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Avoid parabens, phthalates, essential oils and sulfates in skincare products for tweens and teens. Use gentle formulations with active ingredients instead.

Acne breakouts during pregnancy can happen to anyone. It doesn’t matter if you’ve battled acne your entire life or haven’t seen a zit in years. When you are pregnant, an increase in hormones causes your skin to produce more sebum. This increased sebum leads to oiliness that eventually clogs your pores, leading to inflammation and…

After visiting so many doctors, trying different treatments and products, I have came up with an affordable solution for my acne woes. You can solve your acne too.

This writeup is more applicable for acne / acne-prone / oily / sensitive skin. The main 2 reasons why we are encouraged to tone are that toners serve to :1) remove the impurities that can still be lingering after washing with a cleanser,2) balance the skin pH. Below, I’m listing some of the reasons why…

I would not go for agnes treatment as it is an extreme treatment that destroys the sebaceous glands. My worry is that it will lead to dry skin permanently. Besides, the clinical evidence shows a 16.7% relapse of acne after one year of the final Agnes Treatment.

How I developed a huge Cystic Acne I haven’t had the chance to indulge in durian for a while as I was overseas. In late Dec, I finished about half a Mao Shan Wang in one night. The durian was pretty big. The next day when I woke up, to my horror, I saw a huge cystic…