Re: Bumps, Toners and Ingredients lists

[Guest guest]

I've been thinking about getting a water filter on my

faucet. Another one of my one hundred assumptions

about possible triggers revolved around the chlorine

or other metals in my tap water (this condition only

became obvious when I moved to San Francisco--I

figured environment may have played a role in putting

it over the top from subclinical to active). When I

was little, I used to get horrible " rashes " on my face

from swimming pools in the summer. Always around my

nose or chin, areas that received a lot of friction

from my wiping water away.

--- Leah Dwyer wrote:

>

> Hi,

> Just a quick one to say that I have been using a

> Begoun's

> (www.cosmeticscop.com) dry skin toner as a cleanser

> at night and in the

> morning for three weeks now and I have noticed a big

> difference in my

> skin. I have also been only using bottled water on

> my face to rinse at

> night and in the morning after the toner. I use the

> toner to take off

> the day and night. I don't wear makeup anymore. It

> requires more

> cleansing to get makeup off and the more I have to

> touch my skin the

> more inflamed it gets. I have noticed that when I

> use bottled water the

> little bumps on my forehead and on my cheeks have

> dramatically receded.

> I can still see a faint circular patch of redness on

> my forehead where

> the seb derm is but I have been using an antifungal

> to wipe out the

> flakes (plain moisturiser does nothing). I am seeing

> a new derm in

> March so I will report what she had to say.

>

> By the way, I can't recommend a Begoun's website

> and books enough!!

> She has taught me how to read an ingredients list

> and which products

> are worth trying. I have saved so much time, money

> and skin by taking

> her advice. Her book " Don't go to the cosmetics

> counter without me "

> really takes the guess work out of what is in a

> product, whether it

> truely is for sensitive skin and will it do what it

> says it will. I

> find this info to be of the utmost importance as a

> rosacean. I don't

> want to pick up or listen to a salesperson tell me

> that such and such a

> product is for sensitive skin when in fact it's

> ingredients list says

> the complete opposite. I also quite agree with Dr Sy

> 's opinion that

> the word 'natural' is a marketing ploy. I also find

> that hypoallergenic

> and dermatologist tested means very little as well.

> Leah

>

>

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[Guest guest]

I second that about a Begoun!