Surprise, surprise ~ modern life isn't so great for our skin health!
But the root cause I am seeing from almost all skin issues is the same.
The same thing causes both acne, aging, hyperpigmentation, rosacea and even eczema.
Inflammation!
We have all heard inflammation is bad, but really understanding what is going on lets us rid our lives of its dastardly effect on us.
In our daily lives we get inflammation from a variety of factors ~ stress, UV rays, pollution, chemical skincare and high sugar diets are just a handful of the factors that can cause inflamed skin.
Most products on the market actually make inflammation worse. But why is inflammation bad for our skin?
The above image shows inflammation, and it puts the skin into stress.
Inflammation can continue at a low gradient, barely noticeable unless we get a flare up ...
Once our skin gets a habit of inflammation, and we might think this is "just how my skin is", but I promise you it's completely healable. Everything we ingest or touch, including the air and the water, contains inflammatory triggers. Inflammation is the body's response to irritation and a primary trigger for acne, premature aging, redness, enlarged pores, psoriasis, rosacea, and dermatitis.
From the overuse of harsh skincare ingredients that break our skin's boundary combined with other lifestyle factors, many of our complexions are feeling compromised and more sensitive than ever.
Modern skincare uses refined, denatured oils, chemical stabilizers, fillers and other ingredients that are so far from natural to our cells that our cells rebel and become inflamed.
How we mitigate it
Although we can only control our environment so much, there are ways we can mitigate skin inflammation. Like using an approach that repairs the skin's matrix and is rich in fresh antioxidants that destroy inflammation, bacteria, and other misbalances in the skin's microbiome. This creates an environment that switches on regenerative genes in your skin, allowing your skin to grow back in an ever-improving repair cycle.
By reducing inflammation and letting our skin recover, it becomes more resilient. Many aggressive, chemical products weaken your skin and making it vulnerable and leading to more inflammation. The longer the skin is in an inflamed condition, the more damage to collagen and elastin, which leads to thin, crepey skin, age spots, wrinkles and eventually deeper grooves.
The goal with skincare is to soothe and reduce inflammation, which allows the skin cells to regenerate healthy and radiant. Each of our products restore your skin's boundary, nourish and balance and also are packed full of potent, natural, fresh actives that reduce inflammation and heal your skin.
Where to start
If the inflammation is showing up mostly as visible redness, I have written that one out properly in redness isn't sensitivity, it's a signal. What the red physically is, why so many products sold for sensitive skin make it worse, and why rosacea in particular is usually a gut problem showing on a face.
If your skin is visibly reactive, red, or flushing easily, start on the calm redness and inflammation page. That is the whole protocol in one place.
If the inflammation is showing up as congestion and breakouts instead, F8 Angel Face Fast Recovery Serum is where I would start you, paired with F21 Angel Face Rejuvenation Cream. The congestion and breakouts page has the rest of it.
And if you are not sure which of those is you, start from your concern rather than guessing at products.
