My Search For An Acne Scar Cure

Like I said, my search for an acne scar cure began about 3 years ago after my eldest daughter asked me again what was wrong with my face, but my story begins way before that.

Since 8th grade, I’d had trouble with pimples and had been called the usual names like “pizza face”, “crater face” and a lot more that I’ve been trying to forget. I’d also tried just about every acne treatment I could find with little to moderate success. During high school and college I slopped so many different acne creams and ointments on my skin I turned it into a science experiment at times. I tried many different acne clearing diets and forced my momma down to Walgreens every week for something new.

My doctors have suggested everything from Accutane, Antibiotics, Zenmed, Oratin, Benezoyl peroxide to reflexology but nothing helped.

Once I graduated college, I figured I’d be safe but then came the adult acne. My husband was patient but I know it was difficult for him to kiss me due to the pimples sometimes. When I was pregnant with my first child things were really bad. My hormones went crazy and every day it seemed to get worse and worse.

I really wanted to be like everyone else, to have clear skin and get rid of my blackheads. As an accountant, I was used to using the Internet to find information regarding new tax regulations and other boring stuff and it suddenly occurred to me to search for acne treatments and acne remedies online.

I got myself the first internet connection I could find and went in search of salvation. Most importantly I found out I wasn’t alone. There were a LOT of people on the internet who suffered from the same oily skin, frequent breakouts and nasty pimples that I did!

I also found the snake oil salesmen and bought a lot of their products before I knew better. My UPS driver at the office wondered why I was getting so many personal deliveries. Even though the prescriptions didn’t work, some of the diets were downright strange and some of the creams made my face hurt, I knew there had to be an acne cure out there for me.

I began to narrow down the type of solution I was looking for. With children in my house, it had to be cheap, natural and not just a cream I put on the pimples and blackheads when they arrived.

I wasn’t looking for a miracle, just a solution to my acne problem that didn’t just treat a breakout, but was a holistic, natural acne solution to reduce breakouts and clear up my existing scarring.

Eventually I found it.

Why I need an acne scar cure…

A lot of people asked me why I would start a blog about something embarassing like my acne scars, and the answer was easy – “I want to share what I learned with others.” I have two daughters (4 and 12) who’ve asked me about my acne scars from the time they were able to talk. I’d never thought about an acne scar cure at the time, but as they grew up, I sure started to.

“Momma, what’s wrong with your face?” my oldest (then 9 years old) asked one day, pointing to a really embarassing outbreak I was having at the time. That’s when I decided it was time to find an acne scar treatment.

I realized that I’d been answering questions like “What’s wrong with your face?” since I was 8th grade and was called “pizza face” until my senior year. Now that I’m over 30, I shouldn’t be answering questions like that.

During my 20s, while my ex was still around, I’d made some good money as an accountant and spent a lot of that money trying every adult acne treatment I could buy. I must of tried hundreds of them and some actually worked.

Most of them worked to remove blackheads and pimples, but none of them addressed the acne scarring (craters I call them) left from my teenage years.

I set out on my quest to find an effective acne scar cure. That was three years ago.