My little holy grail with acne~ | Natural, no-waste, cruelty-free and SO effective!

Today I'm writing about something a little different, and that is because I have once again been amazed over just how well my little secret works.
Yesterday, my entire cheek was full with pimples and today, they are pretty much gone.

I have very sensitive skin, that cannot really seem to decide whether it is more on the dry or on the oily side and I've always been in the dilemma that if I wash my face (with a face-wash) every day, it dries out and rashes up (and gets SUPER oily!), and if I wash it every other day, I get acne (and dry skin).
And sometimes even the face-wash doesn't help prevent it.

I used to try a lot from standard products up to all natural alternatives but nothing has worked as well as my holy grail!

We over-treat our skin.

(same goes for our hair but that's something for another post maybe)

First we use a face-wash and maybe even a toner) to get rid of all oils on the outer layer, then we add a cream to get those oils back. For me, this is once again a typical example of the beauty industry creating a problem where there is none. 
Our skin a system that works on its own and the more we fiddle with it, the more it starts to get out of balance.
It also creates a lot of waste - and that's something I am not too fond of.

So once I found my little solution, not only did I go from producing a hardly even noteworthy amount of waste in a month, it also saves money, as it completely substitutes my face-washes, peelings, face-masks and sometimes even creams.

So what is it?

It is oatmeal. Yes the grainy breakfast oats. And used coffee-powder from my mum's coffee-machine.

My routine:
For days with a regular skin-situation

1. I apply a hot damp wash-cloth to my face to warm it up and open up pores a wee bit
2. Taking a small handfull of oats (I use quick-oats instead of rolled oats) and soaking them in a little bit of warm water until they become a slightly mushy consistency and apply it to my face just as one would apply peeling.
   The oats are supposed to be soft, but once or twice a week I add about a teaspoon of ground coffee, to have a peeling effect that even my overly sensitive skin enjoys :)
3. If I've done the coffee-peeling, I wash it all off and then re-apply some pure oatmeal paste.
   Sometimes I leave it on as a mask.
4. Washing it off with cool to cold water and gently patting my face dry. 

I usually don't use a cream afterwards, especially if I have acne going on, but if I for some reason still decide to do so, I use it very carefully an minimalistic. 

Over the past year, I have tried switching back to a regular face-wash just out of curiosity a few times and in the long run, it has always been disappointing on many levels. 

This has seriously restored my formerly extremely dry skin into a healthy complexion as well as managing my acne.
Nowadays the only outbursts I get are due to hormones, stress or being a little careless with what I eat.

I love exchanging things with homemade. more eco friendly alternatives and especially when it comes to my hygiene, I hardly ever buy anything that's not natural, heavily packaged or processed.

I hope you enjoyed this - wrote this in the hopes that maybe this will work just as well as it did for me with someone, who has been struggling as well for years to find a solution.

Lots of Elflove,

Elverynel ~

PS: When I started out, I could feel some results immediately, but started seeing them after about two to three weeks after my skin had gotten used to not being over-treated anymore thehe

Linking the first video I found on this with a clear instruction if you guys are more visual and want to see how it's done :)