Beauty Tips For Body Care
I just wanted to post about my experience in case it can help anyone else because I feel like a complete moron.I found Skincareaddiction in the summer of 2014. I was dealing with moderate acne and dry, flaky skin at that time. I had been to the dermatologist but they couldn't offer me anything useful. They just diagnosed me with "rosacea" (very unlikely. I was just sunburnt that day.)When I found this community, I was intrigued because it gave me hope. I immediately went out and bought all the faves: CeraVe in the tub, Stridex red, sunscreen, sunflower oil, neem oil, etc. After a few months, my skin was looking really nice. Eventually I threw away all my products that are considered "no-nos" by Beautypedia, including Carmex since it has menthol and camphor. I also soon traded my Stridex for PC BHA. The BHA didn't seem any better and other lip balms weren't hydrating my lips but I decided not to reintroduce those products, fearing some terrible damage would happen to my skin if I let fragrance or menthol touch it.Anyway, my new fragrance-menthol-alcohol-everything free routine was working okay, but then people started posting about a new service called Pocketderm.Of course I signed up. Sure, OTC treatments seemed to be working, but who wouldn't want tretinoin with how it is portrayed on this sub and the Pocketderm site? It's anti-aging! Anti-acne! You will look like a porcelain doll in mere months! I was sold.Long story short, Pocketderm made all of my skin issues 100x worse. The acne was back. The dry skin was back. People said it was normal. They said to give it time. I gave it about 8 months. I talked to the derm on the service and they changed my formula over and over again but nothing helped. I got disillusioned and cancelled Pocketderm and stopped coming on reddit. (I can't even remember my username so that's why I'm on a new account.)I stopped taking care of my skin for about 6 months and it went back to its pre-SCA state. Only recently have I decided to go back to products that have been proven to work for me (Carmex, Stridex, CeraVe) and disregard what other people think should work based on "research".Because honestly, the research isn't good sufficient about many skincare topics. Paula's vendetta against fragrance is mostly based on old studies that look at people with fragrance allergies, not what your everyday consumer will experience. The fact is that very little money goes into studying skincare for the OTC market. Most studies have terrible design and limited applicability to the real world.Basically, you should trust your own experience over what people on SCA or Beautypedia say is good for skin.By the way, I know SCA doesn't encourage this mindset. I think I just got obsessed browsing so much that my brain was replaced by hivemind opinion. But I realize this is a good sub and helpful for many people. I just thought I should post this to anyone who thinks they're getting trapped in the same thought patterns I was. That is all I have to say. Thanks for any thoughts.
Girls Blog 2015
Submitted by -eracniks
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