Mandii's Muse

If you've read my post on my rosacea diagnosis , you know that I changed my skincare routine pretty dramatically! This post is a followup to show you what I use on my face to wash, and moisturize it. The first piece of the puzzle starts at night. I only wash my face at night. I wash my face with baking soda. Now if I am having some breakouts, I will add one drop of tea tree oil to the baking soda, make a paste with water, and wash my face. If I'm not breaking out, I just make a paste with the baking soda and water and scrub a dub dub. The baking soda balances the pH level of your skin, is a gentle exfoliant, and the tea tree oil is superb for breakouts. After I've washed my face, I will tone with TN Dickinson's witch hazel. This next cream is crucial. I use the Derma E Skinbiotics Treatment Creme with tea tree and oregano. This has been the key to curtailing the breakouts. And no, you don't smell like an Italian garden after using it. Haha! (Although, what would...

Getting older is a wonderful thing. #not In May of this year, I was diagnosed with rosacea. It has been a learning curve of finding out what works with my skin and the best methods to get it under control. Let me give you a little bit of a backstory with how this came to be! Bad flare up Around February, I had a HORRIBLE breakout on my right cheek. It was red, swollen, and sore. So I had some Tretonoin cream that I put on multiple times a day. It would go away for a little bit, but never completely go away. Then a week or two later it would flare up again! During this time I would continue to use my normal beauty products, and try so hard to cover it up without it looking worse. After using zinc oxide God cleared an appointment for me at the dermatologist's office, she listened to my symptoms, and right away knew I had rosacea. She gave me some samples of a facewash, moisturizer, and called in a prescription for Clindamycin. I started the Clindamycin on June 1, an...