Struggling to get rid of skin flushing? Reasons and fixes

Is your skin sensitive, itchy, flushing and rough despite your best efforts and attempts? An early widening of facial veins is experienced mostly by women in their 30s who have a bright complexion. The symptoms are mostly triggered by hormonal changes and/or the consumption of some hot meals or foods containing alcohol.

What can you do beyond prevention?

Foaming, chemical-based cosmetics? Ditch them forever!

The golden rule is to avoid chemicals. Sulphate-containing cosmetics are one of the likely culprits. If your skin is dry, prone to flushing and highly sensitive to various external impacts, make sure you avoid cosmetics whose labels carry any of these ingredients: Sodium Laureth Sulphate (SLS for short), Sodium Lauryl Sulphate, Ammonium Laureth Sulphate.

These are cheap petrochemicals used (in quite huge measures) in almost every liquid facial wash, shower gel, shampoo and washing up liquid. Quite often these are the ingredients used in the biggest measure after water in these products – as indicated on the labels. The different types of SLS give a facial wash or shower gel a rich and thick foam – but You may have to pay an excessively high price for all that (and I don’t mean money). SLS compounds may wear away the protective oily layer of your skin and harm your natural acid mantle. Robbed of that protection, your skin becomes more vulnerable to injury, irritation, sunburn and infections.
SLS-sensitive skin may become itchy, flushed, dry and spotty – and all that at the same time. Symptoms of acne may worsen, and shampoos containing SLS may cause itching in the eyes, inflammation and even hair loss. I’ll stop short of listing them all – it’s enough to say that these chemicals can lead to a number of skin problems.

Countless Manna customers have got rid of their skin problems by getting rid of those chemicals!

Do not ‘carpet-bomb’ your skin!

Alcohol-based face washes and tonics will further erode your skin’s natural defences and make your skin unnecessarily dry. Frequent, excessive or intense scrubbing could harm sensitive skin too. Try gentle and natural scrubs! Avoid scrubbing your skin after a shower or bath (as steam will have softened it) and discover the natural alternatives to environmentally hazardous micro beads.

Careful with sunbathing!

Sunlight may well help with some skin problems but it exacerbates others, e.g. rosacea. If you have such a problem take extra care when going out to the sun – even if you use the best of sun creams.

My recommendation: use natural, gentle, vegetable-oil-based cosmetics that are made with a high level of expertise and without animal testing and palm oil. Those cosmetics will allow you to give the best care both to your skin and to the natural habitat of other living organisms.