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Eczema Care, Eczema Treatment

What to do when your stressful job can trigger eczema?

As an ER doctor who suffers from eczema, I can honestly tell you it’s been hard to control the stress-related triggers of the skin condition. I certainly should be stressed about my job, especially...

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Sea Buckthorn Oil

The Best Psoriasis Treatment Doesn’t Have to Be the Most Expensive

We live in a consumerist society and we were raised to believe that if you want high-quality products, you must pay a high price. For someone growing up with psoriasis, a chronic skin condition...

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Skin Treatments

Stop Using Expensive Wrinkle Creams. It’s Not Worth It.

I’m sure you’ve been through this when the first wrinkles started to show. Someone pointed the thin lines around your eyes and mouth and, although you hadn’t noticed them before, they seemed to get...

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Acne Soap

How to Finally Get Rid of Excess Oil on Your Skin

I’ve always had excessively oily skin since puberty and I was never able to control it as an adult until last year. If you have excessively oily skin like me, you have probably bought...

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Sea Buckthorn Oil

My Quest for the Perfect Natural Psoriasis Treatment Ended with FaceDoctor

When I was searching for the best remedies for skin problems for my psoriasis, I kept coming across the same recommended active ingredient. Sea buckthorn oil. Well, someone who has suffered from psoriasis all...

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Acne Treatment, Skin Treatments

Why I Hated that one Line on David Bowie’s “Life on Mars” Song

When Bowie sings “the girl with the mousy hair”, I cringe. Every single time. I grew up being that girl, the one every other girl made fun of and called gross. That song in...

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Sea Buckthorn Oil

I Had to Give Up Phototherapy but Had FaceDoctor as backup

For people with psoriasis, phototherapy is one of the most effective treatments but is also one of the most expensive. Before being laid off from work, I had the company health insurance coverage so...

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Sea Buckthorn Oil

I’ve Tried Geothermal Baths in Iceland and Onsens in Japan, but FaceDoctor Was What Really Helped Me

I never had much faith in the lotions I used for my eczema. They all felt and smelled like the same thing, only with a different name. and all of them, without exception, only...

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Sea Buckthorn Oil

What It Feels Like to Grow Up with a Chronic Skin Condition?

I get a lot of heat from random people when I say that living with a chronic skin condition is tough. Their point, and it is a fair point, is that a skin condition...

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Eczema Treatment

How I Mastered the Art of Living with Eczema with FaceDoctor

I won’t say I was able to cure myself of eczema but I think what is happening right now with my skin is pretty close. It took me a while to figure out what triggered...

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