Does your acne flare-up in the two weeks before your period and then settle down once your period arrives? If it does then you’re not alone. This is called premenstrual acne and this flare-up pattern is the most common one we see in our patients. Its most common cause is an imbalance between two of your hormones – progesterone and …
How to Know if My Pimples Are Hormone Caused or by Other Factors
A question we are regularly asked on Instagram and by patients is “ How can you tell if your pimples are caused by hormones or by something else?” And this is a really important question because the answer determines what the treatment is going to be. So here are seven signs to look out for that confirm your acne is …
Hormonal Imbalance Acne and How to Balance
This means that no matter how clean you make your diet, how toxin free your skincare products are, or how many topical treatments and peels you do, you won’t get rid of your hormonal acne. To fix hormonal acne you need to uncover the hormones in your body that are out of balance. And a pretty obvious clue your acne …
Is hormonal acne itchy? Yes – Here is how to lower it
Hormonal acne is often caused by the following factors: An excess of sebum (oil) production in the sebaceous (oil) glands of the skin. Normally the oil helps to protect the skin and keep it smooth and supple, but when something causes it to be produced in excess this causes acne Dry skin cells clogging pores Bacteria inside the sebaceous glands …
Top 6 Reasons Why Hormonal Acne Won’t Go Away
You’ve cut out dairy, gluten, and sugar, you rarely drink alcohol, you’ve spent a fortune on Zinc and Vitex and your diet is a healthy balance of protein, carbs and veggies, but you’re still breaking out!!?? This is a common thing to see in our clinic, people who have been trying desperately to self-treat their acne based on what they …
Foods to Avoid When You Have Hormonal Acne
Now if you’re like the hundreds of young women I’ve consulted with then you’ve probably already started to clean up your diet. And rightly so! It seems pretty logical that if you put junk food into your body then your skin is going to reflect this. If your diet is made up of greasy, high carb, high sugar foods then …
What Hormonal Acne Looks Like and Ways to Check
Do you find that your acne flares around the same time of your cycle each month? Is it painful red papules, pustules, and deep cysts that mostly appear around your chin and jaw? Did going on hormonal birth control partially or totally clear it up? If you answered yes to any of the above, then it’s highly likely that your …
List of Herbs to Take After Stopping Birth Control
If you are like many women who’ve been put on the pill for a variety of hormonal ‘imbalances’ and have been on it for years, you might be nervous about stopping the pill in case your symptoms return and rightly so! The way the OCP works is by shutting down the communication between your brain and ovaries as the synthetic …
Seven Best Options for Hormonal Acne Spot Treatment
Acne flare-ups are big stress when they happen. Nothing makes you feel more self-conscious than a big juicy red pimple on your face. And when you’re rebalancing your hormones naturally it’s not unusual for your acne to flare up from time to time because hormones don’t rebalance overnight. So, it’s good to have a spot treatment option ready to go …
How Hormonal Chin Acne and Jawline Acne Can Flare Up?
Two of the most common areas people struggle with and where hormonal acne appears are along the jaw and around the chin due to the clogging up of pores. The reason for this is because these two areas contain hormonally sensitive hair follicles. Think of men, the jaw and chin are where their beard grows. Hair follicles and oil (sebaceous) …
Why Would Women Have Low Female Hormones?
Acne is something we often think of as being an issue for teenagers but surprisingly most acne sufferers, particularly the hormonal type, are adult women. The reason is hormone-sensitive cells like the oil glands along the ‘beard line’ can become overstimulated and there are two main triggers for this… Too much male sex hormone (androgens) Too little female hormones Some …
How to Cure Female Hormonal Acne?
Female hormonal acne isn’t just an issue for teenagers. Surprisingly just as many young women in their 20’s experience female hormonal acne as teenagers (up to 80%). And although acne isn’t a life-threatening condition, it can be a life-ruining. Every day in my office I see young women whose acne issues are ruling their lives. They tell me they feel …