Orangeous Dailies

I have oily skin and I’m well aware of it. Exercising just adds a lot more oil to my face.

So I thought that by washing my face with hand soap first, then using facial foam, I could keep my face dry and clean. True enough, my face felt extremely dry. But it became very oily (even worse than before) within the next 2 hours.

I continued this for two weeks or so, satisfied that I have washed my face thoroughly.

One morning, I woke up to an eruption of cystic acne and whiteheads all over my face. It was so bad that I didn’t dare to look at myself in the mirror.

I stopped using hand soap to wash my face and the acne subsided. Nightly applications of pure lemon juice (stings like crazy) all over the face managed to dry out the remaining acne. I’ll probably give it another few more days to clear up.

I’ll never ever use hand soap on my face again.