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Skin Care Routine
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items Throughout my teenage years I’ve struggled with acne-prone skin. And even adulthood I still have issues with acne. A lot of it can now stem from either stress or hormone in-balance. I've learned to see what works best for my skin over so many years. ...
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Habits That Benefit your Skin
Skin Care Products
Products to Stay away From
Habits That Benefit your Skin
It isn’t always about the products you use but the daily habits that could contribute to acne
We are constantly touching surfaces that are used by people everyday, and those germs can transfer to your phone screen since we are using our phones everyday. It also helps to keep up with either using hand sanitizer or washing hands after being in ...
Cleaning your Phone is Important
Another easy transfer of germs is pillowcases. I’ve made sure I’m keeping up with the habit of washing my pillow cases every week. It’s helped target acne that I had on the sides of my face since I sleep on my side. Another good tip is trying to slee...
Frequent washes with your Pillowcases.
I’m sure this one is one we are all aware of, but as I’m getting older it’s such a noticeable difference now, between when I’m drinking water intake for the day, vs when I’m not. My face looks so much more hydrated, my pores are smaller, and the circ...
Water: How much should you drink every day?
Have you ever ate something the night prior that’s heavy in dairy, and wake up the next day with new pimples forming? I went to a place that does facials who mentioned how dairy consumption could be link to acne. I never considered the correlation, b...
Dairy Intake and Acne Vulgaris: A Systematic Review ...
Exfoliating your skin is so important as it can help unclog your pores. I find it better to exfoliate at night before bed. If you exfoliate in the morning, before you go to work or go out to a public place, I feel it would make no sense as your more ...
When Should You Exfoliate: Morning or Night?
Skin Care Products
You don’t need a heavy step routine to help with keeping your skin looking good. I’ve listed some really good products that I’ve used that work well.
I use this mostly for clearing up acne scars and my pores. Not a huge difference with minimizing my pores, but it really helps with the acne scars.
The Ordinary Niacinamide 10% + Zinc 1%
Using retinol is a non-negotiable once you hit your mid-20s. As we age our body makes less collagen. I didn’t realize how important using a retinol is. I like using more towards my neck and on my forehead. I only use the retinol at night time before ...
Anti-Aging Moderate Strength Retinol 0.5% in Squalane Serum
I’ve learned less is more. A lot of products targeted toward acne prone skin seem to easily break me out and I always feel like a lot of these brands agenda is to keep you using the product which is why I never feel a lot of acne washes never work fo...
Dove Beauty Bar Soap Antibacterial Care 2 Count For ...
I’m not too big of a fan of face masks just because of my previous experiences with them. I recently received these as a gift from a family member, and I’m pretty impressed. In the past I’ve always had issues with masks causing acne breakouts but I d...
Cryo + Soothing Hydrogel Sheet Mask - Rael
Products to Stay away From
I started noticing a difference in the products I stopped using or products I’ve tried where I’ve had a bad reaction to.
This is one I’ve decided to step back from recently. I feel like it’s one of those skin products that you keep having to use, and buy more of to see a difference, but there’s always a few blemishes here and there that never clear up over time even wi...
CeraVe
I started noticing all the weird ingredients that they have in spf brands. I’ve noticed a big difference with switching to a better brand that has less ingredients. I also don’t like the spray on spfs because it can be difficult to know how much to a...
The trouble with ingredients in sunscreen | EWG's Guide to ...
I really wanted to like this one, but I did not experience a good reaction :( . It was way too harsh on my skin, and caused it to purge bad. Maybe if I kept using it I’d see results, but wasn’t worth the risk to me.
Acne Banishing Body Spray 2% Salicylic Acid | PanOxyl US
I’m not a fan of mineral spf. This was also something I had a bad reaction to. Skin instantly became irritated when I used this and formed a painful acne on my jawlines/chin area. Like I said, all skin is different , but I’ve decided to not use miner...
Mineral Broad Spectrum Sunscreen for Face & Body