THE PERFECT SKIN

          The Perfect skin. Everybody wants it. Me, you, your mom, dad, aunt, friend, boyfriend, EVERYBODY! Even your cat one wants it. But because of the things that we do in our lives, we cannot prevent it from happening... that's right, ACNE. 

        Acne comes along when one reaches puberty, and some maybe even until adulthood. I've always been a skin freak, but I do admit that I have acne, and I hate them.

               When I was in high school, I was free from that stage, I had flawless skin (face), but when I got into college, hmmm things didn't really turn out that well. I started breaking out. I didn't really understand why, but they just started popping out from my face like crazy! (okay, well maybe not that much) And I tried out all the different products out there, and nothing stopped it. Until over a year later that I decided to go try out a dermatologist in our local hospital, and it was so costly, I couldn't even see the results, in fact it even got worse. :'( So, there I was... loosing hope, but then I decided to go to the most basic thing there is to prevent having acne, so I bought this sulfur soap called 'Dr. Kaufmann IR - All Skin-germ Protection Soap' yes, the white one and it's sooo cheap (actually I was using this product wayback when I was in high school along with RDL facial cleanser mixed with DALACIN C capsule and it worked, but I used it in college, and it did nothing at all.) So, only using the soap, I had to be very patient. My dad (who is Chinese) was also telling me to even drink this 'Armadillo Antipyretic Pills' which were very effective food supplements by the way to be only taken for 3 weeks ( cause if you overdose yourself on the medication, your skin will become drug-dependent, and that will be the last thing that you will want.) 

 *only one capsule per bottle did the trick

          So, I made sure I had a good and balanced diet, exercised well, drank gallons and gallons of water (really, Hydration helps) used the soap according to its directions properly stated at the back of the container ( lathering it on your hands and gently lathering it on your face, and leaving it on for 1-3 minutes for me mostly) and most especially made sure I had enough hours of sleep (7-8 hours will do).

       And you don't know how it changed my life! Not only did I loose weight, but I also had clearer and fairer skin. Reason why I said fairer skin? It's because the soap makes you have  'micro-peeling' which is caused by a rather fast production of new skin cells (mitosis). So it's like saying, 'out with the old, and in with the new!'. 

        I chose this topic for today because I know, that out there, there a millions and millions of people like me. But the real deal is for us to have a stress-free life. Dermatologists always remind their patients that 'the more you stress out on your acne, the worse they can get' so I guess, we should just leave it be, and try our damn best to prevent further break-outs in the future. At the end of the day, it all depends on your skin type (obviously, I have the sensitive one). But really! What's important is that we be comfortable in our own skin, and be happy of course! :))))))

*I also tried using Cetaphil; it worked, but damn, it's so costly! And it makes skin oily, well for me.*

OH WELL!

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Liz Yulo Chua here