WEBVTT - Stop Asking What's Causing Your Acne (Ask This Instead) 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:03.000 I was essentially marinating my face in hair products every 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:06.240 night and sleeping on a dirty pillow and that had 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:09.200 washing ingredients in it that are also going to break 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:11.039 me out. So you bet my face was a pizza. 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:12.959 You see how things add up, And that's what I'm 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:15.880 trying to say, like it's usually a storm of things 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:19.720 that is causing your acne. Hello, guys, and welcome back 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:24.360 to Stepping Up. Today's episode is one that I don't know. 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:26.520 I feel like is very close to my heart because 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:28.960 it's something I've struggled with for a long time, and 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:33.160 I honestly wish everything I'm about to cover in this episode, 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:36.519 I wish I knew a lot a long long time ago, 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:38.440 because it would have saved me a lot of pain 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:44.240 and heartache and also money. To be honest with you now, disclaimer, 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:46.839 As you guys know, I'm not a dermatologist, I'm not 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:50.159 an esthetician, whatever you want to call it. I'm not 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:52.919 those things. But I am someone who has struggled with 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:56.520 adult acne for a long time, for at least about 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:59.760 a decade, and there's some things, you know, I've done 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:02.120 so much research and I've tried and tested, and I've 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:04.919 also you know, learned a lot of things along the way. 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:06.240 And these are not. 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:10.120 Only things that work for me, but also things that 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:13.920 are backed by science and also people also, like you know, 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:17.440 people like dermatoptologists do share. And again I'm not saying 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:20.319 that what I'm going to go through here is going 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:24.080 to work for everybody, but usually help a lot. 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:26.399 So if you, if you, if. 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:28.880 You get what I'm putting down here, So yes, this 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:32.040 chances are if you're listening to this episode as well, 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:35.400 you very much know the pain of having acne, adult 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:39.640 acne and just the toll it takes on your confidence 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:42.000 but also your mental health, Like it just sucks, like 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:46.040 having to try and put makeup over really painful acne 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:49.240 and cysts are just it's not nice. It's not a 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:51.600 nice feeling. And it's your face, Like you're allowed to 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:55.000 be self conscious of your face because we're humans, and 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:58.240 it's a goddamn face. And you know, you I'll see 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:01.000 beautiful girls out, you know, out public with no makeup 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:03.400 on and they've got some acne and they still look 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:06.000 so so beautiful. But I'm not going to sit here 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:08.200 and tell you or just to embrace it. And you know, 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:08.880 it is what it. 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:10.480 Is because I get it, bloody get it. 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:12.960 By the end of this episode, you are going to 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:15.360 learn a lot more about, you know, the causes of 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:18.640 acne in adults and women, but even learn about a 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:20.720 lot of the causes of acne that you would never 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:24.560 even think were a thing. Like again, if I knew 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:26.760 these things, I'm like, it makes so much sense now 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:30.640 to me because I know the things. But I didn't 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:32.800 always know these things, and it was a really painful 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:35.200 journey to get to where I am now. 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:39.639 Now. The reason I'm recording this episode is because you. 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:43.160 Know, I've spent thousands and thousands of dollars trying to 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:45.480 clear up my skin, and I want to give you 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:49.760 some backstory soon because I wasn't. I didn't always have painful, cystic, 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:54.680 hormonal acne. But you know, I've tried everything to fix 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:57.079 my skin. I've tried skin clinics. I've tried facials, I've 0:02:57.080 --> 0:03:00.880 tried peels, I've tried prescriptions like even drug I've tried 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:05.360 rectain anty biotics, I've tried expensive skincare, I've tried cheap 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:10.440 skin care. You know, basically, if anything or anyone promised 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:12.280 me clear skin, I've tried it. 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:13.280 I've done the thing. 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:17.840 Yeah. And the reason I record this episode today is 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.320 because obviously I'm doing the Doable Glow Up series, which 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:22.360 there is this part in there about skin care, so 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:23.840 you can kind of say this is part of that, 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:25.160 but it's kind of. 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:26.000 Not as well. 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:29.359 But it's because a few weeks ago I started breaking 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:32.760 out again, and I remember like waking up and looking 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:37.160 in the mirror and being like, hell no, not this again. 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.960 I was like, absolutely not this. I decline. 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:48.240 Decline because you know, if you've ever really struggled with 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:50.040 acnea before and you've cleared it up, and then as 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:53.000 soon as you get one more pimple it pops up. 