I've always had horrendous acne and muskiness during puberty, and since beginning T it's a lot like starting puberty all over again but WORSE. I'm talking
acne so bad everybody assumed I had some insane skin disorder like full body exzema or psoriasis or keratosis pilaris (although everybody was just guessing on family history or Google and nobody was actually a damn doctor).
Acne so bad my first ever dermatologist was this ancient master who used a pair of goggles to zoom into my skin and just recommended me medication off the bat, because although it wasn't like I was a fungus shroom monster I was very young for the amount of acne I had. That was the only medication that ever worked and didn't INFLAME my acne!! Now as a trans man, it's not just as bad as before, but
I'm getting rock hard inflamed boils beneath the skin all along my chest and thighs that are extremely painful and I have no clue what to use that won't make me itchy or oily! Then,
there's my MUSK. I've been smelly for so long I don't even know what it means to smell good. I'm insanely oily, most products that contain oils to moisturize the skin actually make me sticky, and some extreme products I do use for stripping oil off my scalp per say cannot be used as body washes because they make me rubbery and as coarse as sandpaper. I just recently learnt
it's not normal to "sweat black" and that gunk is dead skin sloughing off my body because of all the OIL I have on me. I scrub til I basically become a raddish, with all sorts of salt scrubs and this scrubs.
I'm at an extreme loss for how to smell better because I've tried every name brand thing in America my family and friends, men and women, have all recommended me. All to no avail.
At times I'm so disgusted with myself and so itchy I shower over 5 times a day, it's quite obsessive I think. My odor isn't like I never shower, but it's like as soon as I get out the shower I speedran 100 push-ups while drying off. I have suboric dermatitis on my scalp which is basically EXTREME dander, that eats sweat and oil, which I am clearly in abundance of, and so I can basically make a snow machine service out of myself at all times of the year and look like I just slicked my hair back with mousse or grease or something. Some things I have found that work are buying a version of Degree deodorant called Sure from other countries, because the quality of Degree is different than the quality of Sure despite being literally the same company under different names in different countries. I need to constantly reapply however, but it works at least for a little bit!
Then my wonderful super weapon in the shower is a 18-In-1 Hemp Tea Tree Pure-Castile Soap. I'm not even kidding you it's the only thing that cleans my hair well and my scalp well after any sweaty day, it's a big orange soap bottle that's traditionally meant as like HAND soap. I also will use scalp scrubs actually to scrub the dander and hard crystal crud off my scalp and make it nice and refreshed for a bit, and then my bodywash is just a Swuave Citrus-Rush 3 in 1 at the moment because I've tried vegan I've tried other stuff and it stops working pretty quickly or doesn't work at all. That and I'll use a exfoliating like body scrub generally! The scrubs I will use any brand and I'm desperately searching for any working bodywash at this point.
So yeah, main point basically: What acne stuff or bodywash stuff do y'all use that actually works?
