Baby Acne

I would stop using soap altogether. When my newborn "broke out" - the nurse at the breastfeeding clinic suggested that I use unscented aqueous cream instead. So I'd rub it gently on her skin, and then put her in bath and rinse it off. The nice thing is you also don't need to pedantic about rinsing all the "soap" off because it's not soap, it's cream!! This worked really quickly for my baby and her skin cleared up in no time.
I was actually too embarrassed to even leave the house for a short while - my child looked like she had some terrible disease and it was too much for my fragile hormone ridden post-caesar ego to cope with!!

Baby acne can really suck.

There you have this beautiful baby - and they are covered in spots, and it is really distressing.

Nothing to do but wait it out - nothing works, and most treatments can only agravate it.

The spots do go away - some quickly ...some take a few months.

It goes as quickly as it came! Everybody laughed at me when Jude got it and recently I laughed at SIL when her baby got it. It's so hideous but it really goes away with no trace of it left

My daughter had bad acne when she was about the same age as your son. What helped was that every morning and evening I would wash her face with cooled boiled water and cotton wool. Using anything else made the acne worse so I would not recommend using soap products. Also after she has fed just give her face a little wipe.
Amelia's face looked better within a week, it hasn't disappeared completely yet, but it is a lot better.

My daughter had such bad acne it looked like ... well pretty bad.

My other two did not have a single blemish.

Poor Isabelle looked like a prebuscent teenager having a very bad month. I think she had pimples on her pimples at one point.

It eventually goes away. There is nothing you can do (or should do). As said it is a build up of your hormones (to add to any guilt you might already be feeling) being worked out of your child's system.

Isabelle was divinely pimply until she was about 6 - 8 weeks old.

<er, I cheated and photoshopped some of her baby pictures as I was a bit horrified.....>

Esmari it sounds like the newborn type of acne which is as a result of hormones from you.
It does clear, and you mustn't squeeze or do anything with it.
I wasnt aware of anything about creams, just used baby aqueous as always just the non scented ones.

My son almost 3 weeks suffer from baby acne in his face. Chin, cheeks, forehead, and on top of his head, and eyelids.

I just googled to see what i can do, and all the info says: do nothing. Just wash once a day with mild baby soap and warm water and pat dry. And do not use any lotion or oil on that areas.

The first mistake I made was the lotion.

Any other tips? I know it doesn't bother them, and goes away by itself.