Natural Eye Cream/Makeup Remover

I was just wondering if any of you use a natural eye cream? I NEED to use eye cream because the skin around my eyes gets so dry and delecate. Usually I use Emu oil or Jojoba or Evening Primrose Oil. The only issue is I put it on top of my eyelid because they get dry too and recently I was thinking about how permeable our eyelids are... like I wonder if it's safe to put a bit of oil on my eyelids... this is kind of a stupid question, but would it be able to soak through my eye lid and get into my eye??? LOL I'm just worried about damaging my eye. It's a stupid question I know but I would like to know. I have tried to find it out by googling it but I got nothin.

Also... I want to try and stop using any chemicals on my face, what does everyone here use as an eye makeup remover? I usually use spectro jel and I know it has some icky stuff in it. I have recently started to just wash my face with water and not use moisturizer except for Emu oil on some of the dry parts of my face.

Hormones.......................

Hey guys... So I have been on the birth control pill for 8 years now and I feel like I should be getting off these artficial hormones. They have caused me a lot of issues in the past and I'm not even sure it helped my skin... maybe at first but I was on it when I started to develope acne, so obviously it didnt do much for me. I have recently switched from Othro Tri-cyclen to Ortho Tri-Cyclen Lo... So far I honestly dont mind it.... I havent noticed a huge change in my skin and well my periods are very strange on it but short (I dont get my period the week I'm off the pill I get it the last row of the pills... weird I know). However my moods are crazy sometimes... but they always have been on the pill. I feel very bi-polar.

What I'm wondering is has anyone here ever made a smooth transition from being on the pill to being off of it? Are there any supplements I can take to help me ease out of it? Right now I am taking DIM and Evening Primrose Oil... I know EVO helps with my PMS so I know it does help balance my hormones, but I havent notices any changes after starting DIM... I still break out, but I am wondering if it's because I am combining the DIM with the birth control pill? I would really appreciate if you girls could help me out with any possible advise... this is very scary for me... especially since I dont want to get pregnant haha. But I would rather use condoms than be on fake hormones that cause me so much stress.

Thanks in advance ...

Hope this helps***************

Hi all... I havent been on here for a long time haha... I have been trying to manage my acne by myself, I have been following my insticts. Basically I have been experimenting with what I thought was causing my acne... seeing what exactly triggers it and what doesnt. I am happy to say I have learned a lot about myself in the process.... I am not 100% clear... but I have found ways to control my skin and to keep it generally the way I want it.

My main issues:

- Dairy (this was the BIG one for me)
It SUCKS... but I KNOW I cant eat it without breaking out...

- Hormones
Any kind of spike or change in hormones affects my skin... that's pretty common for most people with acne... however I found a simple way to comtrol it. I have been using evening primrose for quite a while... but I think I was using it the wrong way before. I started to think about the way us girls take our birth control pills... at the SAME TIME every day. So I thought why not try that with the evening primrose oil... I started taking it the same time everyday along with a zinc supplement.... My skin seemed to like it. Also... if I ever suspect I've had a spike in hormones (orgasm hahaha) I quickly take EPO afterwards. (having an orgasm sometimes gives me beakouts along my jawline... I know people hate the idea that orgasms cause acne... but it seems to cause problems for me). As long as I try to control my hormones with the EPO my skin seems to level out.

-Stress
I guess this has a lot to do with hormones... but I do find that when I am under less stress my skin is happier. I take a B-complex stress formula vitamin and it seems to keep my stress down.

-FOOD
I have stopped stressing out so much about what I eat... it seems as though the stress I get from THINKING I am going to break out just makes things worse. I am a HEALTHY eater still... but I dont stress out if have a hot dog once in a while or a bite of my boyfriend's cheese burger. I find if I try to eat healthy my skin seems to be happy with me. The main things I stay way from: MSG, trans fat, dairy, white flour, white sugar etc.... (I try not to eat a alot of sugar), anything artificial. I eat some things organic, but I dont stress out if I cant have organic. I take a fish oil supplement to balance out my omegas... however I DO eat quite a bit of seafood .

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How to get a CREAMY pasta sauce without using dairy: Lots of almond milk+some sea salt+garlic+brown rice flour (dont use alot of flour, start out with a table spoon and wait until it starts to thicken, then add more for desired thickness)+a bit of sherry or white wine= AN AMAZING CREAMY PASTSA SAUCE you could fool your friends with... they wont know the difference.
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-On the outside
I use SpectroJel face wash and Complex 15 face cream... I could not find anything natural that didnt break me out hahha... as hard as I tried... I couldnt. The closest thing I came to was using pure glycerin as a face cream or Emu Oil... but it made my skin SO OILY.
I use a glycolic acid 10% peel once a week to even out my skin tone... seems to help with scars.
Everything I put on my body I try to make sure it's as natural as possible (besides my face cream and face wash hahahha) I use organic soaps and lotions and shampoos.

-CANDIDA
GET RID OF IT!!! AHHH! I HATE IT! I do a yeast cleanse once a year.... even if I dont have symptoms. I get a kit that has the pills and drops (all natural) and I go on the candida diet for a month.... and I go pretty hard core with it.
I cant say that this helped my skin... BUT it helped my BODY...I FEEL so much better after doing this cleanse. TRY IT.

