I've been waking up every day feeling like I was battered around in a car wreck the previous night. I was just thinking that this morning.. "what changed?" So I guess I can add that to the pile of side effects. I'm halfway through so just going to finish. I want my pretty pores.
After all the sacrifice to get there, be prepared to keep up with perhaps a somewhat more careful skin care routine, at least on your face.
As a guy this was largely out of my wheelhouse, and using "whatever" to wash my face always seemed like it was fine.
Definately not,
The wrong cleansers/soap will trigger your skin to stimulate sebaceous glands to generate more sebum, eventually making the glands, and therefore pores, enlarge. Counterintuitive as it seems, cleansing until my face was free of oil ended up with a much more oily face (nose mostly) later.
After a bunch of experimentation and consulting an actual female who really knows her skin care, I settled on this, and it made a tremendous difference.
The TLDR is that it's an "oil based cleanser", which I didn't know was a thing. The bottom line is that it cleans in a way that doesn't stimulate the sebaceous glands, so your pores remain closed, your face stays not-oily, and most importantly, you're not causing the glands to enlarge over time.
It seems pricey but you only use a drop to wash your entire face so it lasts quite a while. Highly recommended. The results are dramatically different from the generic "moisturizing wash" I had been using.