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:56.040 It could be for any reason. You spiral pretty fast 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.520 and pretty hard. Because it is it's triggering. It is 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.480 very very triggering, you know, only you'd be like, what 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:01.920 have I done? 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:02.640 What have I changed? 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.480 How do my skin get back here? And the weird 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:07.720 thing is like, for me in this circumstances, I didn't 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:10.440 change my skin care. You know, I hadn't changed anything 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:12.320 I was putting on my face or a few of 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:13.960 the other things I want to take you guys through. 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.760 But then I realized what it was causing it. This time, 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:19.400 and it was a very very simple fix that you're well, 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:19.919 you won't. 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:23.400 Even believe the fix, but once you understand it, you'll 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:26.640 be like, Okay, it makes sense. So this episode is 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:29.240 for you if you have also struggled with adult acne 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:32.360 and it comes and goes. If you've you're currently really 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:35.159 struggling with it. So if you're currently struggling with it 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:38.120 and you've tried everything, you know, you maybe you've also 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:40.440 spent a lot of money, especially been on TikTok just 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:42.400 spiral and trying to figure out how the hell do 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:44.200 I clear up my acne and nothing's working. 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:47.920 And if you're sick of hearing people say just drink 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:52.960 more water, like no, Barbara, that doesn't work. Like it's okay. Look, 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:53.719 it does contribute. 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:56.359 It's very important, but there's a lot more factors that 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:59.400 go into it, especially when you're a female, especially when 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:01.480 hormones come into play and other things. 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:02.320 I want to go through. 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:05.640 So today I want to be sharing with you guys 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:09.400 my story of my acne from like you know, I 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:11.479 want to recap on the teenagers and how I got 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:14.240 to be someone that had really bad systic acne the 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:18.920 year of her wedding and it was insanely stressful. What 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:22.080 actually made the biggest difference for me and the things 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:24.200 I do whenever I start to have a breakout again, 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:28.320 what causes it and how I fix it fast, and 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:30.599 also why I still break out occasionally, And then the 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.560 weird things that no one else really talks about, even, 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:36.159 like the things that are quite simple to help you 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:38.679 with your acne that I feel like not enough people 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:42.520 talk about it all, and the simple things, and now 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:44.400 my simple routine that I do to keep my skin 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:47.719 under control most of the time if I'm not stupid, 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:49.600 and then do the things I'm about. 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:50.880 To tell you now. 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.240 I'm not going to even give you guys life update 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:54.760 because I feel like that was kind of part of 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:56.920 the intro how I've been breaking out again, So let's 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:58.560 just get into it now. 0:05:58.960 --> 0:05:59.960 My acne story. 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.680 So, as a teenager, I was pretty pretty much like 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.160 everyone else, like we'd all get like pimples here and there. 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:09.520 I'd get little bumps at my forehead, but it wasn't 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:12.680 really like, it wasn't shocking. There were definitely times for me. 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:14.320 I remember, I think I was sixteen, I got a 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.919 lot of acne on my forehead that was not a 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.480 good time. It wasn't fun, and I found back then 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:22.360 a lot of the time was when I was having 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:24.320 too much dairy. I remember coming home from school and 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.600 just sculling milk. I don't know why, a bit random, 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:29.640 but that's what I did. And I felt like as 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:31.400 soon as I kind of cut that out, it did help, 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:33.159 but I was still getting it. 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:33.400 You know. 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:37.800 I used what's it called, oh, proactive, proactive, and it 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:40.760 would bleach my bloody pillow cases, bleach the towels. I'd 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.440 get in trouble, you know, like we were just like 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:45.840 we've always I think our generation too, we were very 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:50.080 much like brought up with the with the proactive. So 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:52.320 for us, as soon as we get breakouts, we go 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:55.039 hard and we just go out our skins so hard, 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:56.960 and that is literally the worst thing you can do. 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:59.720 And it doesn't you just want to like dry them out. 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.039 Like I even remember like hoping I got some burnt 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:05.400 sometimes so I'd burn my pimples off my face. 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:06.720 Like that's not what we want to do. 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:10.960 So yeah, it is like it kind of feels like 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:13.440 second nature for us, for our generation at least, for 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:15.160 when we get a pimple, we want to burn it 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:18.400 with something, you know, like whether it's like an exfoliant 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:23.600 or some crazy bloody cream that's like productive, that's basically bleach. 