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Top 10 products for your hormonal acne

We’re often asked what our Top 10 products are to treat hormonal acne.   No need to keep asking.  Here are the best products according to our Sydney naturopath. Our top 10 products we recommend for hormonal acne 1. Vitex Vitex helps boost progesterone levels.  Low levels can lead to androgen excess which amplifies testosterone production in the skin and can …

How to Treat Period Pimples and Breakouts

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 – How to Balance Hormones For Acne

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?

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 clear it up? If you answered yes to any of the above, then a hormonal imbalance is highly likely the …

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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 big stress when they happen, and it gets 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 treatment …

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 …