When the beard or the border area becomes inflamed, pimples or hard bumps form. It’s usually caused by an ingrown hair. The ingrown hair is the result of failure to clear clipped hair. These small hair particles can deposit in the follicles and become compacted. This leads to inflammation that can become infected and results in the acne like appearance in the beard.
In addition, regular acne can be made worse by the failure to remove the build up of dead skin cells and debris. This debris is a breeding ground for bacteria and other microscopic baddies. When the debris accumulates, it can clog pores and lead to acne breakouts.
Ayurvedic skincare and the best over the counter acne treatment
It’s safe to say that everyone is looking for the holy grail– the best acne face wash. The one, cheap treatment that eradicates acne in totality, erases all signs of post acne scars, leaving the skin looking like a super model and costs under a few bucks. Oh, and lasts for months with zero side-effects. Maybe I left off a few but that’s the gist. Unfortunately, this isn’t that acne face wash, but I try not to make perfect the enemy of pretty damn good. And this product is pretty damn good.
When I’m at a crossroads for anything in life, I order Chinese food and get a fortune cookie. I follow the advice to the letter. It may explain why my life is full of fits, sputters and jumps. Anyways, the same held true with picking the next topic for this blog to cover. The fortune cookie said: “discuss hormonal acne on your blog,” and who am I to disagree with a cookie.
This is me right after the Chinese buffet. Of course, thirty minutes later I’m ready to eat again. Go figure.
This post will be about oil-pulling acne techniques and how it relates to helping curb inflmmation. Unfortunately, that will involve using Ayurvedic techniques once more. For those of you who may find the vernacular of this post not suited to your tastes or interests, this is the head’s up. For those that read the last post, I’m sure you’re all getting closer to being members of some Justice League or neo-Avengers superhero elite club or maybe at least the anti-villain in the story you’ve written. Kudos.
A quick backtrack
Now, before I get on track, I need to twirl around the beaten path a time or two, so bear with me.
I empathize with everyone experiencing acne. It sucks. When you have it, your life feels like it’s on standstill. Social life? Say what? LOL I know. Believe me, I know. So it may seem like I’m having a bit of fun with this blog and with some of the real meat yet to be delivered, my internal dialogue rages about dropping the goods so to speak. The treasure chest with all the holy grail techniques that were discovered long ago.
My guide has some of them, but it’s more like an outline with some basic ideas. The real top-shelf material is coming, but I can’t release it all at once or the Internet will break and a chasm between dimensions will open and nothing will ever be the same again.
The reality is there are so many different ideas, products and interesting practices that can help. If you are reading this blog in its early inception, you are like a pioneer, waiting with galling patience to find out what’s over the next hill as you pass all the sun bleached remnants of what’s come before. If you’re reading this blog in a year, you’ll likely have an acne fighting tool box that overfloweth into a tool shed.
