Your Skin Wants You To EAT Your Antioxidants
“Dinner in the sunshine. Natural fiber place mats, retro tin camping plates, spinach soup, lotsa veggies, grilled fish. #healthyeats #eatarainbow” via @LauraAtVMV It’s not just what you stop eating — great skin comes from what you DO eat. The junk is gone, yay for you! Now what? First, let’s over-emphasize how thankful your skin is […]
Junk Food Is Junk For Your Skin
It’s called “junk” for good reason. Dump the junk. NO MORE JUNK FOOD. Get rid of it, don’t shop for it, don’t store it. Unless that isn’t clear yet: while you can lessen some less-than-healthy foods, junk food does your body, brain, and skin ZERO favors, period, and needs to not have a role in your life. At […]
Choose Hypoallergenic Over Natural: 30-Day Healthy Skin Challenge
Some things in nature can hurt you. Natural ingredients could be causing or worsening your acne, sensitive skin, psoriasis, eczema, or hyperpigmentations. While natural is WONDERFUL — eating natural, less processed foods so important for your health and using skin care with more natural, less processed ingredients can also be good (chemicals used in processing […]
Fix Your Skin With…Laundry Soap?: 30-Day Healthy Skin Challenge
Don’t let laundry become even more of a pain. Yup, even your laundry can affect your skin. Common culprits in laundry detergent that can contribute to chronic rashes, itching, acne and even hyperpigmentation include fragrance and preservatives. If your skin problems just don’t seem to be getting better, even after a proper diagnosis, careful prevention […]
Treat Your Makeup Like Skincare
Whatever’s on your skin can harm it or help it. If you think makeup has nothing to do with your skin’s health, remember that makeup stays on longer than most skincare. This means that makeup formulations have much, much more time to help or harm your skin. Remember: no amount of makeup can totally hide unhealthy skin. We all need […]
Get The Right Diagnosis
An accurate diagnosis is gold. And it’s not as simple as it might seem. Dermatology has one of the broadest ranges of possible diagnoses in medicine. What looks like acne could be keratosis pilaris (a condition of dry skin). And there are different types of acne and acne-like conditions the may require different treatments — pityrosporum […]
Your Skin Needs Sleep
How to get healthier skin in 30 days? Sleep more. Get 7 to 8 hours of sleep every night. Less than that is pro-inflammatory which worsens inflammatory skin conditions like acne, eczema, rosacea, psoriasis…and can even hasten aging! Adequate sleep also helps you stress less (which lessens inflammation) and eat more nutritionally (less inflammation…seeing a […]
STEROIDS, CORTICOSTEROIDS: Allergen or Not An Allergen?
Allergen (or, several are) In what is a particularly cruel irony, many of the steroids used to calm extreme itching and inflammation may cause them. Corticosteroids were the American Contact Dermatitis Society‘s “allergen of the year” in 2005. Specifically on the published allergen lists are: Budesonide, Clobetasol-17-propionate, Hydrocortisone-17-butyrate, Desoximethasone, Triancinolone, and Tixocortol-21-pivalate. Steroids can be extremely important […]
NEOMYCIN: Allergen or Not An Allergen?
Allergen. Not just an allergen, this popular topical antibiotic was the American Contact Dermatitis Society‘s “allergen of the year” in 2010. Watch for it in its pure form but also combined with other active ingredients in many common topical antibacterial creams and ointments well as some eye drops, root canal filings and some personal care […]