#acne help

We spend hundreds on expensive serums and "miracle" spot treatments, only to wake up with the same stubborn breakouts.

The hard truth: Your skin is a mirror of what’s happening inside your body. If you aren't addressing the internal inflammation and sebum balance, you're just painting over a leaky pipe. 🚿

The skin is actually the largest elimination organ of the body. The bowels, kidneys and lungs are also critical elimination organs.

When they are not functioning optimally, they are unable to eliminate waste and toxins effectively.

So what happens?

The body is very smart and still wants to eliminate toxins so it pushes them out through the skin, resulting in or amplifying skin various conditions. These include pimples, acne, dermatitis, psoriasis, rashes and even dandruff.

If you experience any skin conditions, it is important to assess whether underperforming bowels, kidneys or lungs are playing a role in this.

Diet plays a huge role in both causing these root issues and in naturally healing them (along with the right herbs!)

What can I do?

8.25.19

hi all! recently i’ve been trying new spot treatments to maintain my clear skin, and oh my god have they worked. this one is amazing. so, i’ve seen a lot of youtubers and influencers use the mario badescu drying lotion but that stuff costs $14 for a super tiny bottle. it didn’t really seem worth it to me because i’ve seen a lot of people have mixed reviews. anyway, i decided to google the ingredients and found that i already owned the two main ingredients, so i made my own haha. i’m sure this has been done before so i don’t take credit for this idea!

here are the ingredients for the spot treatment and a summary of my current skincare routine:

ingredients:

-benzoyl peroxide acne treatment cream (i used the kroger/ralph’s brand)

-calamine lotion

steps:

-i wash my face with a bar of dove sensitive skin soap and then pat it dry

-i then moisturize my skin with the cetaphil moisturizing cream (it comes in a tub)

-after that i apply a pea-sized amount of the benzoyl peroxide cream to my finger and dab it onto any blemishes

-next i put some calamine lotion onto a q-tip and then dot that onto the aforementioned spots and any red areas (example in picture)

-i sleep with the spot treatment on overnight and rinse it off when i wake up

We, especially as women, have been taught from a very young age that to be beautiful we have to look a certain way. That certain way never includes red inflamed pustules, or dry flakes of skin, or angry irritated skin. Feeling ugly and ashamed of your own skin is the worst feeling I have ever felt. Your whole existence is tainted by this feeling that you are ugly, your below other people, you feel let down by your own skin.

Having confidence when you have acne or any skin condition is hard. It's not easy to change your mindset and sometimes even change how other people treat you because of your skin.

Being confident regardless is a conscious decision you have to make. When you have those depressive thoughts and feelings surrounding your skin you have to recognise them, accept you're feeling that way, then rise above them. Carefully consider why you are wrong. How your skin does not define you. How you're a wonderful human being with many talents and a lot to give the world, that your skin will not stop you.

You have to keep living, and the more you live life, and enjoy life and succeed in life, the easier it is to rise above your skin problems getting you down.

Making Delicate