Started Hibiclens 3 Days Ago and I'm Panicking A Little
So I have folliculitis all along my beard area, not sure which kind. I'm thinking bacterial, but I could be wrong.
This picture shows the worst of it. The whiteheads used to be bigger, but they've faded a bit.
This first showed up while I was a month in to an Accutane course for cystic acne.
Either way, I made a post on this subreddit a couple days ago and was recommended to try Hibiclens.
I wash with Hibiclens day and night, and I leave it on my face for around a minute each time. At night, I also use 10% BP wash.
Since then, my skin has absolutely exploded with whiteheads. They always have a hair in the center, too, but it's not an ingrown or anything.
I haven't shaved or plucked any hair in two weeks, either, so I have no idea why everything is coming to a head now.
A lot of them pop up in clusters, and they sprout from these red inflamed blotches in my beard area.
With Hibiclens, I was thinking my face would look better before it got worse, but that hasn't been the case and it's stressing me out.
Any and all advice is appreciated. Thank you!