<human>: Can you give me a shortened version of the text?

So I've always battled acne, and it got to the point where my skin-care regimen was pretty time consuming:  Morning and Night:  Wash with benzol-peroxide soap, exfoliate with an acne pad, leave on a salicyllic-acid-based moisturizer in the morning, leave on benzol-peroxide 5% gel in the night.  It worked all right--the occasional pimple here and there.
A friend told me that I was overdoing it, that I was creating the problems I was trying to fix--that the benzol peroxide may be killing bacteria, but also drying out my face, which caused my skin to produce more oil.  She told me to stop all that, and maybe I'd break out, but then I'd clear up again, after my skin got used to not being dried out every day.

So I decided to experiment, and stopped doing all that crap--washing only with an apricot scrub.  For two weeks, my skin was doing fine.  Great, in fact--completely clear--better than before.
And then: BREAKOUT.  It's geting worse and worse each day now, big, red ones spreading around my mouth.  It's crippling my self-confidence and driving me crazy.  My instincts tell me to go back to the routinized treatment.  I mean I guess I was expecting a breakout?  I just need to know if I'm on the right track, or if this is crazy, or just what your viewpoints are.
<bot>: I went off of Benzol Peroxide--and any other skin-drying treatment, and after a two week bliss period I'm massively breaking out.  Go back or stay the course?