In the attempt to rid your skin of redness, blemishes and excess oil, you have most likely over-dried it with harsh, aggressive products. Perhaps you have used Retin-A or strong rosacea prescriptions like metronidazole. All of these dry out and irritate the skin, causing it to redden and creating a coarse, dry surface. Sensing the dryness that has been imposed on it, your skin produces more oil to compensate. The more you try to treat it with foaming gels, oil-free products and strong exfoliants and medications, the more irritated and redder the skin becomes, and the thicker the dry surface. As a result the skin produces more and more oil to soothe itself. The oil can’t flow through the hard surface so it gets trapped underneath, where it hardens and clogs the pores. Bacteria thrive in this environment, and eventually cause blemishes and cysts.

Contrary to popular belief, oil-free products do not make skin less oily – in fact they make it even more oily. Oil-free products are completely water-based, which means that they quickly evaporate completely from your skin, drying out the surface and leaving it unprotected. Your skin only produces more of its natural oil to compensate. On the other hand, if you clean gently so as not to strip the skin, and then apply a treatment product with a very small amount of oil, it will remain on the skin to soothe it, and calm your skin’s overactive oil glands because they will no longer have any need to work overtime.

Simone France treats acne and redness not by drying the skin, but by gently cleaning and healing it. Thousands of women have used the Simone France system and immediately found the redness and acne gone.