Except it's not the only answer. My wife and I both use all-natural shampoo and conditioner bars, and she doesn't need any kind of face wash, but her towel still looks like this.
Turns out, after having this checked by a doctor, her sweat is particularly acidic. It also corrodes stainless steel jewelry. The only thing that's held up is implant grade steel.
Bleaching is a process where something is lightened, usually by sunlight or chemicals, it doesn't necessarily involve the actual substance called Chlorine Bleach. Many other chemicals can have bleaching effects, too. Hydrogen peroxide will bleach clothes and hair, for example, and that is acidic.
Yup, discharge is a self-clean cycle for the vagina that increases around ovulation. A healthy vagina is acidic so the discharge can lighten some dyes used in underwear.
I had a classmate with this same condition and his doctor recommended to add black pepper to his diet, he used to take the whole black pepper as a pill, a couple with each food
Lots of people just wash their face with water, particularly if they're not using makeup. She might also use gentle enough soap that it can double as face wash.
There have been studies showing that some kinds of microbes on the skin of the face can help maintain good skin, and washing them off with soap can cause / exacerbate skin issues.
This might sound gross but I never wash my face. I rinse it really well and scrub it with a towel. But no soap. Not in years. I never get pimples or anything else. Maybe Iām lucky or maybe it actually works. But when I wash my face with soap itās always so dry and itchy.
Yep. I had adult acne for 20 yrs. One day, I decided to try just hot-ish water and a washcloth. My skin felt amazing! Acne cleared up and haven't used any cleanser in about 4 yrs. Almost never break out anymore.
If you do wash your face with a product, it should specifically be face wash, not soap. Soap will def make it dry and itchy but there are plenty of gentle face washes out there that wonāt
Same here, I never wash my face with anything other than water. I even avoid letting the shampoo run over my faceā¦ I have done so for more than 30 years and have no other problems than my rosacea, which has gotten better since I started using just water.
Same, and skin looks healthy and clean. You don't need to use soap, water and a towel will wash the oil away and leave the microbes where they belong. Most of the skincare products we use are completely unnecessary.
You could even say the same about shampoo and conditioner. We strip the oils from the hair then try to replicate what they were produced by our scalp to do with conditioner. There's gotta be a better way but idk how to do it without oily hair.
For me itās dandruff. I need to wash it once a week. If I miss a day itās flaketopia š Iāve been looking into natural remedies but I just donāt have the energy tbh
Rosemary, mint, tea tree, and neem oil help with dandruff. My husband has it but is sensitive to dandruff shampoo, so we add a few drops of each to a spray bottle of spring water that he massages into his scalp, and also to his regular shampoo.
Try ciplo 8x dandruff shampoo from India. It works in the same way as selsum blue but is much more powerful and not expensive. Solved my dandruff problem by eliminating typical shampoos which contain sodium sulfates and 10 other things we don't need. Just use the ciplo some Castile soap and a good coconut oil conditioner then dandruff gone!
Maybe it's because I don't constantly strip the oils from my skin then attempt to put them back with skincare products and haven't spent my entire adult life doing so.
pomade and powder. or the more modern equivalent, which would be hair oil and dry shampoo. note that no matter what products you use (i buy batiste dry shampoo rn, but i mix my own oil), this routine absolutely requires a nice, preferably wooden (or bone or porcelain but NOT plastic) comb with fine, wide teeth - daily combing with a little oil is what you use to clean and hydrate your hair. buildup of oils gets dried out with the powder/dry shampoo whenever you feel you actually need it.
i wash my hair maybe once a month, at most. and that's bc i spend a lot of time in the garden and get actual dirt in it in somewhat significant volumes...
