Are urine or are you out? To pee or not to pee...

By BR Kellie

There’s not much I won’t put on my face. Snail slime? All good. Bee venom? No worries. Homemade masks made from egg or avocado or mashed banana? If I could find the energy to be bothered mashing em or whipping em up I’d be doing it. However there’s one old but rediscovered fad that’s got me going yeah nah in a big way. Urine Therapy.

Yes, apparently popping your pee on your face and body is a thing. Well, it’s been a thing for a while. Women in eighteenth century France would take baths in their urine, and growing up in the South Island we were told to pee on our chilblains to help get rid of them. Heck, even Madonna’s admitted to weeing on her feet in order to fight Athlete’s foot. And I can get it’s an antiseptic and antifungal, and that it’s great for helping with tinea and the agony of itchy red owwy chilblains… but on your face? Really?

 According to dermatologist Rachel Nazarian MD, who spoke to Marie Claire, urine can help exfoliate your skin, leaving it softer and smoother, and it can be helpful for those who have Keratosis pilaris.

There’s even a book dedicated to the benefits of urine – Martha M Christy’s Your Own Perfect Medicine: The Incredible Proven Natural Miracle Cure that Medical Science Has Never Revealed. In that she talks about how urine can be helpful when applied on the skin for acne, as well as eczema and psoriasis. Although she goes so far as to suggest we ought to be drinking it every day. Um. No. Thank You. Kale juice is apparently good to drink as well… but I don’t do that either.

Part of the reason people are into bathing in their own urine is because it’s apparently filled with a whole bunch of good stuff. According to Urine Colors, a website which happens to be dedicated to all things urine, urine is made up mostly of water, with a dash or urea, uric acid, ammonia, hormones, dead blood cells, proteins, salts, minerals and toxins. So yes, it’s got some good stuff in there, but UrineColors.com makes the very good point that urine does involve getting rid of waste your body has no need of, so it in fact can be toxic.

Now while a lot of what can found on the interwebs is a bunch of people going ‘have you heard it’s good for you’ I did come across one site where a woman actually attempted to cure her acne by applying pee to her face every single day for a few months. You can read about her experience here.

Now while we’re all for drinking water challenges, and makeup-free challenges, and no-buys (which might last one minute with us), that is one challenge we have no interest in taking part in.

One question that the crew and I have debated though, is that if your first morning wee is the wee that’s best to use, then would that mean your face would end up smelling like your first morning wee, which, let’s be honest, isn’t always the most pleasant of aromas? Now there’s food… or drink… for thought…

But enough about us… what about you? Would you put urine on your face in the quest for better skin? Would you drink it if it was the magic cure all for everything in the world? If you’ve tried it, ‘fess up! We want to know if it works! Remember… sharing is caring!

[Now I have cut my own hair, let my husband give me an undercut, burned my face off with a mask...I think it's Pixie's turn for a blog challenge.  - Nat]