Cleanse Skin Without Stripping Natural Oils

Amandha: So, okay, then as a terrain boundary – the acid mantle as a terrain boundary. So when I say it prevents excess bacterial and fungal overgrowth, what I’m saying is what I just said with the pH, right? Because if the pH is not doing the job of keeping things clean, keeping the body regulated electrically, then the bacterial and fungal aspects have to come in and do the job instead, right?

Amandha: So I always think of it, it’s not an infection. It’s not like I caught something. This is your own body going into action to remove something, maintain something, or create something – like vitamins, for example, B12 in your gut, right? It’s there to do something for you, and depending on your situation, there could be aspects you don’t like.

Amandha: You know, it could be a smell or an itch or whatever, but that’s because the body is now going into backup mode. It’s not in ideal mode, but it is all there to serve you, maintain life, and protect you. What ends up happening is we use things that damage this, like during COVID, right? There were all these heavy alcohol hand sanitizers. Ridiculous.

Amandha: Like, absolutely destroying your pH balance on your hands. Ironically, setting you up for the very problems they’re saying you’re causing, right? Like, you don’t want to use those products on your body, on your hands. You don’t want to over-sterilize yourself, right? Because now you’re going to throw the terrain off, and you’re going to have to correct that, which is going to take energy.

Amandha: Okay, environmental stress and hydration are also acid-mantle aspects. So using the wrong cleansers, right? Like, I actually make all-natural soap because commercial soaps – you would be shocked to see what they put in these soaps. Totally unnecessary. You know, there’s an agenda here because, like, you do not need to put these chemicals that they do in soaps, right? And so it throws off the pH. It can lead to things like candida issues, it can lead to problems, you know, down low, and things like you could take a bath, use this commercial soap, and get a UTI, you know, because the body is like, no, this threw off our pH balance.

Amandha: Okay, so some of the ways I suggest cleansing: just natural soap and water. Okay? This all depends on your skin type, but you could just use natural soap and water. I do make this Clear Glow Cleansing Oil. It’s just in a little bottle here.

Amandha: So this is my well-worn, I’m-almost-out bottle of Clear Glow Cleansing Oil. I can never seem to show what I’m looking for. Maybe I need to put it behind a book. Maybe it’ll show it if I do that. I don’t know. It won’t focus. That’s cool. Anyway, using soap and water will get rid of a lot of oils, but using a cleansing oil will cleanse you of oils and it won’t strip your skin.

Amandha: And so what I do is, if I have any makeup on or I was out at the beach or whatever, I take my cleansing oil and I put it on one of those little cotton pads and I cleanse my skin with the cleansing oil. You should see the dirt that comes off that will not come off if I just splash my face with water, for example.

Amandha: All that dirt and everything – you go outside and people’s exhaust and whatever the hell they’re spraying and whatever – it settles on your skin and can cause blocked pores. Your pores need to breathe. It’s a two-way street with your skin, right? Stuff comes out, goes out, and stuff can go in. So I use the cleansing oil to clean off all the debris and everything, and then I may wash with soap after, depending on, you know, if I was in the garden and I got whatever. It depends on the circumstance, but I don’t always use soap and water on my skin.

Amandha: Again, it depends on your skin type because you don’t want to strip all those beautiful oils, right? You don’t want to rub it raw, and a lot of people use improper cleansing methods for their skin. So I use this particular one if I’m trying to take off makeup, take off dirt and whatever, and it’s amazing what comes off of you.

Amandha: Okay, let’s go back to the stage here. My Orange Facial Cleanser and Tonic – I don’t have it with me because my daughter keeps stealing it from me – but it is a kombucha-based orange extract, orange peel extract, orange essential oils, and it’s like a quadruple-orange powerful facial cleanser and tonic. So it will help support the pores. It will astringe or tighten some of the skin. And so after – it depends on what I’m doing.

Amandha: Sometimes I’ll do the Clear Glow Cleansing Oil. I’ll even just wash my face after that with soap and water. And I make soap. You can see my soaps at YumNaturals.Store, and one of my top sellers is my frankincense and myrrh activated charcoal soap. Activated charcoal also takes, like, heavy metals and stuff off the skin.

Amandha: So I’ll wash with one of those soaps, then I’ll do my Orange Facial Cleanser, and I’ll really cleanse out any other residual dirt. But it’s not stripping; it actually will moisturize. And this is another soap I invented. It’s a turmeric citrus artisan soap. Turmeric is very skin-brightening and very healing to inflamed skin or sensitive skin.

Amandha: So any of those natural soaps that you know are artisan-made, handmade, without – they don’t add, like – you can’t add anything but essential oils. You don’t want fragrance oils in there. You don’t want weird dyes where they use skin-stripping dye in the skin. It should be natural micas or natural additives if you’re changing the colours. I use all kinds of plant extracts for coloration.

Amandha: So that’s, you know, one routine that I do for cleansing when I really want to get a deep clean and not strip my acid mantle from my face, and also support the actual skin to recover.