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Did anyone elses skin break out when they changed their diet

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  • JenniDaisy
    JenniDaisy Posts: 526 Member
    chelseypie420 wrote: »
    WHATEVER YOU DO, DO NOT DO OIL CLEANSING!! I just started paleo primal eating last month, and my skin has been looking rough as well. It's purifying toxins that have been stuck below the surface for a long time. Personally I have oily skin, and last year I read to fight OIL with oil... What a terrible mistake. I had porcelain skin, even though it was shiny. A week into the new routine, I had big painful zits with no head on them. The blog said this was a normal thing...so I kept on for another month where it just got worse and worse. A year later, my face is still breaking out in places it never did before oil cleansing and I am scarred with Brownish red scars!! I used the best lightest oils as well, I wasn't using baby oil or something like that. Please please do not fall for it!

    You dug up a 3 year old thread just to complain?
  • singingflutelady
    singingflutelady Posts: 8,736 Member
    Necro thread
  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    I think our skin reacts to any drastic change.
  • gothchiq
    gothchiq Posts: 4,590 Member
    No. However I discovered I was allergic to synthetic glycols, and eliminating those got rid of 95% of my zits.
  • NerdyRena
    NerdyRena Posts: 1 Member
    I'm actually going through this right now. I changed my diet a little over a week ago, and my face and neck broke out just resently (2-3 days ago). It's starting to clear up now. I didn't at all change my skin care routine either. I would say that if you are making a huge change in your diet, it could be a reason why your skin might break out.
  • L1zardQueen
    L1zardQueen Posts: 8,753 Member
    singingflutelady wrote: »
    Necro thread

  • KaleidoscopeEyes8
    KaleidoscopeEyes8 Posts: 30 Member
    Anyone have any follow ups? I have been eating healthy for a year or two now and my face has been breaking out increasingly worse over that time. I keep thinking it’s purging but it never stops, no matter what I try.
  • kellyjellybellyjelly
    kellyjellybellyjelly Posts: 9,480 Member
    I'm lucky that my skin usually only breaks out around my period.
  • Hamsibian
    Hamsibian Posts: 1,388 Member
    KaleidoscopeEyes8 wrote: »
    Anyone have any follow ups? I have been eating healthy for a year or two now and my face has been breaking out increasingly worse over that time. I keep thinking it’s purging but it never stops, no matter what I try.

    maybe it's something you're eating? Dairy is a huge culprit for me.
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