[PSA] Something we all know, but that I have to re-learn every now and then: the skin in your face is far more delicate than you think, even if you don't have sensitive skin.

Beauty Tips For Body Care
Like many of you, I've been on a long skin journey, littered with many products I should have known better than to use, at least as frequently as I did. I wish I could tap my past self on the shoulder and whisper "be gentle" so many times. To name just a few:- Clean and Clear acne wash (the purple stuff) every day and night on my 12-year-old skin: why was this ever ok?- Clearasil pads, scrubbed across my face twice a day: NO.- PanOxyl every day, even when my face was red and burned: who told me I could burn my acne off of my face?- Witch hazel toner with 14% denatured alcohol: absolutely not. What was I thinking, that it's normal for skin to suddenly feel "tight" at 18?- Weekly masks. That promised to peel the top layer of skin off my face. And did.- Weekly Aztec clay masks, that caused teeny tiny scratches all over my face: I used this AFTER the memes started about apricot scrub - how did I think this was at all better?- Nizoral masks for ten minutes, twice a day (you can't have fungal acne on your face if you don't have a face!)- Peeling solutions and acid exfoliants. My most recent conquest. It was only after I said out loud that "It just feels like my skin is unhappy" that I reconsidered my frequent use of "gentle acids."If you know your products work, keep using them! But if your skin seems like it just isn't healing when it seems like it should, please consider that if you are "fighting" acne, you are also fighting your face. Instead of "fighting," I now focus on "healing."
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