Acne Products

Chances are, if you’re reading this article, you’ve had or are living with acne. It’s a constant struggle to keep the nasty bumps off your face. While it’s most prevalent in teenagers, acne is usually the sum of many things—out-of-control hormones and clogged-up pores (with things like grease, grime and even dead skin cells).

Acne-free skin requires a daily, progressive regimen of cleansing and treating. It also includes (if you haven’t yet begun to have an outbreak) using good hygiene practices and keeping clean to prevent outbreaks. While doing that can even fail sometimes, you will still have great arsenal of weapons to use against acne.

#1 rules to abide by:

• Avoid oily, greasy fast food as much as possible. Avoid any makeup that contains, especially, comedogenics—these oil-based products will only irritate your face more.
• Carefully observe labels on cosmetics and creams; products with lanolin, in addition to “comedogenics” should be eliminated from your choices.
• Shower twice a day, and use a gentle, natural soap to carefully wash your face and other affected spots. Never rub or scrub them too hard, as you’ll likely provoke even more irritation.
• Never, ever use your fingernails to pop a “zit”. Besides all of the bacteria-laden oils and grease underneath them, you could seriously infect your sebaceous glands (the glands that you are, in fact, treating).
• Mild and only occasional breakouts usually do not warrant anything more than keeping your skin clean and using a couple of over the counter products.
• However, a severe case (which usually consists of whiteheads, blackheads and nasty cysts) needs to be treated by a dermatologist. Over the counter drugs and creams will probably not be effective weapons, at all. You still want to keep your skin very clean, however.

An acne-free face and body is something many teens dream about. The more breakouts you have, the longer the treatment cycles are going to last. However, all hope is never lost and you will eventually win the war against acne.
Products with low-levels of benzoyl peroxide or salicylic acid are generally good for breakouts, but do not go overboard and do not get the highest strength. The ones with the highest strengths are the ones that are most likely to further dry-out and irritate your skin.
Other products work just as well with mild-to-moderate acne. Astringents (used moderately) are great for cleansing the skin of excess oil. Other, more household-like products include:
• Garlic—organic cloves which are topically applied
• Vitamin A vitamin supplements, as well as around 45-50 mg of zinc
• There’s also a hodgepodge of herbs/teas out there that have varying results.

Being acne-free is not only something you do for your health, but it’s also something you do to keep any self-esteem you might have left after a breakout. Teenagers are especially vulnerable to the mockery of their friends.

Acne is detrimental to your social life to say the least; it is embarrassing and lowers your self-esteem considerably. When you’re young, the stigma is much worse–because, as we all know very well–children can be cruel to their peers who have even the slightest of socially unacceptable differences in appearance.