One of the best ways to reduce your toxic load is scrutinize what you put on your skin and body. When suffering from a chronic illness such as Lyme disease, limiting toxic exposure is key. Our livers are already burdened and adding more to the liver’s load only slows healing down. This applies to all kinds of illnesses and honestly just overall healthy living. Fortunately I have been living mostly clean when it comes to my beauty routine for the past 20 years. There have been many clean beauty products I have tried but this year landed on my absolute favorite thus far. True Botanicals! Find out how to get a free serum at the end of this post.
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TRUE BOTANICALS CLEAN BEAUTY ROUTINE
The end of 2020 I finally took the bait and ordered my first True Botanicals order. Based on their awesome skin care quiz, I ordered the Clear line.
- Starting with the Clear Nourishing Cleanser
- Next I go over my face with the Clear Nutrient Toner on a cotton pad.
- Then slathering on the Clear Pure Radiance Oil – This smells like a luxurious wildflower blend and sends me straight to a “spa like” feeling on a sunny day. Literally OBSESSED with this oil!
- Every night I follow this step with the Clear Repair Nightly Treatment.
- 2-3 times per week I use the Resurfacing Moisture Mask after the toning step and before the oil step.
- I always follow my morning skin care routine with SPF. Currently I am using Beautycounter’s Countersun Daily Sheer Defense For Face. This helps the hyperpigmentation not get any worse from sun exposure.
HOW TRUE BOTANICALS HELPS ME
The year of 2018-2019 I spent 9 months on anti-biotic therapy to treat my Lyme disease. Looking back I would have NEVER started anti-biotic therapy at the late and very chronic stage of Lyme disease. This literally destroyed my skin which made me super sad. It is hard enough to feel sick all the time, I don’t want to look sick too. The acne started first during hyperbaric treatment then the hyperpigmentation (melasma) settled in. Thankfully with continually cleansing of my body the acne cleared up, but the melasma is still going strong. All this being said, using the Resurfacing Moisture Mask and Clear Repair Nightly Treatment is helping to fade more of the melasma than other skin care brands I have tried. In addition I am adding the Vitamin C Booster to my routine for to enhance further fading of melasma.
IS TRUE BOTANICALS WORTH THE PRICE?
Healing Lyme disease continues to cost more than our mortgage or food budget each month. I feel incredibly blessed to be able to receive the treatment I do. However, spending that much of our budget on my health alone often leaves me feeling guilty. For example, I tell myself I shouldn’t spend money on skin care. Let me tell you, using skin care that is not only good and safe for me, but effective has been a small luxury and simple pleasure to have in my every day life. Lyme disease stripped away my absolute favorite simple pleasures, running and a morning coffee. When starting the process of fully healing we have to understand this is a part of it. Finding small simple pleasures and joy in our every day lives that actually make us feel good is vital to healing. That is me justifying the cost to not only myself, but to you. Everyone finds joy in different ways and this has helped me to feel overall better about myself and appearance when I go into public. So the answer to the heading question, YES, it is absolutely worth it to me!
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MY OTHER SIMPLE PLEASURES
My hope is you too will find ways to make yourself feel good and in actuality feel more like yourself. Lyme disease changing you and it is hard to find your way back to the land of living sometimes. Other than what I feel is a luxurious spa treatment every day with my skin care routine, here are a few other simple pleasures that have helped me cope with feeling sick more days than not.
- a daily walk outside in the fresh air
- Epsom salt bath every day
- Blue Lotus Chai with raw local honey and a little almond milk
- starting this blog!
- treating myself to a good hair cut
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