How long does it take to treat skin problems?

There is really no standard answer to this question that can be applied to everyone. It may be as fast as 2 weeks to see obvious improvement, or as slow as a year and a half or even longer. The core depends on what problem you have, whether your adjustment ideas are correct, and whether you have stepped on any pitfalls and hindered your progress.

I have been a skin care instructor for almost 6 years, and I have seen too many people who make detours. There was a 22-year-old girl who suffered from inflammatory red and swollen acne after working on projects for more than half a month. She used to blindly follow the trend of using high-concentration salicylic acid, and the acne became more serious. When she came to see me, her entire jawline was covered with red nodules that felt hard to the touch. First, I asked her to stop all the harsh medicines and replace them with gentle barrier-repairing skin care products. She only applied anti-inflammatory anti-acne gel on the acne spots. In addition, she was forced to go to bed before 11 o'clock and try to avoid touching high-sugar and oily things as much as possible. She also has strong execution ability. In less than 3 weeks, those red and hard acnes have basically disappeared, and even the red marks have faded.

There are also those that are excruciatingly slow. Last year, I met a 30-year-old sister who had hereditary freckles since she was a child. In addition, her face was covered with sunburns due to her neglect of sunscreen while running field trips all year round. In the past two years, she went to a small beauty salon to do exfoliation programs, which made her face sensitive, and her whole face turned red and hot when she was hot. In this case, there was no need to rush. She had to spend three months to stabilize the barrier before slowly using low-irritation whitening ingredients, combined with gentle photorejuvenation once a month. After nearly 10 months of conditioning, her spots faded to the point where they could no longer be seen due to social distance, and her skin finally no longer turned red like Guan Gong as soon as she entered an air-conditioned room.

There is a lot of quarrel on the Internet about this matter now. One group says that "7 days for whitening and 10 days for acne removal" is all an IQ tax. The other group says that they can see the effect within a week of using a certain product. In fact, there is nothing wrong with what they say. If you just temporarily tanned a little, or occasionally got pimples from eating hot pot, using the right product for a week or so will really make the difference. ； But if you have long-standing problems such as chloasma, hormonal face, or cystic acne that have been recurring for several years, and you still believe in the nonsense about 7-day results, you are likely to use banned products containing hormones, which will make the problem worse.

In fact, skin conditioning is really similar to raising succulents. If it is dry due to lack of water, you can pour some water and bask in the sun and it will grow back the next day. But if the roots are rotten, you have to prune the roots first, dry them, replace them with breathable new soil, and slowly wait for them to grow new roots and fill the pot. There is no rush.

Don't always stare at the mirror and count the days in anticipation of when it will be better. As long as the conditioning method you choose is gentle and non-irritating, and does not make the skin stinging, red, or break out, taking your time will be much faster than messing around. I have seen too many people change products after half a month and find no effect. They spend a lot of money and their face becomes a testing ground for various ingredients. The problem that was supposed to be adjusted in two or three months has been delayed for a year or two and is still repeated.