Dear Ms.Ph.C. Natalia Ramade,

Firstly, as the Editor of Amazingy Mag i’d like to thank you for reading this article and offering this constructive criticism, especially considering your academic standing ♡ As written in the “Editor’s Note” at the end after the list of sources, this article was originally published in 2013 by Hanny (( who is no longer writing for us )) and then in 2019 only republished by me with a formatting update to match the rest of the blog, leaving the information therein mostly intact ~ but i would guess that after 8 years of cosmetic evolution & skin research, these opinions are perhaps a bit *too* outdated ?

The point of this article back then, i believe, was to help our readership ~ who as you pointed out had / have little to no idea about skin chemistry ~ come to more of an understanding about the skin’s natural pH level (( as referred to in Hanny’s third paragraph )) and to open up a conversation about the usefulness of cosmetics in “restoring” said pH levels … so to maintain a sense of transparency while still receiving your criticism, i have edited the last section of the article to reflect more of a “blogger’s opinion” than the professional advice of a chemist ??

xx Justin Thesis Smith

remove leftover makeup’ you also mean it doesn’t remove any contaminants from
the environment, etc; not doing that any more is called evolving. But as a chemist trying to give your opinion to people that have no idea about skin chemistry, you can NEVER say “So your second-best thing would be a pH neutral….”: FYI: Healthy skin presents a slightly acidpH (4.6 – 5.8).

Unfortunately, these appalling and reckless pieces of misinformation devalue the good use of Internet.

Ms.Ph.C. Natalia Ramade //  Pharmaceutical chemist & Cosmetic chemist / Masters degree in Medicinal Cannabis.

Hi Michelle,
Thank you so much for your comment. This article was written quite some time ago by our guest writer Hanny, and all the comments somehow managed to slip under the radar. So thanks for bringing it to my awareness!
You’re right, we haven’t written much more about the acid mantle, but we have a bunch on content on here about diet and skin health, and other articles related to acne. Take a look at our Skin/Health Concern Index which you can find at the top left header.
In my humble opinion, I don’t think acne is always so black and white. From what I have seen, emotional stress, diet, medication and hormonal changes can all play a role. And interestingly, stress effects hormones, which in turn affects your skin. So where does the root cause really lie?

What I also like about this article is it concludes by advising to take things back to basics. Mess less. Because sometime the over use of products will also leave your skin in an unhealthy shape, when it’s constantly trying to re-balance itself.

I hope this helps,
Alana

With regards to ‘our skin has become more acidic’ you kind of contradict yourself a little bit. First, you said that food can influence our skin’s pH and then you negated it by saying that our skin’s pH has not become more acidic due to our diets. If food can influence our skin’s pH, it would make sense that the more acidic food a society eats the more the skin’s pH will change towards more acidic even if it’s just temporarily due to whatever they eat.

I’m aware this is waay late, but I agree wholeheartedly with the message of the article! I don’t however entirely agree that we are ‘dumb’ just been bamboozled by ‘Big Pharma’ into not realising that we don’t *need* cleansers, exfoliators, toners, serums, moisturizers even foundation, etc.

Along with other products as you’ve already been caught (manipulated, really) into a vicious circle where stripping the skin of its acid mantle by washing with harsh alkaline soaps and cleansers leaves the skin open to pathogenic bacteria, causing issues like acne , to spend more money on lots of make up to cover said acne… and then your trapped! And anxious about your appearance, probably spending even more money! on pills and ‘remedies’ for the anxiety caused… and it probably goes on further… And spilling money on all this rubbish that you wouldn’t have needed in the first place! I’ll Further funding this ridiculousness. I’m angry to think an awful lot of people are fooling populations and making money are very happy with the status quo 🙁