Skin damage from the long-term use of steroid-based or other toxic creams (e.g. hydroquinone, monobenzone, mercury) can be distressing. They can include thin/fragile skin, hyperpigmentation, dark marks, nerve damage and changes in texture.
However, with time and patience, there are ways to reverse the damage and restore your skin to its original health.
Our organs (including the skin) are resilient, and if we give it what it needs, it can slowly heal itself.
To support skin healing from the bottom-up, the first thing you can do is clean up your diet and lifestyle as much as possible.
Change your diet to include more fruits and vegetables. Read up on the healing benefits of an alkaline diet as well as raw fruits/vegetable juices.
The second thing you can do is to apply healing, penetrative oils on your skin every day (such as cold-pressed castor oil, extra virgin coconut oil or olive oil).
Castor oil is one of the most healing oils there is. In fact, castor oil can be especially helpful in treating chemically-damaged skin as it has the ability to draw out toxins and penetrate deeply into the skin.
Read more about castor oil
Other beneficial healing oils include shea butter, Vitamin E oil, cold-pressed coconut oil (EVCO), and extra virgin olive oil (EVOO).
Any oil you use should ideally be cold-pressed as it would retain more nutrients and not contain any chemical preservatives.
However, for this to work, patience really is key. It could take several months to a year of daily applications of oil to get results.
As appealing as they are (and I definitely understand this feeling), quick fixes are unlikely to restore your skin. And any results you get from a ‘quick fix’ will likely prove disappointing or be temporary at best.
In the case of deeply damaged skin, I believe slow and steady really does win the race. It might help to know that the damage was done over a long period of time, so healing will also take time.
Hi hessa I used a cream called carambola face cream and also same soap then after about one month I stared noticing small red spider veins on my face and green veins on my hand but I stopped ND started using healing oil to repair my skin but I feel like giving up because I feel this thing is permanent because of what I saw online
Hi Christabel, don’t give up. Natural oils and natural remedies all take more time to work, so try to be patient and give yourself support in mind and body. Things can seem very bleak if we focus on what we feel sad about, but trust me your life is full of good things.
Do your best to take your mind off this one thing about your skin and simply use the oils, eat healthy and do these without feeling (i.e. don’t overthink it, just make it an automatic task with no expectations like brushing your teeth every night).
Time will go by the same whether we treat ourselves with kindness or not, but since we all only have 1 body and 1 life, I would want for you (and everyone) to treat yourself with love and kindness as much as you can.
p.s: Look at the before-and-after pictures in the link about castor oil treating a deep scar above to give yourself some encouragement. That was deep and serious damage to the skin that was healed with time, trust and patience. It is possible, and you can do it too.
Best of luck and healing to you,
Hessa
Thank u hessa for the encouragement God bless u
I will give myself 6months of doing this to see how it goes
Hi hessa gud day, I got green veins from a steroid cream and I just started using Shea butter because I read on someone’s page that Shea butter helped clear her green veins but I don’t know if it’s true…. Should I stop using it, ND pls when will I start seeing the results of using the Shea butter
Hi hessa I used a bleaching cream ND it ended up giving me green veins I don’t know if I can use Shea butter on my body because I heard it darkens the skin