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 clear it up? If you answered yes to any of the above, then a hormonal imbalance is highly likely the …
Hormonal Acne: Causes, Treatment Options and Prevention
If you’re reading this, it’s because you’ve decided that the birth control pill, Accutane/Roaccutane, antibiotics and topicals aren’t the long-term solution to your hormonal acne problems. While conventional medical treatments usually do clear up hormonal acne, they’re just Band-Aid treatments because they don’t actually treat its underlying cause. So, fixing hormonal acne becomes a frustrating ongoing challenge until you understand …
Seven Best Options for Hormonal Acne Spot Treatment
Acne flare-ups are a big stress when they happen, and they get itchy. 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 …
The complete guide to fixing hormonal chin acne
Hormonal chin acne Have you ever wondered why you primarily only get chin acne? Do you notice that you get more pimples on the chin than anywhere else on your skin? If you answered ‘Yes’ then read on and discover everything you need to know about chin acne and fixing it naturally. A quick google search will tell you that …
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 …
Why Topical Treatments Don’t Fix Hormonal Acne
If you suffer from hormonal acne, then no doubt you’ve tried countless topical treatments in an effort to clear your skin. But what you found was that they might have helped reduce your acne a bit, but nowhere near enough to make your skin pimple free. So, in this blog post, you’re going to discover why topical treatments don’t fix …
The Best Hormonal Acne Supplements To Take Before You Stop The Birth Control Pill
If you’ve tried coming off the birth control before you might have experienced a massive flare-up in hormonal acne. Or if you’re thinking about stopping the birth control pill you might be worried you’re going to break out in acne again. But no matter what it is the good news is there are some simple supplements you can take …
How Hormone Testing Can Identify What Supplements You Need
If you have hormonal acne, I’m sure you’ve already taken some supplements. You might be or have been taking Vitex/chaste tree, zinc, DIM, probiotics, evening primrose oil, a hair, skin, and nails formula, a liver detox formula, or a host of other supplements. But can I ask you… Why did you choose those supplements? Was it because a friend told …
Why Testing Your Hormones Is Critical If You Want To Eliminate Hormonal Acne
It always puzzles me how doctors (GPs, dermatologists and gynecologists) give young women hormonal acne treatments without ever testing to see what their hormone levels are. So today I’m going to go through with you why it’s so important to get your hormones tested if you want to eliminate your hormonal acne for good. It seems pretty straightforward to me …
Where do you start when you’ve got hormonal acne?
If you suffer with hormonal acne you’re probably wondering where do you start when you want to get rid of it? Being a specialist in the natural treatment of hormonal acne I’m going to walk you through where you start and what are your options are. Step 1. The first step is to consider your options, and there are two …