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Washing my face with Honey: redirection

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I wrote about washing my face with honey three weeks ago. At first I loved it-my skin had never felt better. Then-and then-it all went south. Worst my face has ever been. My forehead was covered in little bumps, chin was suffering from that yucky cystic stuff. I reminded myself that there is supposed to be a "purging" period, but after a few days of sticking to the routine and seeing no improvement I threw in the towel. I wanted to stay as natural as possible so I went with Burt's Bees (which you can find at Walmart) and I love their line. The list of ingredients isn't as scary and it smells nice.

The face was still looking bad, though, so I decided to use what I had learned from reading "crunchy" blogs and added tea tree oil, baking soda, jojoba oil and honey (yep) to my arsenal. Here's the routine:

#1 Wash face with Burt's Bees facial cleanser.
#2 Make a baking soda paste and apply it to problem areas. Let it sit for five minutes.
#3 Wash off baking soda, use Burt's Bees acne toner all over face.
#4 Apply tea tree oil to problem areas. Let dry.
#5 Apply Burt's Bees moisturizer during the day and jojoba oil at night.
#6 Spot apply honey to face at night. Cover with band aid and leave overnight.

It's working. My face looks better, and the honey/baking soda/tea tree oil is actually working with the cystic acne (I've never had anything reduce/prevent them before). It's a bit time consuming but definitely worth it considering the extreme angst I was in.

I also looked more closely at my diet, which had suffered a bit. I'm trying to clean it up and that seems to help as well. I haven't identified any "trigger" foods but cutting down a bit on carbs (I'm still eating between 150-200 grams) and keeping my protein intake high seems to help. I'm also taking supplements that are supposed to help with skin issues: vitex, cod liver oil, and zinc in my regular multivitamin.

So there you are. When I went online I couldn't find many stories of honey washing failure so I figured I needed to write one, so people know they aren't alone and have an idea of how to fix the problem.

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