Let me start by saying that I have had KP since I was born. I had smooth skin for about the first 3 months of my life (I'm 18 now), and then my KP starting showing up. It was never noticable until around 7th grade. My arms, legs and face were never red, but the bumps on them were awful. And not only did I have KP I had/have folliculitis. 10th grade I became very depressed and started picking at bumps. The picking has left me with horrible scars, that I'm very ashamed of.

Well a few weeks ago I went back to my dermatologist and asked her what my next step was to get rid of my KP. After looking down the list of the medications I've taken and the lotions I used she said she had no idea what to do anymore. I've taken everything from Accutane, to 3 other type of pills, and probably 20 different lotions since I was in 10th grade. Which was 4 years ago. I looked at her almost in tears as she aplogized for not knowing what to do. The problem I've always had is everything I've used will work really well in the begininng, but then I get to this plateau where whatever I'm using just stops working. I was on accutane for 6 or 7 months and it worked great at first, but after the 5th month it just stopped working. The last lotion my derm prescribed for me was called Cerovel. It worked so well at first, but then same thing happened, and I got to the plateau where I wasn't seeing results.

I asked my derm what I can do now, and she said to use a buff puff and a really good oil free moisturizer. I was using Cocoa Butter and it was clogging my pores really badly, and making my kp 150% worse! As soon as she said an oil free moisturizer I automatically started feeling better, because that was on of the reason my kp wasn't going away. I asked her what the best lotion I could get was and she said Keri. Well that day I went and bought a huge bottle of it. I started applying it every night right before bed and was notcing that my skin was getting aot smoother, not so much the bumps bu my skin felt amazing. At that time I had stopped using the bugg puff like I normall would and was just rubbing it around not doing any scrubbing. Well last Saturday, after 3 weeks of applying Keri religiously, I decided it was time to do some heavy duty exfoliating. So for about 30 min. straight I scrubbed every where I had Kp, my arms, legs (front, back, and sides) face, butt and hips. I put the lotion on like normal and didn't feel any difference that night, but when I woke up my bumps on my arms were 95% better, the bumps on my legs were 80% better, my butt is 98% better and my hips are 75% better. I dont use Keri on my face, but after seeing what it has done for the rest of my body I might start. Now I just need a way to get rid of my scars for good and I'll be back to wearing tank tops and shorts again! I woke up that day amazed! I ran up to my mom's room in tears and had her feel my skin nd she looked at my like I had a new body on with the same face. Nothing i have ever tried has worked this well.

You can buy Keri at any store for cheap. My bottle is 15 oz. and was $7.99.
The actual ltion is got is called Keri Advanced Mositure Therapy, Enriched Oil Free Formula, Extra Dry Skin Lotion. This lotion is definitely something you should try before you go out and spend tons of money on different treatments! If you'd like to see pictures just send me an email at AllyMe88@hotmail.com . I only have one before pic but you can definitely tell the severity of my kp on my arms in it.

Yes, heavy-duty physical exfoliation can clear up even pretty severe KP. But it is a hell of a lot of work if you have a lot of surface area to treat.

Before I found AHA, I used microdermabrasion crystals and scrubbed my legs daily for a few weeks straight. It did get rid of all the bumps and most of the red dots. Some days I would use a loofah and just rub it really hard, and that would maintain the results as well.
Yeah, that was my routine, too. It took about 30 minutes a day to do both legs, and they got smoother and softer every time. By the end of it, they were soft as silk and I only had red dots on the most serious areas where the KP had been.
However, this routine quickly became a prison for me. I discovered that if I got lazy and didn't do it for a few days to a week, and then started up again? I got horrible ACNE all over both legs. It was horrendous. There is something that happens when you exfoliate that aggressively when the skin is at a particular stage in its refoliation. It somehow interrupts the process and it caused all my pores to become clogged and infected. If I continued the scrubbing over the next few days, the acne would get even worse. (This was serious, peeps. I mean there was a big pimple or a whitehead about every quarter inch, ALL over the legs. It looked unbelievable !!)

I spent hours just picking at it and staring at it, it was so shocking to look at.

Then gradually it would heal up and the smoothness and clear skin would return.

However, I realized that this method was just not practical. It is not something most people will be able to stick to for long term KP treatment. Investing half an hour into *anything* every day becomes a huge, tiring commitment, despite how well it works. I had my fill of it after about 2 months.

But, if you just have KP over a small area, like just on the backs of your arms, you could probably stick with this over the long haul and be happy with it. Like ACE showed us some while ago, she was able to commit to it and keep her KP away with aggressive physical exfoliation alone. But for those of us with KP all over the place, it is not a very user-friendly option.

It was through this experience that I learned that exfoliation was the key, though, and that if one can find a chemical exfoliant that will do all the work for you without causing irritation, that can be the answer.

I dont exfoliate every dayb though, only 2 times a week. And putting the Keri lotion on everynight before bed is what helps the KP, the exfoliating is for my legs where the hair gets trapped under the bump. The Keri lotion is the only thing that has really worked on my skin.

I could see why spending 30 min. a day would feel like a prison! I could never do that!

I didn't know that I had posted this twice! Here are the before and after pictures. The After picture is a little blurry, but you can see the change in redness. I also wish you could see how smooth my arms are now. The pink spots in the after picture are all where I have been picking. I hate that I do it, but it's a habit I cannot shake! The 3rd picture is from this summer when I was going to the tanning bed to tan over my scars. You can hardly even see my KP, and thats when I wasn't using the Keri lotion so I think next summer it will look even better because my arms will finaly be smooth!

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