Individualise your Holistic Skin Care

Your Gut Skin Connection

As I learned to cook -and I would consider myself a foodie after all of this- I would use homemade vegetable broth as a base for soup. Only, what I learned later on, is that the process of boiling vegetables releases their calcium oxalates into the water. You’re left with vegetable broth, but there’s more to it than meets the eye. 

For someone like me, prone to oxalate-forming kidney stones, the soup I’ve just made is actually poison to my own gut. When my digestive system is stressed, my skin inflames with rashes, eczema and other delights.

Meanwhile, this is the same way my mother cooks, and she’s never been met with a kidney stone or any problems with vegetable stock. She would say I have a delicate stomach, but that’s not actually it. I just have a different stomach to hers, and to yours and to everyone else. As do you.

Digging Deeper

Further still, mental, emotional and physical health, can directly impact our skin health and overall wellness.  Since everyone experiences stress differently, a multitude of factors influence each of us on a daily basis. There is simply no way forward in skincare and healthcare, besides an individual approach. 

Then it gets super personal. Now, we add your personal preferences! For example: Although I am fully aware of its amazingly nourishing qualities, I personally can’t stand coconut oil. As a pure oil on my skin, I quiver under its grainy texture. I object to using it at all costs, unless it’s processed within a formula, like a shampoo bar. Others, use coconut oil as a mainstay of their beauty regime, to moisturise and even remove makeup. We are each different!

With all of this, the personalised approach to individualise your holistic skin care becomes essential!