WHAT TO DO IF YOUR SKINCARE ISN'T WORKING: #skinherball
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I actually understand what's like to live in Nigeria alongside the weather inconsistency mixed with stress and these have a very damaging effect on your health and skin.
1. Weather change, sweats, stress, over exfoliating, over hydrating, and on top of all these,
You make wrong diet choices. That's unfair and that's one reason why your acnes, eczema, whiteheads, hyperpigmentation, uneven skin tone, etc, has and will refuse to depart from your skin.
2. You should take a skin fast sometimes.
Skin fast is simply staying away from all that rigorous Skincare activity for sometime and letting your skin heal. Your skin needs to breathe and you might be choking it with your enthusiastic activities. Simply stick to
Only the basics of Skincare routines, which is, cleanser, moisturizer and sunscreen.
If you have dry skin, moisturizer and sunscreen are most important.
3. You should apply a lot of sunscreen, not at once but a lot at the end of the day.
Apply every two to five hours.
But one little hindrance is that most sunscreen leave a white cast on your face and that alone might kill your motivation in applying them because honestly those white cast aren't nice. So i recommend @cerave's hydrating mineral sunscreen.
It's light weight, doesn't feel greasy, and contains niacinamide which reduces inflammation, which may help ease redness from eczema, acne, and other inflammatory skin conditions. Minimizes pore appearance too.
4. Stop your treatments, stop Exfoliation, retinols, scrubs, skin glowing products. Stop all the over hauling, and give ur skin sometime. Allow it focus on healing.
5. Reduce cleansing. Cleanse at least once daily and at most twice.
If your skin is sensitive
Especially, you shouldn't joke with this thread. Although it addresses all skin types going through several conditions.
Give it just two weeks, and you will see the difference. I hope you stay safe and I hope you have fun as well.
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The ordinary glycolic acid toning solution has got 7% glycolic acid.
Now the brand says it's a toner, and should be used once daily.
That's dangerous because there's nothing toning in the toner. You're just going to over exfoliate your skin and it's trouble.
Now I think Neutrogena has got a facial scrub as well. People just go to the shelf and assume that because the reputable brand writes FACIAL on it, so it's ideal to use on the face. That also wrong and it's a lie.
It's absolutely hypocrisy if you undermine organic skincare vendors by saying because no proper public orientation about how their products are formulated, they become fake but still go ahead to buy a facial scrub from Neutrogena, because they're popular and it's imported.
You're probably a new follower if you still use scrubs on your face as an Exfoliant.
You probably assume your dead skin cells are like a mask covering your face, and you need to scrub it off.
In this place, we Exfoliate chemically not with scrubs.
Chemical Exfoliation is superb because it not only targets our dead skin cells, they also help improve skin concerns. You can't treat acne by using a scrub. That's a big scam, but you can treat acne by Exfoliating with a BHA or an AHA.
So now, chemical exfoliants are categorized into two.
1. AHA: alpha hydroxy acids; they include Glycolic acid or mandelic acid or lactic acid. These are the most common in skincare.
Glycolic acid has tiny molecules and penetrates the skin deeper. And can help improve
1. If your Cleanser contains alcohol denat or isopropyl alcohol, it's drying and not good for your skin.
2. Witch hazel or anything astringent related aren't good for your skin due to their stripping effects.
3. Cleanse for 60sec.
4. If you've got inflammation concerns, cleanse for less time, maybe 30 secs, and do it only once daily at night. You can wash your face with just clean water when you wake up in the morning.
5. Cleanse properly and focus on the areas around your nose.
6. If you've got oily skin, going for a stripping Cleanser which mostly contains drying alcohols like the ones mentioned above will only worsen your oily skin — puts a strain on your sebaceous glands.
Stick to gentle foaming or lotion or gel cleansers.
Skincare ingredients you can use or avoid when pregnant✨ [share to someone]
1. Retinol/Retinoids are superior ingredients in skincare and should be treated with respect at all times. They're vitamin A derivatives and should be avoided during pregnancy or while nursing.
2. Benzoyl peroxide is an excellent ingredient to combat pimples that appear "ear and dear" and should be great to use even when pregnant, but stick to 5% or less, so that junior can continue to kick harder and score goals.
3. Don't use skin brighteners that contain hydroquinone. This is common. Very common. Pregnant/nursing mom's bleaching their skin with steroids and high doses of hydroquinone because they want to look like Kim Kardashian.
Ingredients/products I really trust can help your inflammed pimples:
1. Benzoyl peroxide, sulfur, differin/adapalene gel
2. Lots of Hydration & anti-inflammatory: snail mucin, niacinamide.
3. Exfoliation: mandelic acid serums.
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Relating products:
The @cerave 4% benzoyl peroxide cream cleanser. Great for people with (nodules, pastules, cysts) I suggest you alternate with a gentle cleanser.
A benzoyl peroxide spot treatment of 5% will also do your acnes good.
For hormonal acne or any inflammed acnes, sulfur is more efficient and gentler than benzoyl peroxide as benzoyl can be drying for most people. Sulfur works by sucking out excess sebum. Not to look far, @Viviglowskin sulfur clay mask is affordable and will do a lot on your skin.