My Tips for CLEAR SKIN How I Healed My Acne...

Hey guys, it's Caitlin and welcome to another video

Today I'm going to be sharing my top 5 skin and acne care tips for the day with you all

I have gotten a few requests to do a skin care routine and that video will be coming to you all shortly

But before I post that, I do want to just say that I feel like a lot of skin care routines are just listing a lot of products that people use

And while what you put on your face is important, I do think that there are tips that you can do to improve your skin health and overall health

before you go and spend a lot of money on a specific product that may not work for you in the end

So I thought I would just do this quick little video and share my personal experiences with you all

I have been blessed to have never had terrible acne where I would need to see a doctor for it

However, I have always had issues with acne and I think everyone in my family is pretty acne prone

And as far as I can remember, I've always had like a pimple on my face and it went about pretty bad

My problem areas were definitely my T-bone and I would get bumps all across my forehead as well

So I had pimples here and there towards the end of grade school and towards the end of high school and my first few years of college is when I would say my acne got pretty bad

It was something that never inhibited me from going out and I never felt incredibly self-conscious about it to the point where I didn't want to have social life

But I didn't feel the best about it and I decided that I needed to actually do things in order to try to improve my skin

I would cycle through a variety of different acne products but none of them ever seemed to really work for me in the long term

So I decided that I would have to look towards my lifestyle and make changes in that to see if that would make more of a difference

So my first two tips are pretty simple but I think that they need to be said

So the first one is just stop touching your face. For me, I didn't even realize how much I actually touched my face during the day

And every time you touch your face, you're just putting more dirt on your skin and allowing stuff to smear in your pores

And so I made a conscious effort to try to reduce that and my skin did improve some

My second tip is to practice with hygiene. Now I'm not saying that everyone's acne is really gross and dirty or anything like that at all

But you can practice better hygiene tips that will help reduce your acne

So personally for me, that was establishing a skincare routine and sticking to it

Rigidly not sticking, washing my face at all. And then also just changing my pillowcase more frequently

I've changed it once a week now and that really works for me. So my final three tips are the things that most dramatically affected my acne and improved my skin health overall

And I just want to go in chronological order because these are the steps that I took

But you can do these all at the same time or you can do them in any order you like

It really doesn't matter. So the first thing I did that I noticed improved my skin was starting to actually exercise

When you exercise, you're obviously sweating and it does help clear up your pores even though you feel kind of gross in the moment

But I noticed that my acne did get a lot better after I was just living a healthier lifestyle

So after that, I started to actually drink more water. And this helped dramatically

I don't think you can realize how under hydrated they are. But now I drink between two and three liters of water per day

And it may seem like a lot but really that's what you should be drinking in a day

And it's really important to drink more water and exercise more. I noticed that my skin is just so much healthier and I felt so much better too

But I still had some little patchy bumps that were on my forehead

They weren't really as red as before but they didn't really disappear. Then finally my final tip which I think is the most important one and needs to be in any way is to go vegan

I was what you would say plant based throughout this whole time when I started to exercise and drink more water

But my acne didn't finally disappear until I eliminated dairy products from my life

And I really didn't think that dairy was heading down to an effect on my skin

But afterwards about a month or so when the detox period had kind of ended and all of the icky animal products were out of my system

I noticed that my skin was so much better. And now I still get an occasional pimple here and there

But really it's nowhere near as bad as it used to be. Now I'm not saying you can just go vegan automatically

Your acne is going to disappear. I eat a high carb low fat vegan diet

And I do think you can attract and take lower health health but overall skin health

But I think that the biggest thing for me health health was to avoid processed oils

Oil is not a health food even though people want to think that it is

It just requires you to be the original plant source. So you're getting all the fats but you're not getting any of the nutrients or health benefits with it

I definitely noticed that when I eat food that has more oil in them I do tend to break out more

Even if I just eat like one juicy meal I do notice that my skin just feels a lot more oily and dirty

But when I eat food that has a higher fat content in their whole form like melted avocados I don't really experience that at all

However I do think that you need to continue to eliminate oil from your diet. When I go out to eat at a restaurant I don't ask for no oil in my food

I still avoid oil like it's a plague. I still eat food that contains oil in it like granola on an all day basis

And I do notice when I eat out more or eat more oil my skin gets worse and it does get better when I eliminate it

However I'm not going to continue to cut those foods out of my diet because I enjoy them

And at the end of the day a pimple is just a pimple

Sometimes I think people can be a little too obsessed about their skin health

And it's really important to remember that just because you heal your acne and your skin becomes a lot healthier

doesn't mean that you're never going to get a pimple again in your life

Like everyone else my body is constantly changing and my hormone levels are rising and falling and changing according to the time of the month or whatever

And so some things are better than others. Well I can be okay with that

I think that everyone should accept the fact that some people are more genetically gifted and have cleaner skin

Whereas some people do have acne problems. And even if you adopt a high carb low fat vegan diet and you exercise and you drink so much water

some of it is hormonal and it is very hard to control

But that doesn't make you less of a person. It doesn't lower your self worth or your beauty

Like you just have acne. And I would not be friends with someone because they have acne

And anyone who does have acne because of your acne is really not worth your time

Because in reality your skin is your outer shell and it doesn't relate to who you are as a person at all

I just think it's so stupid. And yes like it makes sense to worry about your acne and to care about your physical appearance

But at the end of the day you shouldn't let that stop you from enjoying your life and going out and just following your happiness

But those are my 5 tips that really helped Madison improve my skin

And I thought I would share them all with you. I will be doing a finger routine and that will be coming soon

I will have it linked in the description of the video once that video gets published

If you are interested in watching it. But I hope you guys have a lovely day

And I thank you all so much for watching and I will talk to you later. Bye