Ten Secrets to Avoid Acne

Your skin is your protector that meets and greets your external world. As your body’s largest organ, the skin serves as waterproof covering that helps keep out foreign invaders and protects against temperature changes and sunlight Your skin is tough and it can take a lot of punishment, but some things can make it look bad and weaken it.

Picking, Popping, or Squeezing
Popping zits doesn’t make things better; in fact, it often makes things worse. It’s tempting to think that squeezing them will help them heal more quickly — especially the swollen, red goobers filled with stuff! But scrunching these guys only pushes the inflamed gunk deeper and wider into the skin and that’s what most often results in scars.

Pre-tanning at a Salon
Pre-tanning at a tanning salon to get ready for the intense sun at the beach isn’t the great idea that it’s been cut out to be. In fact, whether you acquire a tan quickly or slowly, you still damage your skin. Just like the sun, artificial tanning equipment beds and sun lamps emit UV rays that can cause burns, premature aging, and skin cancers, especially if you’re a higher risk, fair-skinned person who produces less melanin.

Smoking
You’ve heard about the risks of smoking (like lung cancer, heart disease, and emphysema). But have you ever noticed that the skin of elderly smokers tends to have a yellowish coloration? Next to sun exposure, smoking is the highest factor in wrinkling. In other words, smoking makes you look older!

Taking Too Much Vitamin A
You may have heard that vitamin A helps to cure acne. What you may not know is that if you take too much of it, vitamin A can accumulate in your liver to dangerous levels and cause serious health problems. Get your vitamin A from veggies. Good sources include leafy greens (like spinach and watercress) and orange veggies (like sweet potatoes, pumpkin, and carrots).

Traveling the Perilous Peel and Dermabrasion Route
If your complexion is dark, you may run the risk of having streaking, uneven pigmentation after chemical peel or dermabrasion procedures. Moreover, if you scar easily or tend to form keloids, you should probably consider these procedures as being potentially too risky.

Treating Rosacea with Over-the-Counter Medications
Don’t try to go it alone when you have rosacea. You should discuss your rosacea skin-care with a dermatologist. That’s because folks who have rosacea tend to have red, inflamed, sensitive skin.

Applying Topical Steroids to Your Face
Okay, if you have a mild rash or itch, you can go to your local store and buy the over-the-counter, low-strength cortisone cream or ointment to treat the symptoms for a few days or so.

Shaving with Four-In-One Razor Blades
If you have acne, shaving bumps, or sensitive skin, those razors that guarantee the closest shaves aren’t for you. Ignore the ongoing battle between razor companies to see who can stick the most blades on a single disposable razor head.

Using Mystery Products
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn’t true. You may hear about alternative medications from friends, relatives, or the news media. Ads may suggest that alternative treatments can produce positive results in patients who have acne or rosacea.

Guaranteed cures
The problem with herbal medications is that it’s hard to know exactly what’s in them because there is no regulation regarding their contents. For example, there have been reports of actual harm caused by St. John’s wort, which has been found to make some people more sensitive to the sun.

Looking in the Mirror too Much
If you’re undergoing treatment for your acne, you should know that it won’t improve overnight and by examining it continuously, you just magnify any flaws — real or imagined.

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