Y’all, I meant to incorporate this data in my submit yesterday in order that I might hold all of my well being data in a single month-to-month submit, however I received in a rush (it was Wednesday and I used to be on my strategy to meet my mother and bonus sister for lunch), and I utterly forgot to incorporate this. Anyway, in case you missed my well being/weight reduction/2024 decision replace for the month of April, you can check that out here.
However along with the entire no sugar, weight reduction, getting wholesome progress I’ve made, I additionally began utilizing the very best anti-aging, anti-wrinkle product that I’ve ever used, and I needed to move alongside this data. I do know I’m not a life-style/wellness weblog, and I by no means intend to show this weblog into that type of factor. However I additionally know the way a lot we ladies are likely to spend on lotions, potions, capsules, collagen powders, and so on., in an effort to show again the fingers of time (particularly as time marches throughout our faces and leaves its boot prints behind as proof 😀 ), so I didn’t need to overlook to move this alongside to you.
Let me again up a bit. Initially of this 12 months, I used to be getting so unbelievably discouraged with my pores and skin, and particularly the pores and skin on my face, neck and chest. I imply, I do know that I turned 50 years previous final June, nevertheless it’s like I used to be beginning accumulate a 12 months’s price of growing older each month. I used to be getting so unbelievably discouraged seeing the wrinkles change into extra pronounced on my brow, the crepe-like wrinkled pores and skin underneath my eyes, and so on.
I used to be shopping for each cream and potion that any influencer on Instagram advised me I wanted, and whereas most of them would work instantly to plump up my pores and skin and diminish the look of the skinny, crepe-like, wrinkled pores and skin, nothing had any lasting results that lasted greater than a few hours.
Let me present you what I’m speaking about. And only a warning, you’re about to see far more close-up footage of my face with no make-up than you ever needed to see. 😀 However let me begin at first of this 12 months. This was me on January twenty eighth of this 12 months.
My face was positively puffier then than it’s now as a result of I’ve misplaced 25.5 kilos since then. However I’m not speaking concerning the puffy face. What received me down was primarily the dry, wrinkled, crepe-like pores and skin is underneath my eyes. And I’m, and have all the time been, an individual who piles moisturizer on my face as a result of my pores and skin has all the time been so dry. Since I like pure merchandise, I’ve all the time used coconut oil as my moisturizer. However after I began seeing this dry, wrinkled pores and skin underneath my eyes at first of this 12 months, I additionally began shopping for merchandise marketed particularly to be used on that pores and skin underneath the eyes. However nothing that I attempted had lasting results.
Right here’s a close-up from that image above. Regardless that I used to be always moisturizing, my pores and skin all the time regarded dry. And my goodness, that underneath eye space was actually getting me discouraged.
And so that individuals don’t suppose it’s only a dangerous image, or simply dangerous lighting, or I used to be simply actually drained that one time, I’ll present you extra footage taken at different instances in several lighting. Right here’s one other image from January thirty first. Once more with the eyes. Ugh.
I used to be very glad that I wore glasses as a result of not less than that camouflaged the wrinkles some, however even at that, there was no hiding what was happening underneath my eyes. Even with my glasses on, my eyes have been all the time wanting so drained and previous.
Even with the glare on my glasses (as a result of I forgot to organize them with the non-glare coating), there was no camouflaging this.
I had began utilizing two completely different merchandise fairly religiously at first of the 12 months. (Truly, certainly one of them I began final summer time after being influenced by an influencer. 😀 ) Right here’s the “progress” after utilizing a type of for months, and the opposite one for a few month. I took this image when Matt was within the hospital at first of February. I had hoped to see extra progress after including that second product, so this image was actually discouraging to me.
Right here’s a closeup of my eyes from that image above. I don’t actually see any distinction in any respect from utilizing these merchandise.
So sooner or later after Matt received out of the hospital, my face began breaking out on the corners of my mouth, and I began getting redness and itching on my neck. So with all the points I used to be coping with, from the dry, crepe-like, wrinkled pores and skin to the breakouts to the itchy pink spots on my neck, I used to be throwing every part I might consider at my pores and skin, from coconut oil and tallow for the dry, wrinkled pores and skin, to Benadryl cream for the itchy redness on my neck, and all the lotions I had bought.
When none of these have been actually working, I lastly requested myself, “What do I’ve that I haven’t tried but?” I went looking via my cupboards, and I got here throughout one factor I hadn’t tried…castor oil.
I had bought castor oil and a castor oil pack after I began following a lymphatic specialist on Instagram. She recommends castor oil packs for every kind of issues, and I had been utilizing mine over my liver every evening. And whereas I had learn fairly a bit concerning the amazingness of castor oil (in case you haven’t regarded into it, I extremely suggest it), and I knew it to be helpful for a really wide selection of points, I wasn’t certain about placing it on my face and neck. However I made a decision to provide it a strive anyway. It’s fairly thick stuff, so it’s not one thing that I’d ever attempt to placed on my face as a each day moisturizer earlier than placing on make-up to go someplace. However I began utilizing it at evening earlier than mattress. Every evening after I ready my castor oil pack and put it on, I’d put a little bit of castor oil on my fingers and rub it throughout my face and neck.
Y’all, I couldn’t imagine the change! I used to be seeing very noticeable variations in my pores and skin in lower than two weeks. That image above that I took when Matt was within the hospital was taken on February sixth. This image beneath was taken on February twenty second.
I do know I look scary. 😀 I had been working within the studio and was taking a day Sonic break, so my hair was a multitude. However that’s my face with no make-up after lower than two weeks of utilizing castor oil on my face each evening earlier than mattress.
Right here’s an in depth up from the picture simply above.
Right here’s one other image simply a few weeks later. This one is March 2nd.
Right here’s one other closeup…
And right here’s one from this morning, Could 2nd, about 45 minutes after I awoke.
And one other shut up…
I imply…y’all!!! I’ve purchased SO MANY merchandise over the past 12 months to assist with my pores and skin. And the factor that gave me probably the most outstanding outcomes was castor oil! Not solely is it probably the most moisturizing factor that I’ve ever placed on my face and neck, nevertheless it cleared up the pink itchy patches, and has additionally finished wonderful issues for the pores and skin on my neck and chest, which had additionally began wanting crepey and wrinkly. However sadly, I haven’t been taking development footage of my pores and skin in these areas. My eyes are what made me probably the most self-conscious, in order that’s what I’ve been monitoring with progress footage.
I do know that every one you are able to do is take my work for it (not solely my phrase that these outcomes got here from castor oil, but additionally my phrase that I haven’t retouched any of the above images), and persons are typically fairly skeptical about claims concerning skincare, anti-wrinkle, anti-aging merchandise, however I’m not even right here to promote you something. I imply, I’ll give you the link to the exact castor oil that I use, and it’s an affiliate hyperlink.
However my outcomes don’t have something to do with the model of castor oil that I take advantage of. You simply need to guarantee that it’s natural, chilly pressed, hexane-free, and is available in a glass bottle. (Don’t use castor oil from a plastic bottle!!) So I’m not married to a particular model of castor oil. I simply need to move alongside this data in order that others can know the amazingness of castor oil. I’ll use any model that meets these specs. However I can guarantee you that I will probably be utilizing castor oil on my face each single evening for the remainder of my life, and I’ll by no means be suckered into shopping for one other costly anti-aging miracle cream from one other influencer or sparkly Instagram advert ever once more.
I can’t recover from this…
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and enhance the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
