Why I don’t wash my face anymore Posted in Personal, Self Mastery on March 19th, 2010
Some time ago a friend told me that when she was a kid she stopped using facial cleanser to wash her face. She only used water because she was afraid that she would upset the ph balance of her skin. How many of you reading this now are going, “What??! She doesn’t use facial cleanser??!”
Well, the point of this article isn’t about facial cleansers, but about the beliefs that we inherit. Since the day we’re born we’re bombarded with information from every side. How many thoughts in your head right now are your own? How many things that you do daily, are things that you were told to do and so you do them, and how many are things you actually want to do?
Just like using facial cleansers to wash your face. Most men I know don’t use any type of facial cleanser just soap. And yet their skin has been the same and sometimes better than a woman’s skin. I’ve always wondered, as I lathered my face with expensive facial wash, what are the men doing right?!
How does this relate to you?
The reason I’m bringing this up is because I would like you to look at your life and make an assessment:
- What are the things that you’re doing because everyone else is doing it and it is ‘normal’ or ‘just how it’s done’? (reading the paper / watching the news everyday, going to college)
- What are the things you are doing because of all the ‘research’ out there? (Expensive facial wash, taking your medical shots, etc)
- What are the things you are doing because someone told you to?
- What are the things you are doing because … whatever
Now ask yourself, is this really necessary. I stopped using facial cleanser. The only time I use it is when I wear make up and I need to take it off thoroughly. Guess what? Nothing happened. My skin went on being it’s usual condition. I stopped buying into a lot of things that ‘people’ say are true. First of all, who are these ‘people’ and secondly, why do we have to listen to them?
When you are creating a life of bliss, there will be a lot of things that others will say you can or cannot do. Don’t listen to them without making your own assessment. Remember:
Eeverything in the world, started out as someone else’s opinion.
Don’t let their opinion hamper your progress!
xoxo
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pps My big aha moment was the facial wash incident, what was yours? Please leave your answer below! Thanks!
My ex-room mate didn't wash his face with soap/cleanser and didn't wash his hair with shampoo. And his hair was long. Seems you need to find a balance with the amount of oil your body produces and it balances out somehow but it takes a while. Seems soap will make our skin produce more oil.
My aha! moment was hearing from my college that I couldn't take the second year of my schooling until September of 2011 and suddenly I felt "stuck" in my job. I had been focusing so strongly on being done in May 2010 that I didn't realize that I was disliking the working conditions, my boss, and one of my coworkers more and more strongly. The relalization that I had spent two years at the job instead of following my dream and using the year of schooling I already had to work as a massage therapist.
I gave my two weeks, trusted God that I'd get work at a clinic that offered what I needed to grow and sure enough with only a few days left of my two weeks I was accepted at a wonderful newly developing chiropractics clinic which was branching out to include massage. I love it.