thank you
@_number8_ I had bad acne until I was 37. Finally solved it in two weeks—using the oil cleansing method (OCM).
Basically, stop using soap and acne creams, and wash with a mix of oil. The most important is castor oil, as it’s the one that cleans and disinfects. Most people need between 5 and 15% castor oil in their mix, and then complete with any non-comedogenic neutral oil. Almond (if not allergic to nuts), grapeseed and argan are good ones. Any one in fine but feel free to mix! 1/5
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i will look into that, thanks. sounds crazy, but skin care products are also crazy. i am glad it helped you.
@addictedtochaos Do know that lots of sites make it sound super complicated. Don’t get me wrong—the whole hot towel ritual can be nice! I just haven’t found it necessary in any way. Castor oil plus another one, use that to wash (and it works great taking off makeup too, even on the eyes!), wipe off, hydrate. Boom, done! The rest is cherries on top.
If you try it, I hope it works as well for you as it did to me. I honestly thought I’d have acne until I died.
castor oil as in rapeseed oil? like, cooking oil?
@addictedtochaos To add on to that: I tend to go with grape seed oil and buy it at the grocery store! If it’s safe enough to ingest, then it’s safe for my skin!
And it’s much, much cheaper than “cosmetic” oil.
@addictedtochaos Castor oil as the thing people used to take for constipation 😆
I buy mine at the pharmacy. A tiny bottle lasts forever.
There’s nothing wrong with mixing! Any food grade oil will work (cosmetic too but it will be pricier!).
I’d start with a 10% castor mix, try it for a week (so your skin can adapt), then adjust the mix accordingly until you figure out what works for you. More castor oil dries your skin more. Skin still oily? Add castor oil. Too dry? Put in less.
For example, I use 5% in winter and 7,5 in summer. I use a perm bottle, which makes dosing and mixing easy, but you do you. 2/5
Just wash your face using your oil mix, massage it to really get all the first out, then wipe off with a wrung washcloth. Then apply 2-3 drops of pure oil (not castor oil!) to keep your skin hydrated. It will feel odd at first because we expect our skin is supposed to be completely dry, but that’s wrong! Don’t skip this hydration step! You may not want to do it right before bed so your skin has time to absorb it (otherwise, some of it will get into your pillowcase—it will wash off but some 3/5
funny thing is, if you’re healthy, the skin hydrates itself.
@addictedtochaos Technically yes. Sadly, that’s not ways the case, especially with acne-prone skin. The oil mix cleans by replacing dirty oil with clean oils. Then the hydrating oil works by keeping your skin not to produce so much of it. In my experience, acne products just strip the skin of any sort of hydration, which just makes the problem worse, as oil production goes in overdrive.
Now that I know what properly hydrated skin feels like, I know mine has always been oily or stripped.
I had coconut opil, so i plastrd my face, and had it on my face for like 25 minutes, the i had the wet cloth.
i dont have the feeling that it really peeled everything magiacalloy from my skin, but what surprised me, was that my skin actually DID felt good afterwards and now in the morning. i think the trick is apllying it, AND removing it carefully again; normally, you don’t do that, you put creme on your skin, and it stays there.
how many times a day do you do that?
find it off-putting!). You may pat (not rub) any excess off if need be. You’ll figure out the exact proportion that works for you.
You should do this twice a day. Don’t use any other skin products (makeup is fine). After a little while, you’ll even feel the gritty stuff coming out of your pores! It feels weird but satisfying!
If you look up the OCM, you’ll see ppl recommending a whole hot misting routine but I never found it made any difference. Wash with oil mix, wipe off, hydrate. 4/5
Some also say to start with up to 30% castor oil but that is whack! Love yourself, don’t do that! A 30% mix will leave your skin absolutely parched!
Castor oil also is great for healing. I too was a picker and everything healed much, much faster once I started using the OCM.
