Ugh, of course
Photo: Tetra Images/Getty Images I once dated a guy who gently suggested, while I was complaining about what to put on my skin to make my acne go away, that I might be better served by “just leaving it alone.” I snapped — “What do you know?” — and he apologized. Meanwhile, I was on three different prescriptions, and I’d switched from one antibiotic to another, since the dermatologist worried I’d gotten immune to the first one.
A recent story in Medium’s health section, Elemental, examines why acne appears to be “more prevalent than ever.” Despite concrete numbers being hard to come by, acne is apparently “on the rise” among both teens and adults, and in particular among women.
The Elemental story also cites a statistic that roughly one-third of adult women have acne, while only one in five men do. The causes and solutions for acne are notoriously hard to pinpoint, as anyone who suffers from it will tell you. But I like the idea that these male-female numbers might be vaguely related, and that the more we do to our skin, the worse it gets. It’s a tempting and maddening idea, anyway.
Later these facts seemed less paradoxical, and they informed my own approach to skincare: I’m still washing my face only with water, although I did also get a number of washcloths. My skin seems calmer and gets fewer pimples than it did when I was using a bunch of products and prescriptions, which I’m happy about, although I still have no idea what caused my acne in the first place, or what eventually made it go away .
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