Yeah.

Um, diet and lifestyle factors is another huge thing that's kind of surprised me with the importance because when I was in esthetic school or before I was licensed, it was always for me just looking for the right ingredients and the right products, but diet and lifestyle is so, so important.

So, um, if I'm sitting down with an acne client, I'll ask them questions like are they on, um, if I'm working with a female client, are they on a birth control that's maybe high in progestin? 'Cause that can cause a lot of hormonal or trigger a lot of hormonal acne.

Um, or if they have an IUD, that can trigger a lot of hormonal acne.

Um, if they're consuming, you know, a lot of energy drinks with biotin, eating a lot of dairy, um, a lot of peanut butter, anything that's gonna essentially stimulate the body to produce more oil, it's good to know that now so that can be, like, a conversation we have that that's something to be mindful of.

Mm-hmm.

So what purging is, essentially, when we're introducing all these actives that are gonna speed up cell turnover, which is the rate at how, you know, quick our skin is renewing.

Someone has a lot of inflammation under the skin and they introduce these actives for the first time, it can bring up a lot of inflammation, a lot of congestion up at once.