Retin-A Works! (Even the Second Time Around) *with PICS!* - Germantown, TN

Hey guys. I am back on Retin-A. This time with Finacea Foam to use in the morning. I have been on it for 42 days now, and I am not impressed/happy/content with the results so far at all. I am really thinking it is the finacea foam, but maybe I just have not given it this process long enough to critique yet. The second time I was on retin-a (from my first post in 2013), by day 33, I feel as if my kin was improving faster than it is now, and it was worse then. Maybe because I was on the antibiotic pill as well. Also, I was on Sumaxin washpads then. This time, I am only using soap with 10% sulfur in it. The foam just seems to make my face oily, and I don't like that. I am hoping by day 50 I will really start to see improvement. Also, I am using the generic tretinoin, not actually Retin-A brand, and I am using the cream in the tube and not the pump. I do believe all of that makes a difference.

Fingers crossed my skin keeps on this path. Super smooth and dark spots really starting to fade more

For the past 4 weeks, I have stopped using sumaxin wash cloth pads, and now wash my face with St. Ives Blemish Control Apricot Scrub in the morning followed by St. Ives Timeless Skin Collagen Elastin Moisturizer. After exercising, I wash with Cetaphil Gentle Facial Cleanser, and it doesn't dry my face out, so I don't moisturize after. At night, I wash for 20-30 seconds with black soap (you can get from beauty supply stores and amazon; i got mine from a kiosk at the mall for $5) and follow with retin-a 10-15 min later. Black soap is very drying, though! Let me tell you. I did it morning and night for about a couple of weeks, but it got too drying; that's why i switched to the St. Ives scrub in the morning. It's a scrub, but it's not that rough on the skin. So now, the only prescribed medicine I'm using for my skin now is retin-a.