I’d been battling a losing battle with blemishes and acne for the past month and a half. I’d never really had perfect smooth skin but I’d stopped getting breakouts too. I’m getting too old for having a face full of acne! So, I was at quite a loss last month when my whole face inexplicably broke out. Not only was I getting hard painful acne, I was also getting lots and lots of bumps under my skin which were horrid. My forehead, where I don’t get many spots, was a mess as were my cheeks.
I initially thought it was a skin product I was trying out so I stopped using it. Instead of going away, I kept getting one bump after another on my skin and it really bugged me.
That was until I was reading some reviews online and came across a user of Tresemme hair conditioner who loved how soft the conditioner made her hair, but said that it caused her to get body acne. That got me thinking. What if the skin problems I was facing was not to do with skincare but with the Tresemme conditioner I was using? I gave it a rave review previously, but I’d never thought it might affect the skin.
My hair conditioner was finishing, so I decided to stop instead of restocking, just to see if my gut feeling was right. I went instead for Himalaya Herbals Protein Conditioner which I have also reviewed.
Within 3 days of stopping my Tresemme conditioner, I realised I was not getting any new spots. Within a week, and with a little help from my trusty apple cider vinegar toner, my skin is now almost back to the way it was i.e. relatively smooth, with no new blemishes or spots. I’m very happy about that.
However, it got me wondering about why the Tresemme conditioner would cause my skin to break out. I’ve never had a hair product do this to me before. It could be because I wash my hair everyday so I am exposed to the product a lot and something in it did not agree with me.
Either way, I seem to have isolated the hair conditioner as the cause of my traumatic month-long battle with problem skin and I’m working on clearing it up now, with great success.
Have you had a hair product break you out before?
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I have never used the Tresemme line, but the Herbal Essences and Aussie lines are death to my complexion. I went a full year before I realized that the problem was with my hair product. I spent a month washing with baby shampoo to test my theory, and after a month, I had my skin back to my pre-Aussie condition. Now I am super picky. I have had great luck with the Dove line, and their conditioner in the dark blue bottle is amazing. Also, the Curls Rock line from TIGI has been pretty safe. It took me a while and some trial and error to get back to good skin, but I am pretty happy I did it.
I have naturally curly hair, and have been using smoothing products, leave in conditioners and smoothing frizz control elixirs on my hair for years to control the frizz, especially in humity, and to limit damage from blow-drying my hair straight and using a flat iron. I recently stopped using the leave in and elixir and switched to a mouse, and noticed a big difference right a way in less breakouts on the sides of my face and my back. I don’t know why I never made the connection before, that my long hair touching my face and back, with all the hair products in it, could be the problem. No skin care professional I’ve ever been to ever suggested it either.
Now I’ve also been using the Aveda darkening shampoo and conditioner to keep my hair color longer, but I think I’m going to switch to WEN and see if that helps.
i’ve been using pantene shampoo and conditioner but if youll notice now i think they reformulate their products.. just got their new shampoo and conditiner w/ the new package/container already, and whala! my skin horribly breakout specially in forehead then side of cheeks… my dermatologist told me johnson johnson baby shampoo is godd, im still up to try it… so scared of those products now they can really damage skin.
Wow I am so glad to find this!! For the past 3 or 4 months I have been getting these hard, big, painful, under the skin blemishes and they are all in one area-right at the end of my jaw line towards my ears, on both sides of my face. I was like what could possibly be gathering there and nowhere else? I do have breakouts elsewhere on my face, but not horrible and nothing like this before! I Googled and saw it called several things; severe acne, hormonal acne, paraben allergy…Somehow it dawned on me that about 3 or 4 months ago I switched from Sunsilk (which I can no longer find in the stores) to Pantene!! I am going to go to the store TONIGHT and buy something different!! I am really hoping that this is what the problem is, at least for these stubborn painful under the skin blemishes!!
Ironically, I also felt like my hair was thinning in spots over the past few months. My friend that does my hair even said it feels like my hair is thinning! I saw another post that Pantene causes your hair to fall out?!?!?! Pantene doesn’t even make my hair look THAT great! DEFINITELY not worth this acne!!! Thanks everyone and best wishes to all! I will try to post results in a week or so!
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