How long does it take to treat skin problems and restore good skin texture?

I've helped dozens of friends around me adjust their skin texture, and I've stepped into the pitfalls of bad faces no less than ten times. I really can't give you a precise answer in time - for minor problems, you may notice obvious improvement in skin quality in 28 days. There are also people with severe hormone-prone faces and recurring acne that take a year or two to return to a healthy state.

You must have heard of the skin’s 28-day metabolic cycle, but that’s talking about healthy, youthful skin. If you have already built up your barrier to the point where you are red and hot, and even a mild facial cleanser cannot withstand it, your metabolic cycle will have been delayed to forty to fifty days or even longer. How can you still count according to the standard timetable? To put it bluntly, your skin is like a city wall on your face. If there are small gaps in your face, such as staying up late and getting a few pimples recently, and being in the sun for two days, it's a bit dull. If you adjust your work and rest, use some oil-controlling and brightening products, you may see that your face will be clear in more than half a month, and the pimples will disappear.

But if you are dealing with an old problem, the timeline will be stretched by several orders of magnitude. I once had a sister who used high-concentration acid in the summer. Her face turned red like Guan Gong when it was exposed to heat, and even the wind stung when she went out. At first, she was so anxious that she cried to me every day, wondering when she would be able to return to the good skin she had before. I asked her to stop all functional products, and even replace cleansers with non-foaming ones. She only uses repair essence and good sealing cream every day to maintain her skin. For more than a month, she saw almost no obvious changes. It took more than three months to dare to touch a little bit of mild VC products. It took almost half a year to return to the normal skin condition that did not turn red when the seasons changed. I also came into contact with a sister who had been using illegal quick-acting whitening products for three years. She developed hormone-dependent dermatitis. After almost two years of treatment, she completely got rid of acne breakouts and yellow water. Now her skin is very stable, and she has not acted like a monster even if she went to the north for half a month.

Many people think that skin care depends entirely on skin care products, but this is not true. You may be applying thousands of dollars of repair essence here, but you may be playing games all night long, drinking milk tea and eating cakes one cup after another. There was a male fan who used the barrier repair solution I gave him for half a year, but he still got red and itchy at every turn. After questioning for a long time, he said that he stayed up until two or three o'clock almost every day and drank three cans of iced Coke a day. Later, I forced him to change his work schedule and eat less sweets. After just over two months, he came to me and told me that his face finally stopped getting hot.

There are quite polarized opinions on this matter on the Internet. Some people say that skin resurfacing can be done in 28 days. In fact, it is only suitable for mild problems with healthy skin. If you still believe this if your skin has severe inflammation, it is easy to rush to the doctor and try illegal quick-acting products, which will make your face worse. Some people say that to tone your skin, you have to lie down completely and don’t use any functional products. That’s not necessary. When there is inflammation, use some soothing and anti-inflammatory ingredients. On the contrary, it can help the skin shorten the recovery cycle. There is no need to wait for it to repair itself.

In fact, you really don’t need to stare at the mirror every day and count the days, and don’t rush to change products just because you haven’t seen any changes in half a month. Your skin is becoming more stable to the touch, less prone to redness and itchiness, and the oil production is gradually becoming more even. It means you are moving in a good direction. Slower and safer, it is always more cost-effective than being too quick and repeatedly ruining your face, right?