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:26.080 And then I will tell you in this episode why 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:27.080 that's yeah, the worst. 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:28.680 Thing you can do now. 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:32.160 Luckily enough, after high school and my period kind of 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:33.800 settled down a little bit because I got my period 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:37.000 late too, but my skin was pretty good, like, it 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:39.440 wasn't too bad. I was still very self conscious of 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:39.840 my skin. 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:40.480 I don't know why. 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:42.360 I think because I did have that little bit of acne. 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:45.600 When I was sixteen, I would wear this freakin thick 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:49.280 it was literally it was literally made to cover up tattoos, 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:51.560 and I would wear it on my face. And it's 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:53.160 so sad because I look back and I actually had 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:57.800 beautiful skin at that time, you know. Luckily enough, from 0:07:57.800 --> 0:07:59.720 like eighteen to maybe twenty, I think it was my 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:02.520 skin was good, like, was pretty decent. And then what 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:06.960 I did was I when I moved out of home, right, 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:09.560 I moved out at eighteen, and growing up, I didn't 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:11.160 have a whole lot of food in the house, so 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:13.560 it was pretty hungry, you know, not great, but when 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:15.280 you move out of home, it's like it was like 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:17.560 a smallest board, Like I just wanted to eat anything 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:20.520 and everything, and from that I gained twenty five kilos 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:24.640 in a year. Now, surprisingly, I was, you know, eating 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:26.800 a lot of junk, a lot of early food, and 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:29.360 I didn't really break out that much then, like I 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:31.480 would hear in there, but it wasn't shocking, which is 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:35.200 kind of weird. But what happened was I lost the 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.920 weight in a like healthy way. But then I went 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.680 too far and I decided to do like bodybuilding competition. 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:43.120 So if you ever seen the girls I go on 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.160 stage in the bikinis and they're really really ten and 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:47.440 they got the heels. I did that for like two years, 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:50.439 lost my period. Yeah, so when you do these things, 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.200 you need to get really lean. And when women for 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:55.720 under twelve percent body fat, we lose our period because 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:58.360 our body is like we are not safe enough to 0:08:58.400 --> 0:08:59.760 make a baby. We need more fat than this. 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:00.680 It stops. 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.360 And when your periods stopped for two years, you could 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:07.280 imagine how it came back with an absolute vengeance. Once 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:09.640 it came back, once I put some weight back on, 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:14.720 it was not a good time. My skin was horrific, 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:17.360 Like I can't I get emotionally been talking about it, 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:20.000 like it was so painful to touch, Like it was 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:22.680 the deep cystic acne, and it was all over my 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:25.640 cheeks and my jaw, on my chin hormones, you know, 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:28.640 and I just was like, holy shit. And Ryan and 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:33.559 I we were getting married that year in September, and 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:37.640 so I spent thousands of dollars. I was desperate, just 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:39.559 so desperate. And I'm also trying to save up for 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:41.240 a wedding as well. Mind you you know, I was 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:43.160 working multiple jobs at that time. I was at the 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.439 gym and then doing my makeup business on the weekend, 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:49.600 and you know, I was just desperate, Like I was 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:51.400 going to be getting married. I didn't want to have 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.880 like acne on my wedding day because even the horrible 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:57.800 thing about acne is too likes you can cover the redness, 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:01.360 but you can't fix texture. You can see the bumps, 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:04.000 especially in certain lights. I remember I would avoid certain 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:07.400 lighting when my skin was that bad because I was 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:09.480 so ashamed of it and it was just so painful. 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:12.280 There was so many mornings I'd wake up and put 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:14.320 makeup on and it was that painful to put on. 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:16.840 I would just cry, and it was horrible and it 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:20.440 was really really horrible. And that was all because yeah, 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:22.320 like I was, it was because of the hormones, like 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:25.319 they were just absolutely cooked. So I got that just 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:28.640 But I tried antibiotics. You can get certain antibotics that 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:31.880 more for like acne. That worked a little bit. It 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:33.440 helped a little bit, but there's still every time i'd 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:35.480 hop off of them that it would come back. So 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:39.880 I went on Rachu tane. Yeah, and I really didn't 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:42.160 want to have to go on that, but it did work. 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:43.920 It dried the crap. 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:46.520 Out of me, like my skin everything, and had like 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:48.960 side effects because you can get side effects of depression 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.040 and things. So it was that this is like the 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:54.960 last resort type of thing, like and honestly, if I 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:57.079 just knew what I know now, it would have really 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:00.439 really helped, you know. I went to the dermatologist everything 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:02.160 they were like, yeah, you need to go and racutine. 