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Below is one bloggers story on how breaking their coffee addiction had an effect on their skin.
You always hear people swear that giving up [insert vice here] changed everything for their skin. Most often, it’s dairy, sugar, wheat, or coffee. With countless dermatologists telling me that cutting coffee is what would finally take care of my pesky breakouts, I retired my Starbucks card in the name of better skin. Why is coffee the culprit? Long, scientific story short: It’s because coffee is highly acidic. High doses of acidic caffeine mess with your hormones, namely your stress hormones, which control your skin’s oil production. On top of that, it can act as a diuretic, dehydrating your skin if you drink too much. I fall shy of the four-cups-a-day group, so I think I’m safe on the dehydration front, but the rest I can’t dispute.
I think most dermatologists will probably recommend going a month without java to see results. I’ve had one tell me I’d see a difference in a week, so I met the challenge somewhere in the middle. First of all, let’s get the obvious out of the way—did I miss my morning cup of joe for those three weeks? Absolutely. Moving right along to the topic at hand, namely skin, my breakouts are primarily hormonal, so I timed my coffee hiatus accordingly, in order to give my experiment plenty to work with. I wasn’t expecting a miracle, but in week one, I’d say there was no noticeable difference to speak of. (Womp. Womp.) Week two is when my monthly breakouts kicked in. Again, no marked difference—my flare-ups were all about average and lasted just as long as usual. (Le sigh.) But once they cleared up in week three, I’ll admit my skin looked great. The little breakouts that tend to linger all but disappeared and the pores that always give me trouble looked less congested than usual. I’m not going to say my skin looked J.Lo glow-y, but I wasn’t hating the experiment as much I was early on. The other change I observed was in the moisture level of skin. I almost always have a few dry patches around my nose and chin, but by week three my skin was far less parched—leading me to believe that perhaps I wasn’t exempt from the dehydrating effects of coffee.
So my skin didn’t magically transform into airbrushed flawlessness over the three weeks, but if I could do it again, I wouldn’t have caved on day 23 and had that iced latte. I think if I were to truly give up coffee long-term, I’d be pretty pleased with the results. By all outward appearances I was on the road to success, but what’s also notable is how I felt. I thought I would be dragging without my daily caffeine fix, but it was the opposite. (Okay, excluding day one and day two.) In fact, that iced latte on day 23 made me feel a little sick. So, I’m back on the no-coffee bandwagon (for now). The new challenge is to make it to four weeks