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jesus kung fu magic said:

Dont put so much garbage in your system (i.e fast food)

Drink plenty of water

And keep regular in your cardio work.

Sleep at least 8 hours

 

 

Internal factors affect acne far more than external.

This is generally good advice, certainly it's good for you in many ways regardless of the effects on your skin. However,  though it is well established that certain foods can increase your chances of getting acne, there's no consistent pattern.  That is to say chocolate might cause a big break out for one person but have no effect on someone else who also suffers from acne, their trigger might be something else entirely and finding out what it is/they are is not always easy.

You are welcome to trial and error products recommended to you by your friends but if it's not working or you want a little better advice head to your doctor.  If you have a good doctor they will have experience (by proxy) with most of the products on the market and obviously some other stuff that's only available by prescription.  Acne is pretty much controllable medically speaking in the vast majority of people, just most never even both going to the doctor for it.

Having said all that the above is good advice and I would have no problem recommending that as the first step, and if you are lucky, the only one necessary