaris i switched my treatment protocol to this and it completley got rid of it. I now have the best skin I have ever had, no blemishes etc.
PSA- when you first start the protocol, it will seem like its getting worse. but this is just the fungus dying off. I noticed way more individual "whiteheads" at first but they were wayyy smaller than usual.
First check all of your skincare products on this website. https://folliculitisscout.com/ , if it comes back as a hit, toss it in the trash and find an alternative that doesnt.
Every other day until it cleared I would use medicated selsun blue shampoo u can get for cheap at any store as a mask which I would leave on for 2-3 min.
As well as using Lotrimen Ultra on my face every night.
Other things I did was make sure I washed my pillowcase at least once a week, and use my blue and red light therapy machine
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