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[candyshop1]

After coming out of the hot seal salt bath for 30 mins......are you supposed to take a cold shower to close up the pores?........also is it okay if you use 15 oz of sea salt rather than 30 oz?I've been using 15 oz&took a sip of the water and its pretty salty tasting...?

[anna123]

Wow, I just did this for the first time last night and i woke up this morning and my back looks like a different person's! Thank you a million times for this info! It is a little bit expensive for me, but soo worth it.
1 question... the only sea salt i found in my house way "iodized".. is that ok? Thanks!

[jokerj]

so, i have some questions regarding this sea salt method..

right now i'm using ACNEFREE's 3-step process
- 2.8% BP cleanser
- SD alcohol based toner
- 3.7% BP cream
on a daily basis, followed up by a 2.2% SA moisturizer
every two days or so, i also shave using Neutrogena For Men's acne fighting shaving cream

if i start taking a salt bath a day, should i get rid of any of the above processes, or should i keep them all?

also, salt dries out your skin, correct? i hate having dry, itchy, flaky skin, which is why i use the SA moisturizer. is that bad? my mom tells me that dry skin actually helps prevent acne, but i don't think i could live with skin that dry.

any comments would be much appreciated, thanks

no one really gave definitive answers ont his
i have the most sensitive skin int he world, its flares up into a big red flaky merss at the first sing of anything irritating
did this make anyone dry or flaky or at all irritated in any way?
thanks

[EddieE]

I have Alessi sea salt , says is from the Sea and sun. hehe

pure sea!

but i have another sea salt is called All natural Frontier ... costed same price as alessi but is SMALL ,
the alessi sea salt is so big..

maybe the small one better?? ..

Ingredient on small one is Sea salt and magnesium oxide...


so i should just use Alessi sea salt since is from pure sea... >_>

thx

I just washed it for first time , i put warm water in cup , then apply sea salt.. accidently i added alot
then used Cotton pad.. and apply the entire face..

[melaniinii]

hey there ..
i was just wondering when using sea salt do u submerge your face under water too??
or do u use another method??
dumb question but im curious
thanks so much

[jokerj]

ok two new questions: a- it seems like this is only helping my lower back (which looks great btw) btu not my chest or shoudlers
maybe the salt sinks to the bottom?
also, the water doesn't taste salty... i'm using bokek dead sea salt, is this a problem?

thanks

[Tyroto411]

I too have baaaad acne. I am confused though because I want to try this method but I don't know what kind of sea salt to use. Please clarify?? This is maybe my last chance as I have tried so many other things that haven't worked.

[LadyWillow]

my problem sounds petty compared to everyone else's but my back clears up during the summer [i dont live near an ocean btw]
but it always comes back in the winter
should i start this method while my back is clear to prevent breakouts?

[Oceanic]

can i just say that i found the baths rather annoying and couldn't stay in them for longer than 20 mintes. so that idea was out the window.

i tried using a spray bottle. that annoyed me even more.

now, i go in the shower.. i get a jug, put about 4 table spoons of salt in the bottom and fill with boiling hot water. let it cool for a bit and then soak a face cloth in it and wash my body with that.

i've been doing this now for about 3 months.

i used to have really bad bacne, now i'm very close to being 100% clear.

just thought i'd share.

p.s also i used to get a hand towel so it was large enough to grab with both hands and do like an up and down motion so i could reach all of my back. if you get me?

Yeah, I know this was from a while ago. But, I think I am going to try this except with dead sea salt. Thanks!

[Yankulov]

What do people do that dont have a bathtubs? I only have a shower, so....

Yep.. I was wondering the same. I can soak my face in vessel or some other kind of container with sea salt in it, but when comes to body its difficult to find an alternative.

[JAAM83]

hmm .... I think I'll try this method ....

I got a shower also, not a bath ..... what's the best way to do it in my case? do you wash your face/body after you have your sea salt

BTW I just want to have my face covered

[IseeSpiderman]

Hello all,

I'm new to this forum but not to acne. I'm suffering from cystic acne which travels around my forehead leaving scarring in its wake. I've tried every man made acne remedy there is to no avail.

Now it's time for a natural alternative. Today I went out and bought some eye goggles (not covering nose and forehead) and a snorkel. Why? I'll tell you. I am going to try the sea salt regimen. I will be filling a large roasting pan with boiling spring water, adding a liberal amount of sea salt then adding more room temperature spring water to quickly bring it to a tolerable temperature. Then I'll be off snorkeling in the exotic salty seas of my roasting pan off the coast of my living room floor.

I plan to keep my face submerged for 30 minutes each day. Today was day one.

The originator of this thread had great success with his body acne and scarring by remaining submerged for 30 minutes in a hot bath. He could not keep his face under though, hence the snorkel and goggles. The snorkel to breathe and the goggles to keep salt water out of the more sensitive and non acne prone skin around my eyes. I'll keep you all posted on my progress.

[IseeSpiderman]

After two days of the sea salt regimen, I noticed that my face was getting irritated. My skin felt good during and immediately after the soaking, but got progressively more red and irritated as the time passed.

On the third day, I followed the same procedure. With one alteration. Up until now, I had simply been patting my face dry with a clean towel after the soak. My wife suggested that the irritation I was experiencing must have been caused by the salt that remained on my skin after the pat dry. The salt was overdrying my skin and irritating it. So the change I made was to rinse my face off with cool/cold water to remove any residual salt. After making this change on day three, my skin felt much smoother and "cooler" than after the soak on the previous two days. There was no irritation or redness following the rinse and my skin felt great.

