How long does it take to get better after treating skin problems

There is really no unified answer to this question. Among the friends I have come into contact with in the past few years who have skin problems, there are those whose red and swollen acne broke out after eating heavy oils and spicy food and took proper care in three days. There are also those who spent six or seven years on hormone facial conditioning for a year before they dared to use ordinary skin care products normally. The recovery time span can be dozens of times different.

Many people have heard the saying that the skin has a 28-day metabolic cycle, and assume that all problems can be solved within one cycle. Some people even think that if there is no effect for more than a week, it means they are using the wrong thing. In fact, this is really an oversimplification of skin problems. There was a girl who came to me in 1998. She used Internet celebrity quick-acting whitening creams blindly and followed the trend of high-concentration acid. She made the barrier as red as a ripe peach as soon as she entered the air-conditioned room. She also had itchy rashes from time to time. She was very anxious at first. , they said online that it takes 28 days to build up the barrier, but on the 22nd day, I still got red when I was hot. I thought that the repair cream I was using was useless, so I turned around and tried several other internet celebrity products. Instead, it made my face even worse, and it hurt even if I went out to blow in the wind. Later, she finally calmed down and kept only a mild amino acid cleanser + repair cream + hard sunscreen, and stopped using any other functional products. She even dared to apply a regular medical dressing once a week. It took more than three months for the redness to disappear. It is now almost half a year before she dares to occasionally use a whitening essence on a small scale to try and make mistakes.

Of course, not all problems have to wait so long. A while ago, I was busy traveling during the change of seasons and forgot to bring facial cream. My face was so dry that it was red and stinging. I put on a soothing mask and a thick layer of repair cream when I got home in the evening. Most of it was relieved the next day, and it was all gone in three days. This is just a small problem caused by temporary dehydration and irritation of the epidermis, which cannot wait for the 28-day metabolic cycle.

Nowadays, two schools of thought on the Internet are quarreling fiercely. One school says that conditioning must be efficient. If you don’t see results within a week, you have paid the IQ tax. The other school says that slow maintenance is the truth, and it must be maintained for more than half a year before it can truly be treated well. In fact, both of these are a bit extreme. If you have a temporary aunt's acne and it doesn't go away after a week of proper care, then there must be something wrong. Either you drink iced milk tea and eat desserts every day without controlling your mouth, or you are using inappropriate products. But if you have suffered from cystic acne repeatedly for three or four years, or have suffered from it, I had congenitally sensitive skin that had been damaged for several years. I forced myself to get better in a month or two. Instead, I was prone to sudden illness and seeking medical treatment. I encountered those quick-acting products with added hormones. At that time, the redness faded and the acne disappeared after two or three days of use. After I stopped, the acne became worse than before. That is really not worth the loss.

In fact, skin conditioning is the same as caring for wounds. Make a small shallow cut on your hand, put a band-aid on it, and it will heal in two or three days. If the injury is so deep that you can see the bones, it will take two or three months to remove the plaster, and it will take a long time to recover? The same goes for skin. Problems that only damage the epidermis will naturally heal quickly. If the problem has already damaged the dermis, or even formed a stubborn memory of inflammation, then naturally you need to give it enough time to recover slowly. There is really no need to count the days in front of the mirror every day. Find the right formal care or treatment methods, and don’t follow the trend blindly. The rest will be healed faster in time.