I feel like I should revisit this popular topic. I get too many phone calls and emails every day from people who are sleeping with the Wonderbar like a mask. Is it okay? Why is my skin so dry only four days in? I’m really breaking out! Is this normal? Well, yes and no. Yes, it is normal to get dry and breakout in the beginning. Your skin is literally healing from the inside out……so the initial dryness is the algae talking. The breakouts come from the clay working to detoxify your skin. But you need to pay attention and if you feel like it is getting uncomfortable, then you should not be sleeping in it. Your skin has not adjusted yet, but it will. In the beginning, I told people to sleep in it and believe me, I learned my lesson the hard way! I thought because I could, that everyone could. “Not so”, said a beauty editor of a national glossy (after I had instructed her to sleep in it). To sum up my experience: LEARNING!
The Wonderbar is very strong and it will do what it needs to do- it’s just a matter of how swift and hard you want it to happen. I slept in it from the beginning and things were fine for me, but I have heard from the inventor in Malaysia that people who have worn make-up for a long time, simply have more toxins in their skin. This makes sense. Make-up and powders and creams and potions can sometimes clog your pores, thus holding the toxins in…….If you have worn make-up for years, perhaps you have years of toxins trapped in there. Expect to break out a little more. Sun damage? Expect to get a little drier. Or perhaps you just have extra dry and sensitive skin- you might get drier in this case, but this too shall pass. Consider a baby’s skin, which has no skin damage or toxins…..the Wonderbar is sorta out of a job. Your skin reacts to the Wonderbar based on exactly what YOUR skin needs. Also remember that toxic skin will age faster, so you want those toxins outta there!
The safe answer is: only use the Wonderbar for 3-5 minutes twice a day. This is really all anyone needs to get the job done….no sleeping with the Wonderbar until you are completely through the “adjustment” period. You can have a long, beautiful and evolving relationship together, so please get to know the product first.
Tags: Extreme Dryness, healing crisis, Wonderbar
