Did my mom cause my oily skin?
Hi guys! For context, I am a 20 year old college student with extremely oily skin, and scarring in my face due to past pimple breakouts.
No one in my family really has oily skin or gets pimples like I do. They get bumps that just look like large mosquito bites, and are typically only blood and transparent-ish fluid 85% of the time.
My mom only ever taught me to wipe my face with warm water and a towel, so i thought that was all I needed in elementary school. When I got to middle school, my mom finally noticed how often I was breaking out in pimples, and got me the Neutrogena acne scrub with exfoliating beads. I was somewhere around 10-12 using this on my oily skin then she switched me to St. Ives till she heard all the drama about it in the mid 2010s.
After that, she had me try Cetaphil but I was struggling to use it every morning because I only ever really made time to brush my teeth and slap my hair in a ponytail. Then we went to CeraVe, and like I said I really don't make time for my skincare because I'm always super tired in the mornings.
I've started noticing how oily my skin gets in my sleep. Then how oily it gets after 1 hour after the few products I use in my morning "routine"(CeraVe acne control cleanser, vitamin c, and the PanOxyl moisturizer/sunscreen combo).
Overall my mom never believed me when I told her I thought it was the water messing up my skin, nor when I told her the exfoliating face scrub wasn't helping my skin.
The only things I can think of to cause me all the problem is either using the exfoliating beads on my skin way to early, or the water in the area I live in (southeast texas).
Is it too late to do something besides going to a dermatologist?