Hobby's and Stuffs- home made skin care.

So in the spirit of the whole "hobbies" thing. I figure I'd elaborate on what and why I changed things.

You see when I was working I bought my skin care and had a routine. This routine required me to bed over my sink for about 30 min while I lotion-ed and potion-ed my face. Usually I would use makeup remover, face wash, scrub if necessary, cleanse my pores, and then apply moisturizer and go to bed. All of this required me to stand in front of the mirror while I scrubbed and rubbed everything.

With my injury this is something that I had to stop doing. There was a while that my face just went to hell because all it got was an appricot scrub in the shower and water morning, noon, and night. Really- it was neglected because you dont want to know how much I have had to scale my showers down to (the answer is a 50% or more reduction in frequency because it hurts to stand in the shower and take off and put on clothes)

So I needed to get a new system. My old system was pretty good- kept most of the zits away. I come from a long line of people with very big porous skin and really bad backne. So being in my late 20's I resign to having "eh" skin for life unless I wanted to spend big bucks on peals or something. Maybe when I hit 30?

Moisture is something I really took for granted for a long time. And then I started to get fine lines. I know I'm going to need to get more aggressive with those here soon- but for now I'll try to go after it with moister.

When you have acne, one of the causes of zits, pimples or other blemishes is bacteria. I have two boys- they L.O.V.E to touch  my face. I mean, touch it- feet, hands, head banging touching.

So moisture and bacteria fighting were my biggest challenges. I got onto pinterest and found a post about only using coconut oil here.

And golly- it has really helped my skin. It is very nerving to put oil on my face because I have such oily skin, but in one of my other posts I mentioned Jacklyn Hill and she made an offhanded comment about not trying to dry your skin out to much because it will produce more oil- when I started putting the coconut oil on my skin it really helped that.

I had the oil sitting around the house because we used it on my Big for a while because he had rash issues- NO I did not use his but oil, but we had other in the house for cooking and such.

Well that was my gateway drug into essential oils which I will talk about those later.

So I use the method mentioned before- I just put the oil on my face and then wipe it off with a hot as I can stand wet cloth. I can lay down, sit down, do other things while I just let it sit on my face (I may have my oil plastered face while I'm writing this!) and it really has helped my pores and skin balance out. Its almost as if for me, my skin takes what it needs from the oil and the hot cloth takes it all away.

To give an idea of how effective this was for me- like the other girl I tried my old routine (with drugs and wine tyvm) and I could squeeze my pores on my nose (a trouble spot) and get shit tons of.. well.. shit out of my pores. I did the coconut oil and could squeeze very little out, not even enough to say it couldn't have been moisture from my hands.  (other side of my nose, both are equally as bad so I had tons of shitty pores to work with.) So I'd call that a win.

I also found Silver Powder from Mario Badescu which again, I apply, do my thing and then take it off. After I've cleaned the hell out of my face, I use that and it shuts my pores pretty tight which helps.

So my routine went to standing over the sink for 30 min to:
Go to Mirror, Open jar, put oil all over face, rub in a little bit to ensure full coverage.
Lay in bed set timer for 10 min
Use hot cloth to blot off oil.
Put on moisturizer.
DONE.

Just as long, no standing required. I'm a genius I tell you!

I've handed some essential oil's to my face wash- to be honest I forget which ones. I can probably find a pinned post somewhere- but I want to adjust it to find something I "love" before I share. However I guess in the end that doesn't matter because everyone's skin is different... Hmm..