How to Treat Acne Naturally Without Harming Your Skin Barrier

Today, I wanted to educate you on how to treat acne safely, with the skins barrier health in mind, achieving long term skin results and clarity, without the sensitivity and redness that can often follow after treating acne.

Often, acne can be a skin condition that we tend to treat aggressively, due to the emotions that come with having an inflammatory skin condition that can take away your overall self confidence. Skincare marketing pulls on these emotions, often making false claims and using harsh ingredients in order to get quick results that are often short term with an aftermath of skin issues that follow.

Treating safely, with the skin's barrier in mind, can sometimes take longer to see skin results, but often can lead to long term skin clarity and health, rather than short bursts of skin clarity.

What Are Harsh Ingredients and Their Impact?

Many off-the-counter acne treatments include ingredients that promise rapid results but at a cost. Education is key! Here are some of the most-common culprits and their potential impacts on your skin's health:

Is there a natural alternative to harsh acne treatments & how do they work?

YES: Fresh Face Perspective on Acne Treatment

At Fresh Face Skin, we stand for nurturing your skin back to health, respecting its balance, and supporting its natural defences, in order to achieve successful long term skin health and clarity.

Here’s how we embody this ethos in our approach to combating acne:

Gentle, Nurturing Ingredients: Our formulations, from the Healer Cleanser to the Soother Treatment, are enriched with ingredients that love your skin back to its natural, balanced state. Think soothing aloe vera, purifying tea tree oil, and balancing jojoba oil.

Supporting the Skin's Barrier: Our absolute priority is strengthening your skin’s barrier and never, ever tearing it down. After all, if your skin's barrier is healthy and strong, your skin is able to function at its best. Our products aim to hydrate, protect, and repair, ensuring your skin can defend itself naturally and maintain long term health.

Tailored for Sensitivity: Understanding that acne-prone skin is already vulnerable, our acne focused range is designed with sensitivity in mind, offering comprehensive care without the harsh side effects.

Natural Ingredients: Working with your skin

Being 100% natural and toxic free is something that is and will continue to be our main focus, ensuring that we treat the skin and body with respect.

When it comes to treating acne, knowing your ingredient allies is key, especially those gifted by nature, ensuring that you make educated decisions around how to look after your skin.

Here’s a look into some of my personal acne-clearing faves and how these ingredients play a starring role in our Fresh Face Skin products:

Tea Tree Oil: A gentle warrior against acne, known for its antibacterial properties. Our Healer Treatment & Healer cleanser harnesses the power of tea tree oil to target acne without harshness, supporting skin recovery.

Aloe Vera: Soothing, hydrating, and healing, aloe vera is a blessing for inflamed, acne-prone skin. You’ll find this hydrating hero in our Soother Cleanser, offering a calming cleanse that leaves skin refreshed and comforted.

Jojoba Oil: Mirroring the skin’s natural sebum, jojoba oil helps balance oil production and deep-clean the pores - both factors in managing acne, long term. Our Soother cleanser Soother treatment and Healer treatment contain this natural oil, to help nurture your skin, while restoring balance in its functions.

Trehalose: Included in the Healer cleanser and treatment, this natural sugar extract is derived from dried mushrooms and helps to retain moisture within the skin, keeping your skin hydrated and able to improve its overall function and healing process.

Vitamin B5: This vitamin is known for its soothing, hydrating and healing ability within the skin. It improves and strengthens your skins natural barrier function, reducing water loss as well as increasing hydration levels, bringing your skin back to good health.

L22: A star ingredient within many of our products, this is a blend of natural oils derived from jojoba, macadamia and olive, designed to mimic the skins surface lipid profile to that of a 22-year-old. Reviving your skins barrier back to a healthy 22-year-old barrier function, will increase moisture and hydration within the skin – reducing redness and sensitivity, while enhancing skin healing, ensuring your skin maintains a balanced, healthy function, long term.

Glycolic Acid: This natural fruit acid is derived from cane sugar and is naturally antibacterial helping to remove surface bacteria while controlling oil flow and lightening the stubborn discolouration that can be left once pimples have started to heal (think the pink/brown marking that lingers once a breakout clears). This acid will also help to gently exfoliate the surface of the skin to soften texture while also speeding up cell turnover within the skin, increasing healing time.

Embracing Fresh Face Skin in Your Acne Treatment Routine

Integrating Fresh Face Skin into your daily routine is about more than just addressing acne; it’s about nurturing your skin’s barrier and maintaining moisture levels, ensuring your skin remains resilient ongoing.

Below are our top picks for treating acne:

• Healer Cleanser: A charcoal, glycolic acid, gel based cleanser that aims to purify, while respecting your skin's natural balance, setting a clean foundation for product application.
  
  
• Soother Cleanser: For inflamed, sensitive acne, our Soother Cleanser aims to gently cleanse, removing surface impurities, while calming redness and inflammation and balancing oils.
  
  
• Healer Treatment: Designed to gently treat acne, this product can be used all over or as a spot treatment, to help clear bacteria, calm inflammation, even tone and increase skin healing time.
  
  
• Soother Treatment: Packed full of antioxidants this light blend of natural oils closely resembles our own skins oil allowing for easy absorption, while balancing excessive oil production and calming surface redness and inflammation.
  
  
• Skin Balancing Pack: This cost effective, simple-to-use pack, has been designed specifically for acne concerns, while ensuring your skin’s barrier remains strong and healthy.

With knowledge as our guide and nature as our chosen force, tackling acne becomes a journey of healing, balance, and self-love.

We understand the toll acne can have on your self esteem and created Fresh Face Skin with the aim to bring honesty, affordability and sustainability back to skincare, all while using the power of nature.

We believe everyone deserves the confidence to wear the skin they’re in, naturally and we are here to educate and support you throughout your skin journey.

Still have questions or concerns? Feel free to email us at:

info@freshfaceskin.com.au or book to see one of our in-house skin experts, via our video consult or in-store consult service.