Heal your skin

Abbie Oguntade explains why stress can affect our skin and how to heal it with plant-powered products and self care

You may well have heard the cheery phrase ‘there’s nothing certain, except death and taxes’, but thanks to the frenetic pace of modern living, we can add stress to that too. It happens to everyone; I can vouch for that personally. And that sense of heightened anxiety, irritability and loss of sleep can also affect your skin. I’d just come out of a particularly stressful period at work and the pressure was on to deliver another record year of growth. Something had to give and it was my skin! Developing stress acne was mortifying. I felt out of control, but I eventually managed to clear it through diet (I ditched processed food and ate raw, organic food instead) and an overhaul of my skincare routine — ultimately that was the…

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