Wow, thanks, definitely going to see if I can get this stuff! Do you leave your face alone throughout the day? I use oil-absorbing sheets or ricepaper sheets compulsively but someone once told me stripping the face of oil causes it to produce more.
Yes, nowadays I leave it alone during the day. Last year I did the compulsive stripping, too, and only got more and more oily and acne-y skin for my troubles. I still strip the oil off in the morning and the evening with my self-made tonic, but since I apply jojoba oil/zinc paste right after and, over time (three or four months), got less oily, I guess that's ok. Apparently jojoba oil is not an oil but a wax, and very close to the skin's sebum, so putting it on tricks the skin into believing it's oily enough already. Just make sure you don't use too much of it. Two or three drops rubbed between your palms and applied on the still-damp-from-tonic!face are enough.
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Re: Acne, bbs
(Anonymous) 2011-07-21 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)Re: Acne, bbs
(Anonymous) 2011-07-22 09:36 am (UTC)(link)Yes, nowadays I leave it alone during the day. Last year I did the compulsive stripping, too, and only got more and more oily and acne-y skin for my troubles. I still strip the oil off in the morning and the evening with my self-made tonic, but since I apply jojoba oil/zinc paste right after and, over time (three or four months), got less oily, I guess that's ok. Apparently jojoba oil is not an oil but a wax, and very close to the skin's sebum, so putting it on tricks the skin into believing it's oily enough already. Just make sure you don't use too much of it. Two or three drops rubbed between your palms and applied on the still-damp-from-tonic!face are enough.
Good luck!