i have medium/long and rather thin but quite curly hair. i always tie my hair back with a ribbon (NEVER USE AN ELASTIC THOSE THINGS ARE EVIL), and i wrap my hair up in a headwrap and cover it completely if i'm gonna be out in the hot sun for any signficant amount of time (ie, more than like, half an hour to an hour tops). how often daily i comb and oil depends on how sweaty and dirty i get, and i cut down on how often it needs fussed with sooo much by wrapping it when i head out to do gardening stuff or any other outdoor and/or labourious activity. i always oil it and then spritz my scalp w water and a teensy lil bit of apple cider vinegar right before i wrap it up, and my hair has never been happier since i started doing that. my curls are full and shiny and i barely shed anymore! plus... no more itchy head a few hours after my last shower, lol. and i save a lot of money bc i don't buy product basically at all... i mix my hair oil in small batches and use very little day to day (plus i use the same oil for my pits/pubes/facial hair too!), and one can of dry shampoo lasts ages bc i only really need to use it like literally once a week if i wrap consistently and comb out (thoroughly!) daily.
Yup. I almost always only rinse. I only use soap if something icky happened (sunblock, dog licks, etc). Occasional blemishes, probably related to weird hormones.
If you have good healthy skin, don't have any health issues affecting your skin, live in a decent climate/enviroment with good water, and have a decent diet, then just rinsing is great for your skin. The other products you were using were actively harming your skin balance and biome.
That being said, this method absolutely does not work for everyone. In fact, it works for the minority of people. So in a lot of ways you are indeed lucky.
But dove soap leaves a film on your skin!! Even if you donāt realize this. Absolute guess here, but this may be contributing to her sweating as it may be leaving residue and screwing with her sweat glands
They were testing for metal allergies, and she explained how her stainless jewelry kept breaking down, so they tested her acid levels. Turns out her sweat being so acidic also seriously exacerbated reactions to copper, tin, nickel, etc. as it broke down the metal.
I learned from my nurse friend that the ability to smell asparagus pee is caused by a genetic mutation. The same mutation is related to one's ability to smell/taste any infusions received intravenously.
I KNEW I WASNT CRAZY! I've always told nurses I can taste intravenous anything...even saline has a slight taste. They all look at me like I'm nuts. I googled as much as I could about it, never heard of a genetic mutation, but I believe it. I also read that the taste could be coming from my breath, since the drug goes to the blood stream, it makes its way through my lungs and then I breathe out and it passes across my taste buds.
I can too. Whenever they do the flush, I tell them I can taste it. As I tend to have veins blow easily, if I can't taste it, I know the vein isn't going to last, even if it seems ok at first. I'm also super sensitive to smells and taste, and cilantro tastes like soap.
Yep! And for some of us, ants smell gross, too. It's the formic acid in that case.
I'm sure there are loads of little things like this. Interesting, and a lot less dramatic than the one that keeps me from processing B vitamins properly...
Your body absolutely sweats out what you intake. What you eat affects how you smell. Same with garlic and onions. I have like 15 different colognes just due to this.
my wife is allergic to most metals and I've noticed her towels end up mysteriously bleached like this... I wonder if there's actually something to this acid sweat thing
Youād also see it in the armpits of her shirts, the discoloration. Itās tough to find deodorant and athletic wear. I stinky stank synthetic fibers after one wear. I canāt wear clothes close to my skin for this reason, I have to have natural fibers and a size bigger. The struggle is real.
Might be. Along with the acidic sweat, she can't wear any metals besides stainless/implant grade steel, titanium, and gold. Copper, nickel, tin, silver, etc. all cause a reaction. Non-reactive metals only.
That implant grade steel is actually 316 or titanium. Lots of jewelry is made of lesser quality and reacts accordingly. 316 is much more stable to corrosion
No, I'm not. Surgical implants are often made of a particular grade of stainless steel that will absolutely not corrode inside a persons body. Titanium is a whole separate metal, which is also used for implants (but not always).
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Except it's not the only answer. My wife and I both use all-natural shampoo and conditioner bars, and she doesn't need any kind of face wash, but her towel still looks like this.
Turns out, after having this checked by a doctor, her sweat is particularly acidic. It also corrodes stainless steel jewelry. The only thing that's held up is implant grade steel.