WELL guys.... I really hope this helps some of you. It has been quite a long journey for me and I hope that this information can help some of you shorten that journey.

They have come up with a name for....us?

Thank-you to anyone who takes the time to read this....

So I havent been on the org in a while... but a recent argument with my mother has me in a rage.... and I feel the need to vent to people who understand how I feel....

My mother read an article in a magazine about an new eating disorder called "orthorexia", and she told me to read it because she "knows" that I have this disorder and she is concered for my health...

I was SO angry with her... because she has never understood the reason why I eat healthy... she has always made fun of the way I eat. The funny thing is, I feel like she does that because she herself eats shitty... and she doesnt care that she does ONE bit. She hates that I cook this "weird food" and tells me that I am too skinny... This MAKES ME SO ANGRY!!! BECAUSE SHE used to be just as thin as me... maybe even thinner and people used to make fun fo her all the time... even though she ate alot of bad food, she was still a bone rack.

BUT now that she is in her 50s and has gained weight because her metabolism has slowed down, for some reason she has forgotten all about how it felt to be made fun of for being too skinny, because NOW she feels the need to make fun of me. She is like a fat person who gets her stomach stapled and then loses weight and decides to then make fun of fat people... How HORRIBLE is that??

Anyway... she sees me eat EVERYDAY and seriously I eat ALOT... but I eat healthy and not overly healthy like I eat alot of meat, seafood, veggies, grains... I eat a well balanced diet... but I cant eat dairy because it makes me break out AND it KILLS my stomach (she think I am being stupid by not eating dairy, she is one of those people who thinks that even though you are allergic to something... you should eat it anyway because it is too DANGEROUS NOT TO... LOLOLOL... okaaayyy mom) Anyway even though she sees me eat ALOT of food every day, she STILL thinks I am not getting enough "nutrition"... she tells me to go eat McDolnalds.... LOL this makes me crazy.

So she has now found this excuse to rag on me even more about my eating... she has found what SHE believes to be a diagnosis: Orthorexia

This is basically what orthorexia is:

What is orthorexia?

The term orthorexia is used by some eating-disorder specialists to describe an unhealthy fixation with healthy eating. While not an officially recognized disorder, it is similar to several serious diagnoses. Like anorexia, it often involves severe weight loss, but so-called orthorexics are obsessed with food quality, rather than quantity, and strive for personal purity in their eating habits rather than for a thin physique.

The word orthorexia was coined in 1997 by Colorado alternative medicine specialist Steven Bratman. Implicit in the description are traits that resemble obsessive-compulsive disorder, since sufferers devote excessive attention to their own strict rules and often spend hours each day worrying about tomorrow's meals. Such a person may find himself socially isolated because he doesn't indulge in everyday dishes. "If your focus on healthy eating is interfering with your happiness and social life," says Bratman, "you might have a problem."

Although many experts believe orthorexia may be a genuine concern, some think it's not a clinically useful diagnosis. "I've had many patients who are bent on absolute purity, down to the last little vitamin," says Joel Jahraus, medical director of Remuda Life Programs in Phoenix, Arizona. "But there's already a name for it: anorexia." Douglas Bunnell, president of the National Eating Disorders Association, agrees that while orthorexia may be important as a lay concept, in terms of treatment it differs from anorexia only in the finer points.

With almost 65 percent of Americans overweight, the hazards of eating too healthfully may seem like nit-picking. But Bunnell sees a hidden danger in the public focus on obesity: undue anxiety. Whether or not you label them orthorexic, certain people are psychologically vulnerable to becoming too rigid in their eating, he says.


Psychology Today Magazine, Sep/Oct 2004
Last Reviewed 28 Apr 2008
Article ID: 3603

This describes alot of what I am... however I am not the extreme... I still go out with friends to eat, and I go to family dinners and I eat what other people make me AS LONG as there is NO dairy, NO trans fats and NO msg in it. I dont care what other people think... I will eat healthy if i damn well please... I mean I get that there are some people who get a little too obsessed and they DO take it to the extreme, but as long as people are being smart about their food and they are making sure they get all the nutrients they need in a balanced diet... I belive that its OKAY to turn down a quick trip to McDonalds with your friends... IF you suggest a different place to eat that YOU are okay with. Just make sure you are not socially isolating youself.

HAHA BEWARE the term Orthorexic... because it may become a well known term and who knows how many poeple on this site will be accused of having it.

Folding eyelids... AGH!!

So almost every year around this time because it gets so dry out I get dermatitis around my eyes and my eyelids start to stick together and they fold up and it makes it so I cant even open my eyes all the way... Usually my solution is using either jojoba oil or emu oil on my eyelids and eventually they would go back to normal... THIS year however the oils arent helping! They almost seem to be making it worse!! I dont understand!! It's been three weeks since they have been like this and I feel like crying because I just want my eyelids to go back to normal! It makes me look awfullllll.... it's bad enough I have acne.... Have any of your ever experienced this?? What should I do??