Hi Mimili. You need to be patient. It will take between 6 months to 24 months to start achieving healthy looking skin. To help you maximise your healing, keep as faithful as possible to a Candida Diet (to eliminate yeast, sugar & gluten just google this) and a diabetic diet (similar to the Candida diet). You should also stay away from anything which makes your body acidic. You need to make it alkaline. Here are some general tips:
1. Try cleansing your skin with extra organic cold pressed coconut oil etc at least once a day...either rinse with water or leave on for half an hour then rinse.
2. Try applying lime juice morning and night to your skin after using the Oil Cleansing Method above. It makes it heal and glow.
3. Scrub the skin gently once a week or month with cinnamon and nutmeg (just add honey and lime juice). This makes a nice natural antiseptic, antibacterial and anti-fungal scrub.
(Please discontinue this treatment if this is too strong or flares up your skin). 4. If you have a break out use lavender oil on the spot. For a bigger breakout, wash with sea salt and water for a week and then return to using Oil Cleansing Method.
5. Depending on your skin, use Hyaluronic Acid serum to moisturize daily (if your skin is very oily) or just dab a little virgin coconut oil or pure aloe vera beneath the lime juice at night. Don't wash your face in the morning. In fact, go a few days without washing and make-up as over washing dries out your skin and makes it acne prone and dull.
5. Eat less than half a tea spoon of cinnamon after a big meal, to help stabilize your blood sugar (as sugar spikes in the blood can cause acne).
6. Drink liver cleansing fresh juices daily like beetroot, carrot, apple and ginger or green juices with parsley, cucumber, alfalfa and spinach lettuce etc.
7. Exercise gently every day for 20 minutes or 1 hour.
8. Sleep in a cool and dark room. Get natural sunlight without sunblock for at least 1/2 hr to 1 hour per day. Just don't get sunburn.
9. Eats lots of healthy oils with omega 3 like cold pressed flaxseed oil or walnut oil, coconut oil. Also, be generous with extra virgin olive oil. Just don't cook it.
10. Stay away from processed foods, fried foods and sauces. Eat mostly natural, raw, unprocessed, organic wholefoods that are grown on trees like legumes, nuts, fruits and vegetables.
11. Drink a wedge of lemon juice in purified water first thing the morning.
12.Add fresh lemon juice to all foods instead of vinegar and sauces.
13. Stay away from sugars, sweets, junk food, takeaway, sodas, alcohol, teas or coffee.
14. You can drink herbal tea that's caffeine free like spearmint & chamomile etc.
15. Try taking a non-dairy refrigerated quality probiotic per day.
16. Eat lots of veggies & fruit like sweet potato, asparagus, cos lettuce, tomato, red/ green/ yellow bell peppers, herbs (parsley, mint), carrots, avocado, kiwi fruit, berries, apple etc
17. Eat a handful of mixed nuts and seeds daily.
18. If you choose to eat meat (which I don't recommend at all), stick with organic, grass fed meats, or better still, Turkey, Salmon and Tuna etc.
19. Stay away from dairy. But if you choose to eat dairy, stick to small quantities of cheeses. However, if you breakout eating cheeses, stop eating them.
20. For extra help, try taking psyllium husk fiber once a day (like metamucil) to keep you regular.
21. Also, look into doing a glycolic acid peel once a fortnight or month or every 6 months depending on your skin. Start at 10% unbuffered strength and then work up to 20% strength after 10 x 10% applications. You can use 35% strength in your 30s. NOTE: Leave the acid on your skin until it turns lightly pink and then neutralize BUT no longer than 10 minutes. Please see a beautician or dermatologist first time doing this. However, once you are confident your skin can handle this, you can do these at home yourself. You'll need witch hazel to prep your skin prior to the peel and then you'll need to neutralize the acid with Bicarbinated Soda.
22. If you need extra help, look into gentle home skin needling with vitamin c serum and copper serum. See www.clearskincare.com.au for a simple kit that's cost effective.
23. Use lots of spices & fresh herbs in your cooking like turmeric, ginger, mint, continental parsley etc
24. Eat superfoods like chlorella and spirulina, quinoa, berries, chia seeds etc.
25. Take a daily multivitamin (and possibly also a mega B complex vitamin with zinc, magnesium like "Nature's Way" Mega B).
26. You can eat non dairy dark chocolate 80-85% as a treat or popcorn with lemon juice, sea salt (and curry powder if you like spicy things).
27. Drink 6-8 glasses of purified spring alkaline (even ionized if you have an ionizer) water daily.
28. Get fresh air as often as possible. Walk in a local park or by the seashore.
29. Stay happy, positive & enjoy life! The less you stress about your skin the sooner your skin will recover.
30. Keep researching into new natural skincare products and health tips.
Hope this information is useful!
As
** Note: I took out the former reference to olive oil topicals because it can encourage fungus/ yeast growth on certain individuals.
Edited by aquasea, 05 February 2012 - 08:36 PM.
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I want advice about skincare, natural remedies, nutrition...anything! Cause I feel like nothing is giving me my pretty teenage skin back again..
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