What's Da Buzz?

See Saw Danda o Kandado  Do is a fun game to play when you have a little one. Unfortunately, my little one is rapidly growing out of being a little one. If I keep trying to play the game much longer, I’ll need a knee replacement surgery as I blow out my knees.

However, the key word in the title is SAW. SAW is an abbreviation for showers, acne, and weather. Now I haven’t fully researched this one yet but chime in with your experiences for all the Filipinos.

In the Philippines, we know what the weather is. Hot and humid with a daily chance of rain or really hot and humid with rain happening almost every day. As a result, we favor taking cold showers to cool off and refresh ourselves. (Not having a hot water heater might have something to do with that too.) For whatever reason, I did not get acne in the Philippines. I still have not figured out if it was due to my diet, the weather, shower patterns or what the reason was as to why I skipped out on the acne during a teen.

In my twenties and in the USA, I have gotten quite a bit of acne. Sobrang dami ng taghiyawat ko! In the first 3-4 years, my face was full of those things. Of course they couldn’t be small and concealable ones but more like a white volcano range on my face. Now it seems like they come and go in two batches matching my cycle as a woman here. Does anyone else have those issues?

Being in Wisconsin though may have something to do with it. With four seasons of weather and lots of varieties from day to day, my skin goes through quite a bit more strain from the weather. In the Phils, you can adapt once and know it will be like that nearly every day. In the USA Mid-West, you have no idea what the weather will be for the day so your skin is continually adjusting. I would have a tendency to believe the weather changes do not help me to fully adjust to the climate here and avoid acne. Either that or my acne bomb was on a time delay.

I have also read that taking hot showers actually ages your skin. In the Mid-West, hot showers warm you up when it is cold for 3/4ths of the year.

So that leaves me to wonder what the proper balance of showers, acne and weather is to my Filipino skin. Maybe it was drinking herbal tea then and only restarting now? I’ll keep the research going.

Thank you,

Anah

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