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:06.920 So it was like dire's situation. But look, wedding day 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:09.199 skin was clear, Thank the Lord. 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:12.120 So it is what it is. But again I would 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:12.840 I went off of it. 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:14.080 I think I was on it for nearly a year 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:16.000 and then when I got off of it and my 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:18.280 skin stayed clear for maybe another couple of years and 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:21.839 then it came back again. Now it wasn't like I 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:23.760 wouldn't have It's hard to say that it was as 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:25.920 bad as it was. It was bad, but I can't 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:28.480 remember it was exactly as bad as what it was before. 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:32.640 And again my confidence took a hit. It's it's not 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:36.280 what you want, you know. And I remember it was 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:38.439 on and off up until and I remember like hitting 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:41.000 thirty and being like are we done yet? 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:42.680 Like is this over? 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:46.520 And the time my skin was at its best was 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.960 actually when I went to a natural path and really 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:52.360 focused on my gut health. And it's very much true 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:54.720 that your skin has a huge tie to your gut. 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:58.160 If you've got sluggish digestion and poor digestion and things 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:01.199 like that, you will see it in your skin. So 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:03.480 things like if you're eating too fast, not eating enough 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:05.920 all that. I'll get into that soon. But when I 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:09.280 was following a proper protocol with my natural path, my. 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:13.679 Skin looked amazing. It was it was good, you know. 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:16.360 And the thing with my skin type is I'm an 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:16.960 oily girl. 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:19.920 Like I'm a very oily skin person, which is great 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:21.600 for like anti aging, Like it is good to have 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:22.440 oily skin for that. 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:25.840 But this also means my paws get clogged very very easily. 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:28.880 So if I don't wash my makeup off properly anything 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:31.080 like that. It's like there's a lot of products I 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:32.560 can't use which I didn't know about, and I'll talk 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:34.200 to you about that soon. But there's a lot of 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:36.559 products I can't use because I will break out because 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:40.040 of the poor clogging ingredients. Hot tip number one. So 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:44.960 for me, I am always before I buy anything anything, I. 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:48.000 Will be looking into the ingredients. You bet you now. 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:50.880 The big lesson here is adult acne is usually a 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:54.240 stacking problem. Sometimes it can just be one thing. It 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.120 could be a product you're using, and I'll tell you 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:58.240 how to find out what products to use and stuff soon. 0:12:58.320 --> 0:12:59.600 But usually it. 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:02.200 Can be a combination of things. And it's like putting 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:05.480 gasoline on the fire. So now when I do break 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:08.120 out like I have recently, instead of asking what's causing 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:11.719 my acne, I ask what have I changed? What has 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:15.000 changed in my life for my acne to come back? 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:18.360 Because you bet there will be something that you're either 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:20.839 using or doing that is causing it. 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:21.559 And it does. 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.040 It usually feels like it's out of our control. But 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:26.880 once you learn these things I'm about to take you through, 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:28.120 you'll understand. 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:29.040 Once you get. 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.839 These like what can affect your acne, you're going to 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:33.800 actually understand it so much better and you'll be able 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.480 to look at what you're doing now and be like, oh, 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:40.560 I get it. You know now the first thing that 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:44.840 can cause adult acne is poor clogging ingredients. Now, this 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:49.400 step alone, on its own, even if you're doing other 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:51.160 things that aren't great and you're getting acne from it, 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:53.959 this step alone will help so incredibly much, Like I 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:55.000 cannot tell you now. 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:57.079 I remember it was a few years ago. I was 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:57.560 listening to a. 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:01.200 Podcast and it was like the bread was called Clear Stems, 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:03.439 so it's like an American brand, it's like an acne brand. 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:06.360 And I was listening to this podcast and they basically 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:10.240 explained why certain products will break you out and like 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:12.800 basically poor cloggers and what they do and what they are. 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:17.000 So basically there's a list of ingredients that is in 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:20.560 a lot of cosmetics, in a lot of skin care, 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:23.040 in a lot of hair care, which yes, that counts 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:27.920 to I'll let you know, that will clog your paws, 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.000 that has potential to clog your paws. Now, if you're 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:32.560 someone like me who has oily skin and I do 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.120 get clogged paws quite easily, it's a. 