Today is day four and I will be rinsing after the soak from now on. So far, my existing active acne has reduced in size about 20 - 30% with no new active sites. So far so good, and here's hoping it will help the red marks from previous active sites as well.

[deletedaccount111]

After two days of the sea salt regimen, I noticed that my face was getting irritated. My skin felt good during and immediately after the soaking, but got progressively more red and irritated as the time passed.

On the third day, I followed the same procedure. With one alteration. Up until now, I had simply been patting my face dry with a clean towel after the soak. My wife suggested that the irritation I was experiencing must have been caused by the salt that remained on my skin after the pat dry. The salt was overdrying my skin and irritating it. So the change I made was to rinse my face off with cool/cold water to remove any residual salt. After making this change on day three, my skin felt much smoother and "cooler" than after the soak on the previous two days. There was no irritation or redness following the rinse and my skin felt great.

Today is day four and I will be rinsing after the soak from now on. So far, my existing active acne has reduced in size about 20 - 30% with no new active sites. So far so good, and here's hoping it will help the red marks from previous active sites as well.

Best of luck spiderman.

[love4moz]

My backround....34 yr old male......problem goes back to teens.....face, back, chest, arms all affected...and I was a picker (scars/marks/etc)....diagnosed as moderate to severe....I have never taken pictures, but at my worst I have looked as bad as any image on this website.

I have used every variation of every regimen on this website.....to include medicine, diet and behavior.....and did so for periods of up to four weeks....all of which has suppressed the breakouts in different ways.......but never stopped it.

Dermatologists could not help.......stopped going after they would eventually prescribe Accutane.

Long story short.......arrived at the following regimen that has really given me NORMAL skin, not perfect skin, but NORMAL skin....a single pimple every once in a while.....but no more BREAKOUTS.

1) SOAK once a day (twice a day if severe) in baths of SEA SALT purchased at local grocery store. Get water as hot as you can stand it, add approx 30 ounces of sea salt, and soak for 30 minutes. Do not get out until your skin begins to prune.

2) GENTLY exfoliate with synthetic brush while soaking in tub (thanks Jess).....again I said GENTLY.

I take very brief showers after the nightly soak, using Neutrogena Body Wash....but the soap I use doesn't seem to matter.

Results have been a process, not an event. Its been about eight weeks......about a 75% VISUAL improvement and about a 90% improvement in TEXTURE.......big ugly depressed scars/marks from wounds I was told would never heal are gone.

In hind sight, I believe that about 50% of the severity of my skin problems were self inflicted......with the amount and rate of chemicals I have put on my body (and the picking), it is amazing I have any left.

I, like many others on this board, noticed the amazing results of time spent in the ocean during the summer....and feel stupid that it took me this long to figure out.

Hang in there everyone.....

[omega23]

k...let me get this right...30oz = 3.75 cups of sea salt...seems like a lot LOL

also i did a little test with a cup, i got the larger chunks of sea salt instead of the grainy kind which i assumed would dissolve the same but didnt really that well...so i took my grinder and grinded the 4kg that i bought straight down to tiny grains.

as for washing face with this stuff, is it cool if i take half tablespoon and mix with my cetephil, or should i use the larger grains mixed with cetaphil?

[scrubmetender]

I'm going to try this. I went to the beach this summer(didn't go for years!) twice and spent only 20/30 minutes in the sea water and that was enough to clear my back acne almost 100% not to mention the skin texture, it felt different, much softer. The effect lasted about one and half weeks before new breakouts.
I hope the sea salt water has the same effect or close to real sea water.

[BeautifulSkinAgain]

I'm going to try this. I went to the beach this summer(didn't go for years!) twice and spent only 20/30 minutes in the sea water and that was enough to clear my back acne almost 100% not to mention the skin texture, it felt different, much softer. The effect lasted about one and half weeks before new breakouts.
I hope the sea salt water has the same effect or close to real sea water.

Yes the sea/ocean water is a cure for back, chest and facial acne. It healed me. However, the acne did come back. There is something in the seasalt that's a miracle with acne.

[perfect.dark]

I have been taking sea salt baths every day for the past week and it has made a difference for me.

I do not have body acne, but I do have some on my face. The acne itself is not my problem, I have a few pimples at a time that cluster on my cheeks and come back in the same general area. My problem is the scars. By the time the scars start disapearing I have more pimples and so it goes. It has taken more then 2-3 monthes for some scars to fade (maybe more), they accumulate and my face looks much worse then it really is.

I use Tea Tree oil to get rid of the infection in the pimples (or whatever you want to call it), it is the only thing that will not dry my skin out like crazy. Monocycline didn't work, that Differin stuff made my face peel, and Salicylic acid makes my skin so dry too.

So far the salt is doing a great job of clearing up the scars. I'd say maybe 75% better in a week, and no more new pimples.

Does anyone have any tips for other things that may help the scars heal? Is it normal that the mark stick around for so long? I just don't understand, I heal so well for everything else.

[tommo10]

I allways seem to clear up a lot when i go on a beach holiday and i think it must be the salt/sun combination, i might give this a try.

has anyone tried using salt in a mask? dont see why it wouldnt be any less effective and would be a lot cheaper than putting a whole tub of salt in the bath every day.
Ive seen home facial mask recipes made with oatmeal or yoghurt, could mix some salt into it and leave on for 10 minutes before you shower, as long as you dont mind looking like a yeti for a bit.

Any opinions?