For the blackheads, has anyone tried the following?

Castor Oil, up to 100% or you can blend at least 50% of castor and 50% olive oil together. Apply to your face for 20-30 minutes and then wash the face/back or wherever you need help. Do this 2-3 times a week or daily if they are that bad, it won't hurt to do it daily. Use a gentle soap, not a strong one like dial.

The castor will sink in and soften the blackheads, which then makes them easier to come out.

Be careful with those strips used to remove blackheads, they can cause scarring, but you won't see it for years to come (ask me how I know). Helps now, but in the future.... I woudn't use them anywhere but on my nose, if at all.

Do you have a coffee grinder? Or a stick blender with attachments? You can grind up oatmeal very fine, grind it up to where it is powdery fine and then keep going. Mix this with room temp yougurt and use this to clean your face with. Gently massage it into your skin in small circles, careful not to apply too much pressure. It will gently exfoliate your skin, which will help with the blackheads/acne. If you don't have a coffee grinder or stick blender with attachments, you can buy collodial oatmeal and use that. I've used the baby oats in a pinch also. I wouldn't use the ground oatmeal daily, at the very most, every other day, because it will exfoliate and you do not want to do that too often. Try twice a week and if no issues and you want to try more, then try 3 times a week. Everyone's skin is different and you know your skin, so go with what you know you can tolerate. Use plain unflavored yogurt and I buy the big container and scoop out into a dish, leave for an hour and it's at room temp.

If skin is over oily, consider this. You deep clean your skin. There is nothing left on it. But your skin does require something on it, so it sends a signal to the brain to produce more oil since there is nothing there.

So when you deep clean, make sure you replace what you take off. Now I'm not talking about bottleing sweat and old body oil and reusing it. But take a few drops or maybe even a drop of sweet almond oil or olive oil and massage it into your face, even if you think your skin is too oily. Because it might be too oily because of the way you clean it.

If you can get your hands on dead sea mud and it is affordable, this is a very good product to use as a facial, once a week or twice a week. Be prepared for it to make your skin worse before it makes it better. It draws the impurities/toxins out of the skin and acne is how it shows. But with regular use, it will clear up. I would say anything over $12 per pound of dead sea mud is too much.