Beauty Tips For Body Care
So I have mild to moderate acne and I started skincare somewhere around June this year and I realised I started to get white heads which I had never gotten before. My routine was something like morning (wash w water, moisturise, spf) and night (cleanser, paula's choice BHA 4x a week, moisturise) So BHA is meant to unclog pores right? So I obviously eliminated it as the culprit causing my whiteheads and started thinking it was my moisturiser which I used cerave PM back then and started switching it to others such as neutrogena hydroboost gel cream (no fragrance version) and also IUNIK calming gel cream. I was very careful to choose non-comodogenic moisturizers BUT the white heads still came every morning when I woke up!! I got pretty frustrated wondering why so many moisturisers with good reviews did not work for me. Until I came across a comment on reddit recently about how a damaged skin barrier or moisture barrier could lead to inflammation and white heads. So I removed all the actives from my routine (BHA and differin which I started two weeks ago), and just stuck with cleanse, moisturise and spf and four days in, I'm only left with one or two white heads when I wake up!! And my skins started to glow as well. I guess I really damaged my moisture barrier (at my peak I used differin 4x a week and BHA 1x a week) and also previously when I was just using BHA, 4x was definitely too much, which led to my constant white heads. MORAL OF THE STORY: protect ur moisture/skin barrier!! and overusing actives may actually make ur skin worse. I'm intending to introduce back my actives slowly once I feel that my skin is strong enough. Cheers and merry skincare everybody :)
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