The Skin Battle
What if I told those of you battling
skin outbreaks and aging, you could save hundreds of dollars a month
on skin care by making a few simple changes in your skin care
routine?
I see I have your attention.
Keep in mind next time you decide to
buy that expensive bottle of skin something, there probably is no
research anywhere that says it works.
However, these two things do work.
If you battling skin outbreaks, buy a
roll of paper towels. What????
It is simple. Using a towel or
washcloth twice has given bacteria the opportunity to establish
itself, build communities and by day three, work on skyscrapers.
However, the paper towel is clean and sanitary and going in the
garbage or in my case, the work area to be reused for something else
and then mulched.
Want to keep from aging? Forget the
creams, special sponges and so forth. Use your fingers. Yes, wash
your hands and apply the soap with your fingers gently. Every pull,
scrub and stretch of your skin expands it and ages you when the
collagen in your skin begins to decline. It remembers every little
tug. So, no scrubbing or electric devices. Gently apply the cleanser
with your fingers to a warm water rinsed face and splash it off with
cool water to close your pores.
Why isn't this in the headlines?
Paper towels aren't that expensive and
your fingers are free.
How I learned about all this was from a
dermatologist but even she fell prey to publicity machine. She
prescribed an over the counter cream containing X. X was all the
rage.
I am not the average patient. I have a
medical background, albeit in psychiatry, but it taught me to
research and above all, question. An X sounded like something I
should find in a ceramics studio. I checked the research and found
ONE study in a foreign country where they actually manufacture these
little things for cosmetics. Yes, I smelled collusion. That study
was inconclusive and involved taking the X internally, not smearing
them on your skin. Then I looked at the active ingredients on the
skin cream bottle label, and guess what wasn't listed. You got it, X.
I was buying a jay of petroleum jelly for 14.95 with a bunch of
inactive ingredients. I can get that at the Dollar Store and add my
own free inactive ingredients. Inactive ingredients don't do anything
and are usually a by-product of the manufacturing process unless they
have a neat name and you can feature them because no one reads the
label.
So, if you must spend money, read the
label. If it is a lot of money, plug the touted ingredient into the
great god GOOGLE and see what comes up. Look for real scientific
studies not advertisements. You will save a lot of money that way.