Really, it changed my life, which is why I’m so enthusiastic about it. Feel free to ask any question! (5/5)
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i read castrol oil and was like no way
Most likely vitamin or mineral deficency.
vitamins are a tricky thing.
vitamin d, vitamin c, and iron will not work without copper. zink works against copper. magnesium and calcium only work together.
its a complex topic. order a blood test in a laboratory.
water with to high calcium hydrogencarbonate dryes out your skin, it cracks, bacteria can enter. so, if you are kinda sick, diabetic, drink to much, are eating junk, you also get vulnerable to all sorts of mites, normaly, your skin can defend itself against them, thats why people can live in all sorts of filthy condotions, and still look healthy.
but i say some kind of deficency.
eat lots of kiwis, get a sunburn ( i am serious) in the face, eat protein and vegtbales and fat. try some supplements.
if you are deficient, and take what you need, your face will clear up 40 % IN HOURS, i shit you not. youll feel much better in 2-4 days, its that fast.
but its very difficult to found out what you lack, and then its even more difficult to choose and take the vitamins and minerals in such a way they dont fight each other.
very difficult
Do you sleep on your front? Or maybe have your face buried in a pillow all night? That was the cause for me. I covered my pillow with a fresh T-shirt every night and got clear.
yes yes yes that’s brilliant, i did that a while ago but i used the same t-shirt daily, stupidly. thank you!!
you can also have your clean pillow, and have lots of drying cloths (the cloth you dry your hair with, i forgot the name). you put eachj night a clean cloth where your face is.
another thing: wash your drying cloths at 60 degrees celcius, thats 140 fahrenheit. this will kill almost all bacteria. (pasteuer is a french dude who discovered this, hece pasteurization at 140 fahrenheit)
it is also a good idea to wash everything else with this temp setting once in a while.
but i still put my money on deficency. stop eating mc donalds. cook your own food.
Is the word you’re looking for “towel”?
yes, damn, I lost it somehow, I am shocked. it’s such an easy word. sorry, i am not a native.
No wörries, just thought you were missing it, so I offered. Haha.
Buy pillow cases and put on a new pillow case each night.
Buying extra sets of bed linen is easiest the best money I have spent.
When I was younger, I’d get away with changing less often and rushing the full bed linen through in a day.
Now, I can take a few days to do that laundry, and have fresh bedding whenever I want.
At least 2 sets of bed linen is a fantastic investment
It could be a hormonal issue depending on your diet.
A ketogenic diet keeps the hormone insulin in check, which can have a wide impact all over the body. Some people do report improvement in skin conditions. It may not fix your issue but if your out of other options you can try it for 3 months.
i found this out at age 38. grain allergy. they even put me on betablockers. anxiety and depression vanished, along side countlesss of itty bitty health issues. had to do it, because bloating, farting, cramps were getting worse and worse. migraines as well vanished. high blood pressure vanished, i head heart arrythmia all my life, completely gone now.
Do you drink? This happens to my wife when she drinks alcohol
Looks very dry in the picture. Not drinking enough water?
colleague had something similar from gluten allergy
Had cystic acne most of my life. Got diagnosed with celiac’s disease, cut gluten out of my diet, and the acne pretty much stopped. Not saying that’s it’s the solution here, but my dermatologist had said years earlier that I likely had some other undiscovered, underlying issue. There are a lot of allergies and immune disorders that may be connected.
yeah, it pisses of your stomach, it wont take in the nutrients anymore, like, the more complex ones. i had to stop eating grains. change me a great deal for the better. and i went back to eat bread sometimes, but WAY less, like 2 times in a week, no noodles or anything with flour.
Too much oil, alcohol, stress, hygiene, peanut butter
Take you pick
I think some people just get acne. I’m 46 and still get pimples on the regular, though not nearly as bad as when I was a kid.
If the t-shirt thing worked, just wash your pillowcase more often.
Better yet, put a fresh towel on top of the pillow every night. Much easier and faster.
