It’s a video of an actual doctor who’s talking about natural skin care, and how to prevent premature aging and acne through natural treatments.
I love this video because this doctor confirms everything that I talk about with natural skin care and healing acne. And I love it even more because he talks a lot about how important nutrition is.
I can’t stress enough how important food and diet is for your skin, your body, your mind, your soul ..everything, so it’s awesome to actually hear it confirmed from someone who has a medical degree.
If you want to get serious about having clear, glowing skin long term, then you will at some point need to look at the foods you’re consuming.
Over the past few weeks I’ve been spending a lot of time researching alternative nutritional medicine, and have discovered some really quite amazing information that I’ll be writing or videoing about on my blog over the next few weeks.
It just makes me realize how holistic everything really is. The food we eat, the water we drink, the place we live, activities we choose to do, television shows we watch, even the attitude we have towards life ..it’s all connected and it all mixes together and manifests into our health and well being.
When I sat down to talk about Proactiv and why it only sometimes works at clearing acne, I had no idea that it would turn into such a big video that I had to cut it into two parts.
This is an important video series to watch if you’re considering using Proactiv, or even if you’ve used it before and are wondering why it did or didn’t work.
When I was on the Waikiki beach a few months ago, I saw this guy hanging out with his friends on the shore. While every other guy was wearing boardies (thankfully not tiny speedos), this one guy in particular was wearing a t-shirt as well. And not a sun smart I’m-protecting-myself-from-UV kind of t-shirt, it was just an ordinary t-shirt. And I could see his acne creeping up from underneath the back of his shirt and up his neck.
Back acne, or ‘bacne’, can be just as embarrassing, if not MORE embarrassing than facial acne if it’s severe enough. Some people, (and it’s usually men) can even feel the need to cover it up all the time, just like this guy did in Waikiki.
Why do we get body acne?
We get body acne pretty much for the same reasons why we get facial acne. The strongest difference being back acne can often be induced by sweat. So wearing a backpack or doing a lot of sport that makes you sweaty can bring on a body acne breakout. An allergy to the laundry detergent you’re using to wash your clothes can also cause a body acne breakout.
I needed a change of scenery to work today so I packed my macbook into my backpack and headed off to a bookstore in downtown Toronto.
I love working in bookstores. Apart from the delicious smell of the brand new books (or is that the choc-chip cookies in the attached Starbucks cafe?), I love how if I need to research or look up any information while I’m here, I have instant access to a huge range of quality resources. And before you roll your eyes and tell me “Um, that’s what the Internet’s for …” (duh!), bookstores are great because you don’t have to weed through all the junk that comes with researching on the net. So there.
So of course, one of the first things I did when I arrived (apart from order a green tea and drool at those choc-chip cookies), was to browse the well being and skin care sections of the book store.
Call it fate, or whatever, but every book that I picked up popped straight open to the cleansing page. And every book screamed one key point at me - “Do not over wash your skin”. So unless these skin care experts have formed some kind of special ‘elite’ group and are getting together for herbal tea and note swapping, I guess there must be some truth to this point if they’re ALL saying it.
Why it’s really bad to over wash your face
It’s kind of simple. We were all born with great functioning skin. Skin that left alone does a really good job at looking after itself.
Take how I wash my skin as an example. I probably shouldn’t be publicly admitting this on my blog … but I hardly use soap or any other cleansing method on my body in the shower. That’s right, for years I’ve ditched the body cleanser and I only have a bar of [natural] soap in my shower to cleanse the dirty bits. You know, underarms, feet, and that other bodily part that I won’t mention. The rest I just let the water run over. So why is it that I can get away with completely skipping the cleansing of my arms, legs, stomach, shoulders, etc without any negative effects? Why is it that when I stopped cleansing those areas my skin actually improved. My skin is rarely dry (unless I have super hot showers or I’m in Vegas), and no, it doesn’t smell, and it looks clean and healthy. Continue reading →
I’ve always thought that honey was one of the ’safe’ alternative sweeteners that we could eat in place of refined sugar. Honey, being a natural product is packed full of vital vitamins and minerals and is thought to have a relatively low glycemic index. So essentially it’s a healthy food to eat, and even a healing ingredient to use in our skin care.
I keep organic honey at home to use as a sweetener. I sometimes use it on my oatmeal, on whole grain toast, or even in a mug of warm milk if I need something warm and comforting. And if I ever find a dessert or ice-cream that’s sweetened with honey [and not refined sugar], then I’ll always buy it, because these products are so hard to find.
So here I was, happily eating my honey thinking that it was doing my skin good, and preventing my acne rather than causing it. UNTIL I was doing some research on The Glycemic Index website last night, and discovered that you need to be careful with what type of honey you eat.
It’s true that all honey contains vitamins and minerals because it’s a natural product, but some types of honey have a very high glycemic index (GI). If you suffer from acne or are prone to getting breakouts, then you want to avoid all foods that have a high GI. So you will need to find a honey that has a low GI. Continue reading →
When I was on the Waikiki beach a few months ago, I saw this guy hanging out with his friends on the shore. While every other guy was wearing boardies (thankfully not tiny speedos), this one guy in particular was wearing a t-shirt as well. And not a sun smart I’m-protecting-myself-from-UV kind of t-shirt, it was just an ordinary t-shirt. And I could see his acne creeping up from underneath the back of his shirt and up his neck. 
I needed a change of scenery to work today so I packed my macbook into my backpack and headed off to a bookstore in downtown Toronto. 
It’s kind of simple. We were all born with great functioning skin. Skin that left alone does a really good job at looking after itself. 
I’ve always thought that honey was one of the ’safe’ alternative sweeteners that we could eat in place of refined sugar. Honey, being a natural product is packed full of vital vitamins and minerals and is thought to have a relatively low 
