Many women, even those who are super healthy and have an immaculately clean diet, often don’t realise the amount of rubbish they’re subjecting their skin to on a daily basis! According to the Environmental Working Group, women use an average of 12 personal care products a day, which means inflicting up to 186 unique ingredients on your body on a daily basis! 10 reasons you should break up with your toxic beauty productsOnce upon a time the world used to think that the skin was an impenetrable ...
Acne
Gentle ways to support + cleanse your liver for acne
This article looks at the ways you can cleanse your liver for acne healing including supplement and diet advice to gently support your liver. The liver is the target for nearly every toxin, chemical and contaminant that we come into contact with during the course of our busy lives and when stressed, our liver may show signs of toxic build-up through the skin. The body may try to release stored toxins by producing excess sebum and pushing it out through pores where it clogs and can cause ...
The importance of a healthy liver for acne healing
This article looks at the important of a healthy liver for acne healing including tips to help boost your liver function for less spots and healthier skin. After your heart, your liver is the most important organ – it has so many important jobs to do such as detoxification, metabolism and filtering, regulating and storing blood. It’s easy to assume that an unhealthy liver is only a concern for alcoholics, but stress, poor diet and over-medication are really common in this day and age and all ...
Face mapping for acne: what’s your skin telling you?
This blog post talks about the ancient technique of face mapping for acne. Do you suffer with persistent blemishes in the same place month after month? We’ve all been told that the once-a-month outbreaks on our chin are down to hormones but did you know that it is said that different areas of your face are connected to other areas of your body? This article looks at the traditional Chinese practice of face mapping for acne. Face mapping for acne: what’s your skin telling you? Face ...
Oleic vs Linoleic: The best base oils for acne prone skin
When switching to a greener beauty regime, the one thing that may terrify you more than anything else is the idea of oil cleansing – especially if you suffer with oily, acne-prone skin. It’s ok! I’ve been there too. I used to run in the opposite direction at just a mention of the word oil! I’d avoid oil-based products at all costs, opting for oil-free cleansers and moisturisers (how can you even have an oil-free moisturiser…it doesn’t even make sense!!) that would strip my skin and leave it ...
Oil Cleansing Method for acne prone skin
A few years ago, if you told me to treat my skin with the oil cleansing method I would have laughed in your face! Oils?! On my skin?! No. Way. I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who would react like that! However, I’m now a changed woman and a total advocate for the use of oils in skincare. In fact. It’s pretty much all I use on my skin! When we were teens we grew up with the idea that oil was the cause of our bad skin and doctors would throw anything from anti-bacterial face washes and ...
5 skin care essentials to clear acne & fade scars
This article looks at some of my top skin care essentials to clear acne and fade scars. If you want to know the best scientifically proven ingredients to fight acne then read on! Having struggled with acne for over 13 years, I’ve learnt that the best skin care routine for acne doesn’t involve lots of harsh chemicals that burn and further irritate the skin. Instead, a calming routine that consists of natural products packed full of skin healing actives is by far the most effective way to treat ...
The 4 foods that can cause acne
If you’ve ever been to the doctors about a persistent skin condition, whether it be acne, eczema or dermatitis, you’ll probably have been told that “your diet has nothing to do with skin issues”. Right? During the time that my skin was at its worst, I was left devastated after a visit to the doctors. Halfway through my appointment, I made a casual comment about how my hormones must be really out of whack because even with my immaculate wholefood diet, my skin was still struggling with constant ...
Where to buy a reliable Hair Mineral Analysis Test
If you’re interested in purchasing a reliable Hair Mineral Analysis test, then it’s important that you use a company or practitioner that test their samples using either the labs Trace Elements or Analytical Research Labs as they don’t screw around with your hair prior to testing it (many labs wash the hair before testing which can alter results). Both Trace Elements and Analytical Research Labs have distributors around that world, or distributors that will ship worldwide so it’s relatively ...
LED treatment: the benefits of blue light therapy for acne
This article looks at the benefits of blue light therapy for acne and explains how LED acne treatment can be an effective way of clearing acne and reducing inflammation. Blue light therapy for acne: what is it?Light therapy is a clinically proven, effective, natural treatment for acne and scarring – blue light kills the bacteria that cause acne. How LED light therapy attacks acne is pretty clever, it literally causes P.acnes to destroy itself! That’s right, unlike other antibacterial or ...