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Eczema Care

The best way to handle eczema is not with more creams

I grew up with eczema so it’s hard to list all the different creams and lotions I used over the years. Some worked but were too expensive to maintain. Others were cheap but had...

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Rosacea Treatments, Sea Buckthorn Oil

When the treatment is worse than the disease

For a long time, people suffering from rosacea didn’t have many options to handle this skin condition. Most of the treatments were based on fighting inflammation instead of fixing the cause. The cortisone-based skin...

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Psoriasis, Sea Buckthorn Oil

I don’t have a choice but to be slightly obsessed with my skin

People with a healthy skin have no idea what someone suffering from psoriasis has to go through growing up. It takes years of trial and error to find out exactly what is good for...

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Skin Care, Skin Treatments

How I got rid of skin redness with soap

If you have extra sensitive skin, the first thing people tell you is to never use soap. Well, I beg to differ. Those people telling you not to use soap are wrong. What they...

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Skin Care, Skin Treatments

Why skin care is not a trend, it’s a necessity

It drives me mad when people think taking care of your skin is all about beauty and looking good, and that times will change and the fad will be about something else. Caring for...

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Psoriasis, Sea Buckthorn Oil

How someone with psoriasis and sensitive skin deals with treatments

If you are familiar with psoriasis treatments, either because you suffer from this condition yourself or know someone close to you who does, you know phototherapy is one of the most common treatments prescribed...

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Sea Buckthorn Oil, Skin Allergy

Why we took our engagement photos three weeks after he proposed

My husband, then my boyfriend, had the perfect plan to propose to me in the middle of our weekly weekend hike in the mountains. He had it all set up and he would propose...

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Eczema Care

What keeps my eczema under control when I travel

When I decided to become a travel journalist, I knew my eczema would be my biggest problem. Stress, jet lag, and constantly changing from one climate to the next were the worst enemy for...

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Skin Treatments

How to simplify your life by downsizing even your skin care products

A couple of years ago, circumstances in life led me to reevaluate my priorities and decide what kind of lifestyle I wanted to have. It took me a long time to heal and to...

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Skin Treatments

How my part-time job as a teenager ruined my skin but FaceDoctor fixed it

As a teenager, while other kids were partying during spring break, I was working hard at whatever part-time job I could find to save up for College. I had seen my mother struggle to...

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