Acne: Mistakes to Avoid

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Acne is one of the most common disorders of the skin. It affects mostly young people but can also affect adults.

The tratment for acne involves the use of specific products, in some cases prescribed by the dermatologist.

But it is essential, first of all, avoid those errors that can compromise healing.

• Squeeze pimples. It should not be done as not to leave scars and marks that are very difficult to delete. Your hands and nails can also overinfect the pimples and thus slow their healing. However, if the error has been committed, is a good idea to clean the skin with a non-alcoholic disinfectant or a sweet soap.

• Do not take care of the hygiene of the face. Wash with mild soap or a specific product is especially important if you spend much time indoors without air exchange and after exposure to smog, humidity, dust, or after sports.

• Degrease the skin with alcoholic lotions in order to inhibit the production of sebum. This will trigger a rebound effect: the skin, overly defatted, increases the production of sebum to restore the natural hydro-lipid layer.

• Sun exposure in order to dry out pimples. A short and protected exposures may help, but on the contrary, a prolonged and unprotected exposures (or with a fat and occlusive protective cream ) irritate the skin and therefore, even if there may be a temporary improvement, the acne reappears after a few days and more important than before. In addition, the sun, that dry the skin, triggers the same mechanism of rebound seen before.

• Hide the acne with a foundation and a compact powder. Many make up products, if they are not specific for oily skin, can occlude the pores and thereby cause the arise of impurities. In addition the trick, if done poorly, may highlight, not hide, the acne lesions.

• Use steroid creams. For their anti-inflammatory power may temporarily improve the situation, but the cortisone has the effect to worsen acne.

• Do not take care of nutrition. Recently some studies have shown that there is no correlation between acne and food, therefore foods that usually were blamed for causing acne (salami, fried foods, chocolate) now are acquitted. But let us not forget that an impure body, full of toxins, always manifests itself through the skin. A healthy diet rich in fruit and vegetables is therefore useful to clean from inside, as is also useful to drink plenty of water and purifying herbal teas. In addition, everyone can know if a particular food worsens the situation, just be careful and listen to our body.

• Smoking. Although it is not demonstrated the effect on acne, there is no doubt that smoking, reducing the skin oxygenation, contributes to have an unclean skin. Another good reason to quit smoking!

• Be under stress. Stress seems to increase the production of sebum and so it must be avoided. If you can not avoid stressful situations, you can always work on yourself to change your response to stressful situations.

• Be discouraged if the treatments do not take effect immediately. Acne needs time to heal.