Have acne???

no problem jules I posted some info on the herbs just for u.:)

Ive also learned that dairy and milk can be a problem with acne. YEAST DAIRY and any other allergy type of food stay away from. Eat  a lot or take a lot  of burdock root and red clover flower and itll help a lot this is why in china they got good skin. I take it all the time and I dont get pimples at all. but thats me. good luck people!:)

Edited by babycheeks24 - January 08 2008 at 9:08pm

Sorry I didnt respond,but I was actually away from the internet since about May!

Edited by julesyjul88 - September 25 2007 at 2:34am

Excellent! 

Yeah, I've had that happen several times too, where the docs are just spouting their training and they're saying the same stuff I tried 10 years ago that didn't work then and they don't even know about the things I found that do work, for plenty of conditions.  Maybe one day science'll catch up.

Yeah, its crazy that you can cure so much just by getting rid of it.  I guess a pH diet doesn't get docs business or money, but you'd think they'd have an urge to help people anyway.

Yeah, you can cure so much just by getting rid of it, I can't believe more docs don't consider it more important these days now that so much more is known about it than even 10 years ago.

If your skin doesn't like harsh treatment, the peels may not be for you then, it is definitely tough stuff.  (And that is SO unfair that some people can eat tons of sugar!...although I have to say, I used to be jealous of a friend of mine because she could eat tons of dessert and not have the problems I was getting, she had perfect skin and everything, then a couple of years went by and she got the exact same problems SO much worse than mine were...still no acne but all the internal problems.  I guess its really not a good idea for anybody to eat tons of sugar, even if it doesn't give them problems, since it may just whomp them hard down the road.  Oh well though, all personal choices.)

You know what's funny?  I used to get at least one big one during my monthly hormonal time, and since I gave up wheat, I didn't even get one small one that week!  My shock continues!  I'm glad you are finding things that work for you too!  Raw produce is excellent.

You know Alisa, that gets me thinking, I bet sugar only causes breakouts in those that have a problem with yeast.  It would make sense since eating sugar feeds them and gets them to reproduce and release more toxins.  Just a theory though, I don't know if science knows for sure.

I have the same trouble with some products.  Tea tree oil is often recommended for acne, but it makes me break out. 

I have never tried the peels they sell, but I did have 2 glycolic acid ones done at a dermatologist when I was a teen, and had the same result by doing the same technique with a 2% salycilic acid astringent at home.  (I just used a cotton ball and rubbed it on my face for a couple of minutes until my face started to burn, then rinsed with cold water for a few minutes to cool it down...the same thing they did at the dermatologist.  You don't want to overdo it so you have serious burns, but your face will get red and be red for a day, then the salycilic acid causes the outer layer of skin to come off...you don't peel or see it coming off, you just know it does when you wash your face because your skin gets softer.  You want to be careful doing stuff like that at home though, you can burn your skin if you do it too long, and don't do it any more frequently than once a month).  The one I used to do that was the Clean and Clear acne astringent which was 2% salycilic back then (I haven't checked recently because I found a less drying routine now that I break out less...but back when I broke out bad, this kind of rough treatment was the only thing that worked).  By the way, even though it was the same line, the Clean and Clear toner is another product that made me break out.

Babycheeks, what at home remedy do you make to get rid of scars?

Caffeine and chocolate have not had any adverse effects for me either. I am a chocoholic, and love coffee.What makes me brake out is sugar. I did an yeast cleanse, and it has helped me tremendoulsy. I have also noticed that when I don't exfoliate regularly, I tend to brake out more. Though, I have to be careful which product I use. I was using the st.ives apricot scrub renew and firm. It made me brake out. Dove has a gentle exfoliating cleanse that seema to be working very well form me. I also use meaningful beauty by Cindy Crawford. I really like it, my skin just glows, but the cleanser dosen't exfoliat enough for me. I would like to try one those peels mentioned before, I just don't which one to use, there are so many out there.  

I'm in my 30's and always had the occasional breakout. A couple years ago it got bad, and a friend suggested Proactiv, so I did the 2 month free trial. Within a week, my skin had improved...then about a month later a coworker asked what I was using on my face, as my skin looked so smooth and 'glowing'.  I continued with Proactiv for about 6 months. I tried easing back into drugstore stuff for cost reasons, but slowly pimples started to return.  My skin doesn't like products with salicylic acid, which I'm glad I've learned finally.  It works great for some, just as Proactiv works great for some as well. It's all a trial and error finding the right product/ingredients for your skin.