10 Skin Care Tips that specifically Reduce Acne

Acne occurs around puberty, when skin oil glands starts producing excess oil, in skin pores containing hair follicles. These pores, when with excess oil receives dust, dead skin cells, they get clogged. These clogged pores, having hair follicles when get infected with bacteria, they results in red inflamed eruptions called acne. To reduce acne, you must wash your face twice a day. This is just one skin care tip. Like that there are around total 10 skin care tips that you need to follow to reduce acne. Lets discuss each of them in detail.

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Acne are known in youngsters with name of pimples. In youngsters, acne cause havoc in their confidence level. Their confidence level gets down because of looks damaged, due to appearance of acne on face. Their whole centre shifts on thought, when these acne will disappear. Acne disappear with their own pace, if you start taking treatment from doctor early and start following skin care tips.

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10 Skin Care Tips that specifically Reduce Acne-

1) Wash your face twice a day with oil free soap or face wash-

Your doctor will recommend you either oil free soap or face wash. Use that to wash your face.

• Clean your face with that twice a day, to clean skin of excess oil and dirt in acne eruptions. 
• Never use oil based soap or cream based face wash, they will worsen acne.

2) Do not prick your acne with hands-

That will spread acne more. When you prick acne, the secretions that leaks from that area, spreads on side by area and causes acne on nearby area.

• Even, if you touch the hands you used to prick acne, on other areas of face, it will cause acne there, by getting infection from hands that pricked acne.

3) Do not over scrub your face-

Scrubbing your face with oil free scrub is necessary, but do not over do it. Doing facial scrub just once a week or twice a week is more than enough.

• Doing facial scrub more than that will over dry your skin. Over dry skin excrete more oil than normal dry skin to moisturise it. 
• Over oil production than before, worsen acne eruptions more than before.

4) Use oil free sunscreen, while going outside in sunlight-

Before going out, apply oil free sunscreen on your skin. The reason being is sunlight, also over dry skin.

• Over dry skin not only produce more oil. It is also more prone to inflammation than normal dry skin. 
• Inflamed skin have more acne aggravation, worse than before it was exposure to sunlight.

5) Do not over do makeup-

The reason being, makeup clogs  pores of skin. In acne, skin pores of face are already clogged. With make up, they get clogged much more than they are without makeup.

• Because of that number of acne that worsen after using makeup, are much more increased than they are before makeup. 
• First of all do not use make up to prevent clogging of skin pores. But, if you have to then, use only aqua based makeup. Do not use oil based make up.

6) Clean your make up with aqua based cleanser, before sleeping-

Do not leave make up on your skin whole day and whole night. Wash it before sleeping, with aqua based cleanser.

• This is necessary to allow air ventilation, to clogged pores of skin. 
• Removing make up before sleeping, give skin time to repair itself, in duration of whole night.

7) Do not eat heavily fried or fatty food-

The reason being, they contain excess oil. In acne, skin is also producing excess oil already.

• If you give it more oil through heavily fried and fatty diet, then it get added to excess oil produced by skin, that result in more large acne and much increased in number.

8) Drink more water-

Hydrate your body by drinking more water. It flushes out excess toxic ions and free radicals, produced out of metabolism of food in body.

• Free radicals decrease immunity of body against bacteria that inflame skin in acne. They need to be flushed out of body, for that drink more water.

9) Consume more juicy fruits-

They also hydrate body and supply antioxidants to body, along with minerals and vitamins. Deficiency of vital nutrients also worsen acne more.

• Nourish your body with essential nutrients supplied by fruits, especially antioxidants. 
• They not only nourish, but also increase immunity of your body. 
• Antioxidants in fruits also flush out excess free radicals out of body.

10) Take less stress-

Stress or anxiety worsen the flare up of acne much more. To reduce stress, do meditation, yoga or morning walk. If reading or listening music reduce your stress, then do that.

So, that was all regarding 10 skin care tips that specifically reduce acne. Follow them along with taking medicinal treatment of acne from doctor.