I'm sure it's helping a lot of people, even if it just to realise not one thing will work on everyone all of the time everywhere   (though jojoba will work on most of the people most of the time )

Whenever I make wheatgrass juice and it doesn't matter if I have green hands, I rub any left overs on my hands, seems to help.  (which is also a reminder, whatever you do to your face you should do to your hands - your hands show signs of neglect faster than anywhere else on the body, basically because they are more exposed to everything all of the time, if anything is going to start falling apart, it's the hands first.



My understanding is that coconut butter is the US name for coconut oil - ie they are the same thing.

Sorry to be such a gritty bug bear about this. But my skin is driving me nuts.

It's SO DRY!!!!

I've mixed together a potion of cacao butter, avocado oil, hemp oil, vit e oil, rosehip oil, evening primrose oil and jojoba. I jusst got so sick of my dry skin I threw everything into the mix.

Well, it's good, but I feel like it's STILL not enough! 

My skin feels dry and taut - like when I move my facial muscles everything pulls. It looks good, I have no complaints about the way my skin looks - it just feels so dry! 

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,
Niqi

OK dry skin - are you still breast feeding? If not how long ago did you stop? You've been mildly doing 80/10/10 a bit haven't you?  I don't think 80/10/10 can get enough essential fatty acids into a diet for nice plump skin, and it isn't enough if you're nursing.  Nursing will lower your own supply of Omega 3s like nothing else, it can take months to get your levels up again.  The skin coming out on the surface of your face now is 4-6weeks old - so you need to consider what your diet was like early to mid July.  

Eat lots of flax seeds though that can then bring about a bit of loosening the bowels up too much, so just be a bit cautious before you eat a kg of it.  Avocados, durian, chia seeds, evening primrose, hemp, even eating coconut (I recommend consuming coconut oil more than applying it ) Unfortunately it will take 4-6 weeks for all the extra essential fatty acids to have an impact, so your skin will feel great mid-late Sept when it probably would be feeling better due to the warmer weather anyway.....

How to get the skin comfortable now: spray your face with water or the wheatgrass juice spray you were using before and then apply your wonder oil mix while still damp, this gets your skin some hydration under the oil.  Get an enzyme mask to chew off the tight skin, not AHAs like glycoloc or lactic acid, you want an enzyme mask (papaya or pineapple), if you can cope with a collagen face mask have that done, it really will plump up the skin.  There are some marine collagen products (Arbre has one) rather than freeze dried cow collagen, but freeze dried cow collagen will build it up. Honey mask, face mask applied at home with steam (have a steamy bath with mask on).  Increase water intake. Increase intake of omega 3s in particular but all essential fatty acids.

Dear friends - thank you so much for your advice. 

I am using wheatgrass spray, and I am in Melbourne - it's really cold and dry, no humidifiers anywhere! Not breastfeeding. Not drinking enough live water - lots of lemon juice in water, though, which is the only way I like it! Need to step that up more. I've been drinking lots yesterday and today my skin does  not feel as tight.

I will give the pineapple enzyme mask a go. Thanks for the advice, Melb.

I'm wavering on the 80/10/10 - I REALLY feel the lack of fats. I know I'm experimenting and flirting with food here, but I think I'm on to something. I NEED fats! I find that fruit/veg fats are really well tolerated by my body, and Melb, you're right - 4-6 weeks ago I wasn't eating as much good EFA's as I am now.

I have just found an all-vegan creamy cleanser from Brisbane, and and chucking my Jurlique one out - creamy it is, but it's got something which once upon a time I thought was ok, but now feels toxic. (Some 'vegetable derived' chemical.) Thanks RGG.

Sanghama, can you recommend a rich cream? Everything I look at here has chemicals and preservatives in it, and one product I used once upon a time from Tasmania is made with beeswax & honey, which I would prefer to avoid, not vegan. Thanks for this advice.

Look, thanks SO MUCH!

Will let you know how it goes. My skin is feeling better today, but only because of water intake yesterday.

*rising from desk and going to water filter*

blessings to you all.
THANKS!!!!!