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Common household ingredients that should stay in your kitchen and off your face.

Here are the top offenders and why you shouldn’t use them on your face.

Baking soda. This one always gets me. pH balance is extremely important to the integrity and health of your skin. A healthy skin pH is between4.5-5.5, where as baking soda has a pH of 9.

Using ingredients that are too alkaline disrupts and damages the skin’s natural barrier, which is important in protecting the integrity of the skin and keeping you healthy. Because it’s so alkaline, using baking soda on the face results in the skin’s inability to retain moisture, stripping the barrier and compromising your skin’s ability to protect itself for environmental factors, including bacteria.

Know what else has a pH like baking soda? BORAX.

Keep the baking soda in the fridge and off your face. Please.

Citrus & Citrus Oils.

A common ingredient in DIY skincare recipes, especially those intended to “lighten” pigmentation irregularities — lemons and lemon juice are way on the other side of the pH scale with a pH of 2. This means they’re extremely acidic.

Applying lemon or other citrus oils directly to your skin irritates and disrupts the acid mantle. The oils in citrus fruits are also photo-toxic, which means if you concoct a facial oil with any citrus essential oils, any sun exposure after can exacerbate irritation to the point of getting chemical burns, because they create a chemically induced skin irritation.

Mind you, products containing citrus or citrus oils are formulated with other ingredients to prevent photo-sensitivity.

The same does not apply when you rub a lemon on your face.

Coconut Oil. Fatty acids are part of our skin’s natural composition, along with ceramides and cholesterol. As part of a formulation in products for dry skin, coconut oil can be great. Though oily skin types and those prone to acne need to beware – coconut oil won’t just break you out. It will present extremely painful, cystic acne that can make it challenging to clear and restore skin to optimal health.

Coconut oil is HIGHLY COMEDOGENIC. Comedogenicity Scales rate a substance’s ability to clog pores. Coconut oil is a 4 out of 5.

Even formulated products can cause issue for some consumers. Using that jar you picked up at Trader Joe’s? You can pretty much guarantee your skin is going to be compromised.

So you might be wondering, what about other oils then?

I have a great answer for you –if it’s in your kitchen pantry, leave it there.

If it’s already formulated for SKIN then it’s probably ok, but it’s still a wise idea to ask your esthetician if it will benefit you or not.

And if you use an oil, be sure to follow it with a ceramide-rich moisturizer, otherwise skin will react by creating a low level inflammation, which is not what you want. Inflammation cooks your collagen and speeds up the aging process.

I don’t know about you but I am NOT trying to speed up the aging in my skin.

Rubbing Alcohol. I remember busting my boyfriend with this one when we first started dating. Rubbing alcohol is often used as a topical antiseptic and/or to sterilize wounds to avoid infection.

Oh and it’s also used to clean the house.

While it might feel “refreshing” at first and create a little tingling sensation that makes you feel like it’s working, the truth is — rubbing alcohol is one of the most drying, damaging ingredients you can put on your face.

It dissolves the DNA of both bacteria and human skin cells, leading to dryness and buildup of dead skin cells, thickening the epidermis like a well-worn baseball mitt. Is that the look you’re going for? I didn’t think so. It wasn’t my boyfriend’s look, either and he stopped immediately after learning just how bad it is.

Sugar. DIY Face Scrub? Just say NO. The uneven, jagged edges of sugar crystals will tear up your face so much you might as well toss yourself through a plate glass window. No, really (but don’t do that). Sugar disrupts the lipid barrier and creates microscopic tears in the skin. You might not see them but the dryness and flaking skin to follow are sure signs of what has happened. This irritation takes even longer for skin to heal. It’s just not worth it.

In closing —

Inflammation and irritation are a nightmare for your skin. Using any of these products to create your own DIY skin care is an assault on your skin. Whether you see it or not, irritation creates inflammation. Inflammatory chemicals trigger an increase in oil production to try and right the wrongs created on the surface of the skin. This irritation leads to a breakdown of your skin’s natural repair process, it breaks down your collagen which speeds of the aging process, and it weakens the skin’s surface, leaving it susceptible to infection and acne. Yikes!

So if you feel like using lemons, make a tart.

Coconut oil? Saute some veggies.

Sugar? Bake a cake… I’ll even send you my address.

Just keep this junk off your face.

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