7 Tips To Reduce Your Acne

Common Sense Tips To Help Reduce and Control Your Breakouts!

Here’s seven simple, basic but powerful tips that may help you to reduce your acne:

Eat a balanced diet
Whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables contain valuable natural phytochemicals and antioxidants that promote healing.

Cosmetic care
Choose products that are “non-comedogenic” or “non-acnegenic”. Remove all traces of cosmetics at the end of every night and shield your face when applying hairsprays and gels.

Avoid contact with your skin
Headbands, hats even hair can irritate already sensitive skin and increase your bacterial levels.

Don’t pop pimples
This is a big no-no! Resist the temptation to ‘zap those zits’ because it can cause further infection and scarring to your skin.

Wash and rinse throughly
Regular washing will get rid of any dead skin, oil and bacteria. Be careful not to be to vigorous and do not use of strong soaps or detergents – gentle cleansing is the order of the day here.

Take plenty of exercise
Physical activity increases the blood flow and oxygen to the surface of your skin.

Drink lots of water
This helps in eliminating and ‘flushing out’ your cellular metabolic wastes.

No-one knows the exact cause of acne or even what triggers it, but following the above common-sense ways to avoid acne should help you in reducing and controling your breakouts.

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