Should I use the Sun Elixir Face, or the Sun Elixir Face with Zinc?
This is a question I'm asked often, and as we move toward the brighter months, it's
arriving in my inbox more and more. The answer lives inside a larger truth, so let me start there.
The skin is intelligent
If you are on the Flow Daily Ritual, your skin is already working from a place of homeostasis. Balance. Your barrier, the guard at the gate, is healing, and a healing barrier is intelligent. It recognises what it receives. When you apply something as alive and concentrated as the Sun Elixir, the barrier knows what to do with it. It uses those plants to protect you from intense light, while still letting in the frequencies your body is meant to receive.
The sun is not something to be hidden from. The sun runs you. It runs the entire physiological processes inside your body. You are a creature of that light. The work is not to avoid it. The work is to be ready for it.
How to use the Sun Elixir Face
This is for daily life. In homeostasis. In balance.
Morning : Apply over your Flow Ritual. This prepares your skin for the day, for the light, for whatever you will walk into.
Evening : Apply over your Flow Ritual again. This is the recovery. This is where the magic lives.
Whatever happened during the day, a sunny mountain walk, a picnic, gardening, or hours outside, your skin receives the raw materials it needs to return to balance. Nothing turns into something chronic. No darkening. No uneven tone. No "sun damage" later on.
You recover the same day.
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Nobody knows this.
Very few people live like this.
This is the secret of my teaching, and I learned it the hard way. I am dedicating my life to spreading it.
Come back home to yourself every single day. Return to balance. Mind and body. So nothing turns chronic. Not in your skin. Not in your body. Not in your life.
I see this in myself constantly. I love nature, surprise. I find myself on picnics with friends, on mountain walks, under an open sky. Sometimes I come home a little red. I do my Flow Ritual, layer the Sun Elixir Face, and by morning, the redness has become an even, beautiful tan.
I feel grateful for the day instead of worried about it.
I gathered a memory, not a consequence.
This is the point.
You will gather memories. You won't gather fear.
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It's the same with my mind.
Flow Ritual. Sun Elixir. Meditation. I return to myself. I start the next day carrying nothing.
Free.
Free for whatever comes my way. Expecting the best. Expecting the miracle.
I know some of you don't believe in miracles. But hear me: if you keep carrying yesterday's disappointment into tomorrow, do not expect anything new to find you. How will you notice the miracle when your back is bent under the weight of yesterday? You won't. You can't.
How many yesterdays have you been carrying?
I see you. I see that you are tired.
Leave yesterday to yesterday.
Start the day free.
When to use the Sun Elixir Face with Zinc
Two situations only.
- The handful of truly direct days. In the UK, this is maybe one month out of the year, when the sun is genuinely intense and direct. On those days, wear the zinc version during the day.
- If you already have darkening or uneven tone. While your skin is still finding its way back to wholeness, the zinc version protects the spots that have already formed from deepening further. Use it during the day while you are healing.
In both cases, always remove the zinc properly with your Flow Ritual when you come home. Zinc sits on top of the skin; it doesn't absorb. It must come off. Then, if your budget allows, after your flow ritual layer the Sun Elixir Face on top at night so your skin recovers fully. The zinc version is a bridge. It is not a destination.
As your skin evens out, you will find you don't need it anymore. You will simply use the Sun Elixir Face and let your skin meet the light directly.
A more honest answer
If you ask me what I would personally do — even with darkening — I will tell you the truth.
Aren't you thirsty for some real human-to-human talk?
So, what would Ezgi do?
I would trust my body. I would do the Flow Ritual religiously, patiently, lovingly. I would apply the Sun Elixir Face on top, show my face to the morning sun, avoid the peak hours, and let my body learn.
I would build a skin that is resilient, not a skin that is protected from.
This comes from somewhere real.
When I told the world I was done with my injections, that I was going to find a way to heal myself from MS, everybody laughed.
They tried to scare me. "You're playing Russian roulette with your brain, Ezgi."
And while I was hearing all of that, one quiet thought kept returning to me: the people who have achieved the impossible, nobody believed them either.
I am going to take a chance on me. None of you looks inspiring, I said quietly.
There was a stretch when my legs went numb. The fear in that moment was enormous.
The easy thing, the expected thing, would have been to run back to the injections.
I did the opposite. I doubled down on my meditations.
I trusted my body the way I am asking you to trust yours.
And I healed.
That experience taught me something life-changing.
The people who truly heal are the ones who become more resilient.
Avoidance does not build resilience. A growing list of things to fear does not build resilience. Feeding the body, trusting the body, exposing yourself with care to what you were made for, that builds resilience.
Of course, avoid what is genuinely harmful: ultra-processed food, conventional skincare, the obvious things. But not nature. Not the sun. Not the winter. Not the cold. Not the foods your body is currently learning to meet again.
If I were you, I would not freak out at a little darkening. I would trust my body and, like a teacher, I would teach my body how to receive the sun. I would turn the whole ritual into a meditation.
Am I fearless? No. I have fears like everybody. Different fears for different things.
What I do with my fears, that is the work.
I find someone who has overcome the fear I am facing. I study what they did. And then I do the same.
I face it.
The more fears you face, the freer your life gets.
Have you noticed that?
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We came here to taste this earth.
My soul made the decision to land here, and I want the full experience of it. I don't want to leave having lived smaller than I could have.
I want to live wider.
That is what I want for you, too.
And if someone like me, someone who truly healed something, hides herself, that is a disservice to the world.
So I will not hide.
And I am asking you, gently: don't hide either.
So, to summarise
- Daily practice: Flow Ritual + Sun Elixir Face, morning and night. Prepare in the morning, recover at night.
- Daytime, only when needed : Sun Elixir Face with Zinc, for the few genuinely intense days, or while you are healing visible darkening. Always remove with your Flow Ritual at night, and recover with the Sun Elixir Face on top.
The direction of travel: Toward not needing the zinc version at all. Toward a skin that meets the light and uses it.
Show your face to the sun.
Recover at night.
Gather memories.
Wider, not narrower. Bolder, not smaller.
With all my love,