Our teenage years can be tough, as anyone who’s made it through will tell you. For some, these bodily changes also mean changes in our skin, which can signal the start of many years of struggles with acne spots and breakouts.So what is teenage acne and is there anything we can do about it?
Should we be having facials and eyebrow waxes? Can we? Should we support our salons or hold off a bit and stick with the DIY skin treatments and hair cuts?
But what about picking at spots? If you’re picking at your skin all the time to help ‘flatten out’ or smooth your skin, freeing it from bumps and spots, then you may also have dermatillomania. Most of us do this from time to time, but could picking our spots and our skin all the time be damaging, and make our skin worse? What about occasionally squeezing spots? Is that ok?
On many skin care product labels, the words ‘pea sized amount’ tend to crop up a lot. But what does this mean? Are there different guidelines for different products?
Whatever your skin type, whatever your routine, one thing is for certain, gently exfoliating regularly will be (mostly) beneficial. But what does exfoliating do? How do we do it? What should we be using to exfoliate with? And importantly, how often should we exfoliate? Here’s our ultimate guide to exfoliating.
When we look at the images of models and actors in glossy magazines, on Instagram and starring in fancy adverts and Hollywood films we can easily get swept along in believing that their perfect, glowing skin is real.
We might have heard of collagen in terms of collagen fillers that promise to plump up the cheeks and make our lips fuller. But what some of us might not know is, is that collagen is naturally present in our bodies already.
So, what about hemp seed oil? What is hemp seed oil, how do we use it and wait... hemp? Isn’t that made from cannabis, meaning that it’s illegal? Here’s the Sönd lowdown on hemp seed oil and how it can benefit our skin.