I kept adding more products to fix my acne scars and it made everything worse
I've been trying to fade acne scars and improve my skin texture for a while now and I thought the answer was just using more stuff. I was layering glycolic acid retinol,vitamin c, exfoliating masks basically anything I heard was good for scars but my skin just kept looking more red and uneven which was so frustrating because I was actually putting in effort and it felt like nothing was working or like my skin was just broken.
Turns out I was over exfoliating and not giving my skin any time to recover. Some of my products were also just not right for my skin type and were probably irritating it more than helping.
A dermatologist I follow recommended a skinanalzyer to keep track and log products and I downloaded it. It scans your skin and looks at your whole routine together. It basically told me I was overdoing it, that some of my steps were doing the same thing and were redundant, a few products I logged on Thea weren't even targeting what I thought they were targeting.
Once I cut my routine down and stuck to fewer things that actually made sense together my skin started calming down like way less redness and much more even
I think a lot of us assume the more the better when it comes to actives but sometimes your skin just needs less and the right combination not more products thrown at it
Has anyone else gone through this or something similar?