Hello beautiful people of the internet, what's up? It's a girl Kisha. If you are someone with acne prone skin like myself then you are no stranger to skin inflammation. In today's video I want to talk a little bit about skin inflammation and how you can see that. Hopefully this video will help you guys get rid of any irritation that is currently on your skin. I know if you guys have been watching my channel I recently did have a reaction to something that I was using but this is exactly what I use to get rid of it. If you guys like content like this then make sure you are subscribed and without further ado let's get started. Now I do want to preface by saying I am not a gem or telogist, I'm not licensed to tell you about your skin, I'm your skin care enthuses and everything that I'm saying right now is from my own experience as well as my own research and perhaps you guys can use this as a jumping off point to do your own research for yourself. When you have skin inflammation it is essentially your immune response to a stimulus and it can appear in numerous ways. Now it can appear as a rash on your skin, as red splotches, as a gzema, it can be itchy, it can also be and you raise bumps on your skin as well as even acne. Now I do already have a complete step-by-step routine of what to do when your skin reacts to a new product so if you haven't already seen that video it's linked above as well as down below but in this video I specifically want to talk about the inflammation in your skin and when there's any type of sores on your skin, that's what I really want to tackle with in this one. The first thing of course is ice. Ice is really good at soothing any inflammation and irritation on your skin because it's so good at calming down the skin. It's great when you have muscle soreness, when you have joint aches as well as when you have pimples. It's really good to apply it immediately because it will help get rid of any redness on your skin as well and that is of course the easiest way to get rid of any inflammation. The next thing you can use to get rid of any redness on your skin happens to be eye drops. Now I always keep eye drops with me even when my eyes are not irritated but I use them in different ways and one of them happens to be to get rid of any redness. When you have a redness or itchy eyes you use eye drops because they are steroids and this helps to calm any inflammation, itchiness as well as any pain or swelling in your eyes. It does the same thing for your pimples so if you have a really annoying pimple that is painful and red apply a few drops of your favorite eye drop onto your pimple and you'll see the redness and some of the irritation go away in as little as four hours. The next thing you can use is actually the aloe vera. Now you can use the actual natural gel or you can purchase aloe vera gel depends on how fresh you want it to be. Aloe vera is really good at calming down, cooling and soothing the skin and it really helps to heal the skin even faster. It's made up of almost completely water and your skin needs moisture to be able to rejuvenate and heal itself. This is exactly what this does. This can be used if you have dry skin, this can be used to help eczema. It's what I'm using right now to help my eczema and this is so so good. It's so simple, it's natural and it works. The next thing you can use is actually ibuprofen and specifically the ones that come in a gel form. When you are menstruating or you have any type of pain, joint pains, whatever the case may be, you take ibuprofen because it helps that inflammation. It helps to relieve that pain. It does the same thing topically on your skin. So when you're in a pinch, apply a little bit of the gel. You can take like little needle and pop the gel capsule and put it on. It's kind of like a sticky consistency, but it soaks into the skin. It does contain a little bit of alcohol so you don't want to use this forever, but in a pinch, you can use this and is going to get rid of any of the irritation as well as a redness on your skin and help to have that anti-inflammatory effect on your pimple. So this will work as well. There's actually even ibuprofen gels that you can purchase that are essentially just the gel without the capsule and you can apply that on your skin too. It works really well. Next, I want to talk about some of my favorite skin products that I've seen have a really good effect on my inflammation on my skin. The first one being this niacinamide in 10% plus zinc 1% from the ordinary niacinamide is an amazing ingredient for basically anything you're trying to solve for your inflammation, for any redness on your skin. It helps to repair the skin. It also helps to subtly lighten your skin. So if you have dark spots, this is going to help you as well. But using this on an everyday basis, it's going to just lay down the bricks, the foundation for your skin itself, and really help to prevent any of that irritation and inflammation because it works on building up your skin barrier. Such an amazing ingredient. It's like $10. You don't have to buy the niacinamide from the ordinary, but this is just the one that I have. Niacinamide in general is amazing. The next thing you can use is products that target specifically repairing your skin barrier. And some of my favorites, of course, are the serivate products. These are hands down some of my favorite skin care products. To be honest, I'm actually really excited to use these, even though they are boring and they don't do anything crazy for the skin. They are super, super good. They are hands down some of the best skin care products I've tried to be honest. The one I have is the foaming facial cleanser from the normal foyless skin. And then this is the moisturizing lotion for normal to dry skin. These are so good. And what I love about this is that they have niacinamide in it, which I talked about before, is such an amazing ingredient. They also have ceramides and ceramides help to repair your skin barrier. Anytime when you have irritation on your skin, and you type of inflammation in your skin, it's because of a compromised barrier. So your number one goal is to soothe that barrier. Hands down. If you don't even use any of this, this is going to help to do your skin super quick. Now, while you are using this, it is really important to ensure that you're not using anything that's going to strip the skin. So you may not want to use retinal, vitamin C, any types of exfoliators. You don't want to be using anything like that. But I feel like sometimes, you know, your skin still needs to be exfoliated at some points. Otherwise, you're going to end up with more problems down the line. So maybe on the fourth day of using all these products, you may want to add a gentle exfoliator. One of the ones that I love using is by SeraVai as well. SeraVai, no, SeraVai as well. This one is their cellosalic acid cleanser. So it's a little bit of BHA in it, which will help to nicely exploit the skin while still getting those ceramides. So it's super gentle and soothing, but it's going to give you a little bit of that exfoliation. And I love using this in a facial wash because it's not staying on your skin. To whereas if you're using let's say a toner or a serum that's going to stay on your skin and can maybe cause you more irritation while you're going through your irritation outbreak, something like this is going to be on your skin, exfoliate and then you wash it completely off. So really, really good to switch out your exfoliator to a cleanser. The next two products are actually creams that I found work really well. It's soothing irritation for me. This one is the event sickle-feit cream. It's another one of those steroid type of creams that's really going to help you just apply a moisture barrier onto your irritation. And it also is a steroid once again that's going to help prevent them from itching us and it's going to help repair your actual skin barrier. This one is so good. It's my second tube and it's what I've been using to get rid of my eczema. It has worked really well so far. The last thing is the Claire's Midnight Blue calming cream. This thing is so, so good at getting rid of any redness, any itchiness on your skin. I find that when I have any type of ex-market so, so, so itchy and applying this on it to thick blue cream. I'll show you guys. It doesn't smell like anything but this blue cream is so nice. So at the end of the day, I'll just put on my aloe vera and I'll slab of this all over my face before I go to bed. At least like an hour or so so we can soak into my skin but it has really good calming ingredients. It does not clog your pores whatsoever and I do have combination oily skin so I can't use anything too too thick but I love that this soaks into your skin really well and it helps to calm down any redness. If I have really red itchy skin in the morning when I wake up it is completely gone and it is absolutely because of this that has made such a big difference in my skin. There was this some of the products and tips that I have for you. Comment down below and let us know what other tips do you find really helpful because we would all love to know and help to fight our inflammation. Click over here to see some of my previous videos and as always stay gorgeous, stay fabulous and I will see you lovely ladies and gents in my next video. Bye.