Is it ok to mix skin care treatments?

[Anonymous]

So I've had a horrible pimple for over a week now. My regular skin care treatment isn't helping at all. So I mixed up a bunch of stuff. I used moisturizer, acne cream, some vitamins that I mashed into a powder, and lemon juice (cause I read about its use as a natural remedy). Is it possible that it could damage my skin more. I haven't put it on my face yet. I'm just desperate to get this pimple off my face!

[coconutelixir]

Look into what would be good spot treatments for acne since the pimple already exists. A lot of what you might be doing is focused more on being preventative rather than treating a full blown pimple. I would recommend anything with tea tree oil in it (I love The Body Shop's Tea Tree Face Wash... amazing) or benzoyl peroxide. I personally don't find salicyclic acid helpful, but it may work for you. Wash with it and use a toner with acne fighting ingredients as well. Do NOT pick the pimple or rub it harshly with a towel. You don't want it to scar.

As for home remedies, I would strongly recommend using the lemon juice with honey as a honey mask. It's very soothing to the skin and antibacterial which helps with acne. Another idea is a yogurt/turmeric/gram flour or corn flour mask. Yogurt is antibacterial and turmeric is anti-inflammatory which will help reduce the redness of the pimple. Th gram flour or corn flour sucks oil from oily skin if you have oily skin.

My roommate liked putting toothpaste on the pimple for overnight. It somewhat works.

[emmabee11]

Try petrolium jelly it's good for you skin, i get a couple spots near the corners of my mouth sometimes that just won't do away, petrolium jelly makes them disappear very quickly and it's amazing for general skin care too because it gives your skin back all the oils it's missing, it makes your skin super soft after.

[Iron_Man]

Its ok Just get right back on it

[RedRain]

I wouldn't mix acne cream with lemon, just in case. You need to choose one treatment or the other, because mixing stuff can cause you a bad reaction from the skin.
And that pimple won't be there forever :) Don't squeeze it or anything, just choose one of the treatments, stick to it, and will eventually go away, be patient. And if it doesn't happen to go away, see a dermathologist.
In the meantime you can cover it with some make up. Use a good corrector.

[Yeahno12]

Yeah; the only real way you could cause further damage is to prematurely get rid of the pimple (as in popping/squeezing it before it's ready to come off.) Make sure to cleanse your face well before applying the natural mask, and moisturise afterwards!

[pinkbubble]

Dont put it
u dont know what they were made of and mixing them may be dangerous
normally a pimple disapears after 8 days if u dont touch it so leave it it will disapear by itself if it embarasses u cover it :)

[Asker]

I used it. It was super uneffective! It literally did nothing at all to my skin. So I'm just gonna keep trying to cover it up.

[luvstoned4him]

I dont think you should mix all these different stuff together. They may have some negative impact on your skin. If you want to see results, try one method first for a few days then alternate but never , mix all of those together.