Pimple patches are perfect if you're looking for a temporary fix; but if you're looking for something your skin will thank you for, Sweet Life Skincare and Beauty Treatments is here to support you healing your acne reactions and strengthening your skin. Here are a few good first choice options that clear acne for that naturally strong and healthy appearance. After all, good health and strength is confidence!
But before I tell you all the ways to heal acne from within, there are a few things to keep in mind that will never change about your skin.
It's never good to never see pimples.
If you're not seeing pimples, your skin is holding onto toxins.
An healthy integumentary system renews its cells like clockwork as keratinocytes are developed every 28-40 days (when the skin is working optimally). If you're not seeing occasional pimples, papules, pustules or comedones, your skin may look "calm" but is behaving outside of health and isn't communicating clearly; this can be resolved with a quick trip to the best esthetician you can find.
Your skin will always need more than salicylic acid to keep pimples at ease.
Salicylic acid is simply a drying agent; it is derived from natural sources, available by supplication of willow trees and is a good topical solution to the appearance of acne. It doesn't resolve acne that hasn't appeared as yet, which occasionally results in hyperpigmentation and cystic conditions becoming visible on the surface of your skin if left unresolved.
Fun fact: salicylic acid can help reduce irritation from UV rays.
Basic skincare isn't for everyone
Effective skincare... just like anything else, calls for personal discipline applied to commitment to healthy personal habits. It is not a copy and paste practice that works identically from one person to the next, and sometimes different components work more harmoniously to better the condition of one person's skin in comparison to the next. Skincare is the adaptation and appearance of personal improvement and self discipline applied to strengthening, healing and replenishing our wellness foundations, daily.
If you're noticing your skin is dryer than is normal, it is best to seek professional guidance in selecting acne treatments and skincare treatments, in general.
Dry skin is more sensitive due to its tendency to lose water across epidermal layers; as such, selecting acne treatments for dry skin is a more delicate task than treating oily skin, and requires an holistic or full spectrum evaluation to developing an effective skincare program.
Prescription acne medications are band-aids to reset your skin; they're drugs, not lifetime acne treatments.
Skincare medications for acne aren't designed for permanent, routine use when considering acne; the strength of these medications can impair your integumentary system over time and reduce its natural ability to fight infection and maintain its barrier function, because most of them function to increase cell turnover, remove bacteria, and regulate oil production. The health of the integumentary system needs more. Additionally, monitoring the reactions of these medications is imperative to preventing adverse effects and sensitivities to typical environmental stressors.
These are the treatments that clear acne while bringing the sweetness back to life:
Collagen induction
Clay treatments
Spot treatments
why?
These treatments are all restorative and purifying. While everyone's skin requires more or less of something specific, this curation of treatments only takes acneic conditions into account with the potential for hyper oily skin or hyper flaky skin; though crucial, it does not consider the individually unique sanitizing or exfoliation needs that precede every facial. Collagen is a supportive function of our biological makeup, so when its included in a skincare routine with clay products and light therapy prior to spot treatments, it doesn't simply clear acne, it works to rebuild elastin, remove dirt and sebum from the invisible layers of skin, strengthen its foundations; and skin won't simply look healthy, it will actually be healthy and the re-investment into personal care will replace the cost of artificial beauty treatments and experimenting with your skincare as you continue developing wellness as your strength! Collagen can be applied at home, but typically, home applications don't stimulate your inherent collagen production and in some scenarios, treatments like microdermabrasion, copper, or otherwise may be the most effective and timeless. Your focus determines your daily habits and personal condition (as it becomes a discipline for your actions, like a foundation); in other words, by focusing on personal strength and health in all aspects, you live true strength and health, everyday. That's the Sweet Life.
Schedule your skincare treatment now to start your self care journey with confidence, or to unwind in the sweet serenity of our spa-scape.
Sources:
Kornhauser, Andrija, et al. “The effects of topically applied glycolic acid and salicylic acid on ultraviolet radiation-induced erythema, DNA damage and sunburn cell formation in human skin.” Journal of Dermatological Science, vol. 55, no. 1, July 2009, pp. 10–17, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdermsci.2009.03.011.
Narsa, Angga Cipta, et al. “A comprehensive review of the strategies to reduce retinoid‐induced skin irritation in topical formulation.” Dermatology Research and Practice, vol. 2024, no. 1, 17 Aug. 2024, https://doi.org/10.1155/2024/5551774.
Schachner, Lawrence A., et al. “Insights into acne and The skin barrier: Optimizing treatment regimens with ceramide‐containing skincare.” Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology, vol. 22, no. 11, 21 Aug. 2023, pp. 2902–2909, https://doi.org/10.1111/jocd.15946.