Natural Acne Treatment And Skin Care

This video may create a bit of a discussion, and it already has in YouTube because a lot of you may disagree with me. And that’s okay, that’s what my blog is all about - I’m not always right! I can only give you what my personal experiences have been and what I’ve researched so I love it when other personal experiences come through in the comments.

I’ve never had any luck with using bar soap on my face, no matter what brand it is and how natural it is. There’s something about what they use to make it into a bar that strips the natural oils off my face and leaves it dry. I’m happy to be proved wrong though, I’d love to try something that actually doesn’t do that. Although to be honest, I’d prefer to find a natural cleanser in a bottle, simply because it’s easier to travel with and carry around.

Do you use a bar soap cleanser? Let us know about it! Write a comment in the box below.

I got suckered into buying this terrible product at the Mind Body Spirit Festival on the weekend. I guess it serves me right for believing something so painless would work by actually removing the hair from the root. Lesson learned - there is no natural and painless way to remove hairs from the root.

Smooooth Legs hooked me in by their very clever demonstration. As I walked passed the stall I heard them explaining to women how their system removes hairs from the root so it’ll grow back slower and finer. And as I watched a demonstration I got hypnotized into trying it myself.

Luckily that day I was wearing jeans because my legs were, um, a little bit unkempt! So I actually had some hair to trial the product on. They gave me a VERY impressive demonstration which involved exfoliating my leg quite vigorously in a circular motion with what looks a lot like sandpaper. I was then told that you have to moisturize and they recommended to moisturize with their own product which of course they tried to sell me as well.

The part of my leg they exfoliated actually felt amazingly smooth so that sold me straight away. At that point I totally believed the product worked, and that my hair had been magically and painlessly pulled out from the root. This was enough to convince me to buy the product. Although I didn’t buy the moisturizer because it’s not natural.

But of course it was all too good to be true. I knew by that afternoon that the product was scammy as the patch they’d “removed my hair” from started to get prickly. If they’d actually removed my hair then it would take a couple of weeks to get to that prickly stage. Still I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt so I gave it a good go at home, but the results were even worse. Not only did I find it difficult to achieve that same smoothness that I experienced during the demonstration, but I found it a lot of work to remove all of my hair. In fact, I gave up not long after I’d started on the second leg. Honestly, shaving is a lot easier and quicker.

And then for the next couple of days my skin was very dry and irritated. I had to use a lot more moisturizer than usual and I even got a bit of an itchy rash in the areas that I’d used the product. It’s so not worth it.

I would definitely not recommend this product to anyone. I’m a bit sad it doesn’t work because it seemed like a great option. Even if it did just cut the hairs off like shaving does, I would have been happy to continue using it (because that would mean I could use it while watching a DVD), but the skin irritation just isn’t worth it.

So if you’re walking passed one of these Smooooth Legs stalls, don’t get suckered into it. Unless you want something that can “buff off” a few stray hairs in an emergency situation.

I was in the park the other day having fun with a digital video camera a friend has very kindly lent to me, and of course I had to record a video for High on Health so here it is. Enjoy the background, a couple of boats and a skateboarder go past!

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments about this video.

Congratulations to Joel who is the winner of the Dr Neal’s Acne Bootcamp products!

We couldn’t go past Joel’s amazing video entry which beautifully expressed his personal story and his strong determination to heal his skin. Check the video out if you haven’t seen it already -

I’d also like to give a special mention to Florentine’s video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIknsScMvzI, Kevin’s word document and to Henrieta’s and Chris’s text submissions. But REALLY I’d like to thank you all because each and every submission was of a very high standard and it makes me sad that I can’t offer this opportunity to each and every one of you.

I’ll make sure that Joel keeps us updated on his progress and lets all of us know how his treatment with Dr Neal is going.

I’ve been working on compiling a recipe center for my clear skin coaching program and just out of habit wrote down “Loving Preparation” instead of the usual “Method” that most people use. Which got me thinking why I decided to use the term loving preparation in the first place.

In my nutritional medicine studies I learned how important it is to be in a happy mood and positive frame of mind when you’re cooking. Because believe or not, your energy does go into the cooking. So if you cook from the heart and prepare food with love, then you’ll definitely be creating a better and much more enjoyable meal. And it goes both ways - if you hate the fact that you’re cooking, don’t like what you’re doing, or are in a cranky mood then your negative energy will come out in the food too.

This is really trippy hippy stuff I know, but there is definitely a lot of truth to it. I even dug up my old nutritional medicine text book so I had some kind of professionalism behind this blog post.

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