Bethany McDaniel

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1,194 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 8 May

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Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark · From Severe Acne To Glass Skin: Why Your Sunscreen & Skincare Are Making It Worse | Bethany McDaniel · 8 May 2026 podcast

So I was kind of on this like up and down cycle of my acne would get better for a little bit and then it would get worse again.

And then,

You know, I was using all kinds of topicals at that time as well, which were increasing my skin's sensitivity to the sun.

I was on the swim team at the time.

I was in chlorine.

No one was thinking about how all of these things interacted with one another.

I wasn't.

My dermatologist wasn't.

So I think that my skin just incurred a lot of damage over the years from all of these different elements.

I almost wish I would have done nothing back then.

Were you using St.

Ives apricot scrub?

Of course.

Yes.

And that's another thing.

I was under the impression that what you needed to do to treat acne was to just strip your skin of all of the oil because oil was, quote, bad.

And you needed to get rid of all the oil.

But what I didn't know is that I was stripping my skin of its natural moisture barrier, causing it to then overproduce oil, which then can cause more acne.

So I was doing...

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