Don't know if it will work or not (I'm LONG past the age of problems with acne) But there is a growing movement of people who do not wash their face or use astringents, saying that these actually cause the skin to produce MORE oil. Instead, they cleanse the face with a combination of oils, I don't remember exactly but I do remember castor oil was one of them. I ran across the idea online, so you could probably do a search and find it