QandA about the fruit diet and acne

What moisturizer can I use to re-hydrate my skin?

The main reason why the skin in so many acne patients is so dry, is because of the topical products that inhibit sebum production. By nature, the skin produces oil and sebum to prevent dehydration. A dry skin is not caused by a lack of water in the body or skin (which would affect all your organs) but due to accelerated dehydration of the outer skin cells, due to a lack of sebum / oil (due to those products) or due too much sunlight or aggressive chemicals (like chloride in tap-water).

The problem of most moisturizers is that they make the skin absorb chemicals that attract water: to "moisturize" the skin. Thus it functions exactly like 'dirty' protein and salt, increasing water-pressure in the true skin, which may pinch off sebum canals and thus cause acne.
And don't use ANY topical treatment, no matter how locally adapted. Please try to trust me on this one.
The ONLY thing you can use is a mild cleansing lotion.
You do not need a moisturizer, let me explain:
The skincells always contain lots of water, but the more they move up the the surface of the skin, due to the shedding, the more they dehydrate, until they eventually have dehydrated so much that they die, and shed off.
This process is accelerated by sunlight and aggressive chemicals , but also by water-attracting chemicals in the true skin, which distract water from the outer skin. So by "moisturizing" you skin with a moisturizer, the moisturizing chemicals first make your outer skin retain more water, but then are absorbed in the true skin, where they distract water from the outer skin. That is why your skin first feels soft after using the mositurizer, but after a while that effect is gone, and you might think you need MORE. While in fact the mositurizers accelerates the dehydration of the skin.

So, are there no good moisturizers?
Yes there are.
The only good moisturizer is a cream that does not contain water-attracting chemicals that are absorbed in the skin but that puts a thin layer of fat on your outer skin that is too thin and moist to clog the pores, but thick enough to protect the outer skin cells against dehydration.
So what we are looking for is a mositurizer that mimicks the effect of sebum; sebum also protects the outer skin against dehydration. But since your sebum canals are pinched off, you may produce much sebum, but too little reaches the surface, that is why in some people the skin also starts to produce more oil to counteract the dehydration of the skin.
But if your skin is dry, you need to put on a protective layer of fat that is thin and fluid enough to not clog the pores.

So what moisturizer should you take?
Look for one that does not promise to "moisturize" or "hydrate" your skin, but that just "protects your skin against dehydration".
Most effectively is to put one finger-tip of oil on your face after you have made you face a tiny little bit moist by spraying some low mineral bottle water (like Volvic) on your face with a plant spray (not so much that drops are formed; just that you feel it but don't clearly see it).

Only use an oil that is low in vitamin E, since vitamin E accelerates shedding of the skin.
Oils that contain the least vitamin E (per 100 gram) are:

   6 mg.   linseed oil
   3 mg.   sesame seed oil
   3 mg.   walnut oil
   2 mg.   coconut oil / Monoi oil

Cocoa butter contains even less vitamin E (1 mg.) but that can clog your pores. One of these oils will do just fine.

If your skin is very fragile / sensitive / dry due to Retin A or accutane etc., please try the walnut oil first, since this one is most gentle and soothing.

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