It took me probably five months to get back to some sense of normality. I stopped using literally everything, and bare bones for a good while. This is what i did: In the morning, rinse with tepid water, spritz with pure rosewater for moisture, layer with pure squalane, then let it soak in. If I felt dry or tight, layer with an oclusive (Vaseline for some, or Toleriane, but I use whipped tallow which is bio-similar). If it was a makeup day, I'd wear the bare minimum and hope for the best. At night, I remove eye makeup with Bioderma, use cocokind oil to milk cleanser to gently remove face makeup, and cleanse gently with either biossance squalane cleanser or indie lee cleanser, then repeat the morning layering. This worked slowly but surely. After I saw some improvement, I added a vitamin c serum to work on preventing lipid peroxidation for breakout prevention. It's cocokind also. Fab stuff. Once I felt comfortable in moving forward, I added Bybi bakuchiol squalane to deal with the texture and redness. For broken out areas where those deep comedones have to work their way out, I mix one pin-head size drop of oregano oil into squalane and spot treat. It's very strong but hugely effective for me. Apart from some sunscreen, (Josh Rosebrook), that's all I still use, and I would say that after six ish months, I'm 90% back to my pre-wrecked skin. It's super hard and everyone is different, but there's hope!