I spent a couple years working for Proactiv in a kiosk and really enjoyed some of their training. I never got good at the aggressive sales techniques but I learned a lot about why certain ingredients are used in their treatments as well as the lotions. It even lead me to a great exfoliant for my dad when he was having some skin issues on his leg and has served me well in understanding exfoliants, emollients, and as well as where essential oils may have their place.
As time has gone by I have developed dryness on my hands and applied that knowledge. And now my daughter gets flair ups of excema particularly when getting covered in sugary or acidic food. Seeing as my daughter is still two and loves all the food we give her in the messiest way we have had to experiment with lotions, colloidal oatmeal, and limited ingredient washes quite a bit.
Now the interesting thing that happens when dealing with excema is that eventually we turn to look at allergies and gut health. We do spend quite a bit of time making sure to add good pro and prebiotics to our diets but right now I’m interested in new things I run into which brings me to this article on drinking Dust Might Dust. This is not exactly a new concept where one tempers their immune response by micro dosing their allergen. But I do find it interesting to see this applied to something like dust mites which I’m sure will strike a gag reflex much as the concept of eating crickets for protein.
I like both of these approaches as being straightforward and simple. They don’t require a bunch of chemical formulation but provide a direct link to something our bodies can make use of. I am all for pharmaceutical and scientific advancements but we really shouldn’t try to perfect the things that shouldn’t exist. Sometimes there can be better options like cricket protein powder.
As long as they can make it taste good I’ll be one of the first to purchase my cricket protein shake supplements.
Just don’t take away my steak dinners.
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