We wanted to share a personal post with everyone regarding skin problems. Both of us have struggled with skin issues since we were teens. There were good years and bad years with skin breakouts. Although, Michelle still struggled with smooth glowing skin. Lori was fortunate enough to have only a few breakouts here and there. Leading Michelle to try everything in the book from skin creams, face serums, laser treatments, microdermabrasion, peels, and topical products. Nothing helped!
This lead to many fights between the two of us because Michelle still had skin issues and Lori didn’t suffer as much. The frustration came because we did everything the same pretty much. We ate the same, exercised the same, drink the same things, etc. So why was this only happening to Michelle?? Still to this day, we do not know why??? UGH
Then over the years as we research why this was happening, we realized the core problem was coming from the inside. So it did not matter what we were putting on our face, so we felt guilty for all the money spent on fixing the problem. Lori would still use majority of the skin products that I bought, though I experimented with more. But lesson learned, well sort of.
So Michelle’s face slowly started to clear up a little and both our diets changed a little too. We were heading more to a strict vegetarian diet, with no peanuts, no dairy and no wheat/gluten. We were becoming more aware of how the food we ate affected us. We read tons of books and articles as well as did more personal experimentation.
Over the years we have tried many different face products and makeup and still trying to figure out what our skin likes. We know how important your diet is and what you put on your face, so learning about our gluten sensitives and choosing a vegan lifestyle made sense. Right?
Well we still were not pleased with how our skin looked. We did more research and tried more products and diet changed more. We even did all types of cleanses and detox programs to help clean us out, so to speak.
Then we came across the RAW food lifestyle and were thrilled. We loved the whole concept of eating pure natural foods that come from mother earth herself, and have not been heated or altered in any way. Everyone talked about the glow you get from eating raw, so this benefit we were most excited about.
Now we threw ourselves right into the raw world, because at the time we thought, why not? Now looking back on it, we should of slowly made the change because we always had weak stomach and digestive systems. Our biggest issues has always been stomach problems, which is why we have skin problems. It is our bodies way of telling us something is not right. But eating a diet 95% raw, we were still not reaping the benefits of glowing skin.
The first few months we both noticed positive changes. Although going into our second year of eating raw, both our skins are breaking out. This is has been hard for Lori due to her past of clearer skin, and this just made Michelle more frustrated. We thought we were on the right track.
But again we did research and realized our bodies are stirring up deep old toxins from inside us from having poor habits in the past. Kimberly Synder did a post on how your body can continue to go through detox periods. So here we are again trying to learn about our bodies.
Some of our other favorite blogs discussed skin products and their issues. Sarma from One Lucky Duck recently discussed on her blog about her daily face routine and the products she loves. Another post was from Jenna from Eat, Live, Run who was given a face product to review, which she liked it. The brand Jenna mentioned was Avocate skin care by Morris Organics.
Currenly we are using Aubrey Organics. This company is organic and gluten free, which is why we chose it. We have liked it, but like I mentioned before we are both breaking out. We trying to decide what to do, what to try next. What else could we take out of our diet? Do we try another product?
We do use Kimbery’s Envision The Solution. We love this product. Everything from the company’s mission, purpose, and the ingredients. Our face seems to like it too!! We use it morning and night. The great thing about this product is you do not need all those different products, like face cream, lotion, eye cream, because it is all in one. Oh yay!
Well so we are still on our journey of finding out what our skin, and bodies, like with raw foods and pure natural products. So sit back and enjoy us we share our struggles and triumphs with our skin. We do believe in the benefits of our raw foods and just believe our body is taking its time in healing. Looking back at what we ate and all, we can see why our bodies are still cleaning out old toxins. LOL. And unfortunately for most, those toxins come out through the skin.
Any skin products or stories you would like to share, we would love to hear about them? Thanks
To Beautiful skin,
The Twins
L&M
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