Dear Alice, you can follow the recommended guidelines after exploring said considerations:
1. are there significant seasonal changes where you live??
2. Your Nutritional status [diet] - do you take high
carbohydrate diet?
3. Any lab investigations done [hormone levels]
4. Any use of Personal Kit? [Soaps, cleaner, creams]
5. Any mental stress and/or Addiction?
In the mean time start incorporating following Dietary Regime in your daily routine;
. Avoid oily, spicy, fried, and left over food, too much exposure to heat, dry and windy climate, stress.
. Avoid newly harvested cereals, black gram, radish, sour and heavy substances, milk, curd, sugarcane products, and jaggery, sleeping during day right after meals
. Take old barley, wheat, brown rice, green vegetables, boiled and filtered water to drink, green gram, pigeon pea, masura, patola, kakamachi, garlic, cucumber, bitter dietary substances, old ghee, sesame oil, nimba oil, cow’s urine, good sleep, along with regular morning walk of 45 minutes.
. Don’t allow to dehydrate yourself, thus avoid alcohol and caffeine containing beverages.
i.Triphala helps balance all the doshas and clean up the digestive system [take 5gm with lukewarm water at bed time [night]
ii.Avocado is good source of
Vitamin E and Vitamin C: thus natural moisturizer and anti inflammatory fruit.
iii.Clean the area with Apple vinegar, Leave it for one hour and then wash with lukewarm water
iv.Tomatoes having
astringent and antioxidant properties.[use them as facial masks]
v.Lemons [ for blackheads rub lemon juice over them each night], Apples (anti oxidant), Pears (regulate pH balance), Banana (
probiotic)
vi.Spinach: contains
Vitamin A [most important vitamin for the skin] and also helps to stop the production of sebum [ who suffer from oily skin]
vii.Cucumber: since both Vitamin A and C are found in cucumbers [reason of use in
skin care products].
viii.Raw carrots: not only are an excellent source of vitamins, but also of
magnesium and minerals. [both cucumber and carrot can be eaten and used as face mask]
ix.Kale contains high amount of antioxidants which can reverse skin damage and provide with calcium, fiber, omega-3 fatty acids which help to reduce inflammation.
x.Use face mask with multani mitti, chandan, neem leaves powder, haridra with lemon and honey.
xi.Natural medicine [prescription drugs] available are: Maha Thiktakam kashayam, Patoladi kashayam, Maha Thiktaka Gritam, Guggulu Thiktaka kashayam / Gritam, Saptasaram kashayam, Khadira Arishtam, Kumari Asavam Sarivadi Asavam / Arishtam, Avipattikar Churna, Haridra Khanda, Chandanadi Lepa, Multani Mitti.