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:36.960 Big no no. It's a no no, you know. 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:39.800 And then there's people like my cousin Sammy, Like she's 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:43.840 got drier skin, so for her usually. 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:43.880 It's not this. 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:46.640 But I'm not saying this is again like everyone's different, 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:48.960 but for her usually it's like more of a hormonal, 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:52.080 stressed type of thing, or a sugar balance thing, which 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:55.320 I'll talk about. But for me, this is so important 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:57.720 and for anyone if you break out, I want you 0:14:57.800 --> 0:14:59.880 to pull everything out of your drawers and your cover 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:04.040 and out of your shower and you're going to start. 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:05.360 Checking for poor cloggers. 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:08.560 Now there's a huge list of ingredients, and I'm not 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:10.600 going to tell you to remember these, like I remember 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:12.320 a lot now if by heart. So if I'm at 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:15.000 Priceline or something, I'm quickly having a look. If I 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:16.680 see a few things, I'll put it straight back, like 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:19.760 if it se this coconut oil. If there's different type 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:23.160 of alcohols, there's like certain like heavy esters and butters 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:23.760 like shade butter. 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:25.240 That's a no, that's a hard no. 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:27.520 For me, and they are in a lot of different things, 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:29.760 and it doesn't mean that these ingredients are bad and 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:31.560 it doesn't mean they're going to break everyone out. And 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:34.640 there is other ingredients that aren't technically poor cloggers, which 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:37.360 I'll get into, that potentially can be breaking you out 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:40.880 as well. So things like products with fragrance in them. 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:44.440 Now that's going to relate to your skin barrier, which 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:47.640 I'll talk about next, but there is going to be 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:51.640 other types of things, usually fragrance that can also break 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:55.160 you out, or even things that are like film, like 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:58.000 film coating products. So a lot of things that are 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:00.920 in primers you need to be careful with as well. 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:03.480 But there's a there's a hack for this, and I'll 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:08.400 help you. So, for example, I listened to this podcast 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:09.600 and then I went home and I. 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:11.120 Went through all the things I was using. 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.360 I pulled out all my skincare, pulled out all my makeup, 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:15.760 I pulled out my hair care. Because yes, if you 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:18.840 were someone that breaks out on their cheeks and you 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:22.600 sleep with your hair out, chances are your hair conditioner 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.680 has poor clogging ingredients in it, and then you're sleeping 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:28.400 on your hair for about eight hours a night. You 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:32.000 bet you're going to break out. And there's even we're 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:35.600 going to also be looking at our washing powders, because yes, 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:39.440 our washing powders can also you know, clog our paws, 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:42.080 which was what was happening to me recently and I 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:44.560 had to switch because I didn't realize that the washing 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:48.720 powder I recently got a couple months ago caused me breakouts. 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:51.240 Yeah yeah, good times, good times. 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:53.720 So all you have to do is grab all your 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:55.720 ingredients out and if the ingredients are on the back, 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:56.560 take a photo. 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:57.880 You can literally chuck it into chat. 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:01.560 YOUBT and just say hey, is this got poor clogging 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.960 ingredients or acne triggers? But another good way to do it. 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:08.800 There's a lot of like poor clogging calculators online. I 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:10.960 would probably even love to if I managed to build 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:13.159 you guys one in this episode. I will link it 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:15.359 below because I can build you one because I'm a 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:18.679 little coding AI nerd now, which is another episode, but 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:23.320 just look up poor clogging. It's called poor clogging calculator, 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:26.840 poor clogging checkers. There's one on clear Stem. There's a 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:28.679 few different ones and you just copy and paste, make 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:31.359 sure you get the full ingredients list, copy paste it 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:33.040 in there and it will tell you if it's safe 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:35.439 or not. Now I want you to also do your 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:38.000 hair care because again that can be breaking you out 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:41.080 around your temples, on your cheeks, like even on your 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:44.040 back and things like that. Check those your body wash 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:47.159 if you get body acne. For me, I tend not 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:49.400 to get body acne, but I can get a couple 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:52.040 of pimples on like the top of my back, and 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:54.600 usually that was with me if I don't wash out 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:57.480 my conditioner enough. So I'll usually wash my hair and 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:01.000 then I'll like cleanse my back in the showers because 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:02.400 I go to the gym and sometimes if I leave 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:03.800 my crop top on for a few hours, I can 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:06.240