The 3 Things You Can Do To Get Rid of Acne
Acne, pimples,
zits, you know what I mean. Most of us will suffer from acne at least
once in our lives. Some of us in fact, will have acne over and over again.
It wont
kill us, but its not very nice.
There are
three things that you can do to stop acne before it becomes a real problem.
If these things dont work, dont feel like there is nothing
left to do, there are lots of special creams available and even your doctor
can give you one that is sure to work.
1. Keep
your skin clean
Pimples dont
happen because our faces are dirty or because we dont wash ourselves
properly.
They happen
because the pores in our skin sometimes get clogged. It is natural for
our skin to have some oil; this is what keeps it soft and young.
However,
sometimes our skin makes much more oil than it can use. This oil gets
thick and gluggy and just sits on the skin; all the while more oil is
being made and cant make it to the surface to wash way.
After a little
while it blocks up the skin completely and our skin gets irritated. This
is when the red splotchy marks come out. Sometimes the clogged skin even
gets infected, this is when the pimples come out.
It is important
to wash our faces well twice a day. Be careful not to scrub hard at your
face and the acne.
Instead of
helping it this can make it worse. Scrubbing hard hurts the skin that
is already damaged and more pimples will start because it was made vulnerable.
Dont
use soaps that are meant for the rest of your body. Use a gentle soap
for sensitive skin. If you already have some acne you can get a special
soap or liquid cleanser with antiseptic in it.
This fights
off the infection.
Using normal
soap can dry out our skin.
If we dry
out the oils that our skin needs to stay healthy it will work harder and
faster trying to make more oil.
2. Drink
lots of water
To keep our
skin healthy we should drink lots of water.
It is recommended
that we should drink six to eight glasses of water every day. Other drinks
like soda and milk cannot be used instead of water.
Water cleans
our bodies from the inside. Water takes oxygen through our blood and washes
away toxins caused by the left over waste. It cleans out all of our bodies
operating system and vital organs that keep us healthy.
Our largest
vital organ is in fact our skin. So water washes the top of our skin when
we splash it on, and it washes the underneath of our skin when we drink
it.
3. Be
careful of what you eat.
What you
put into your body is what you get out of it. If you eat junk, your body
will make junk. There are everyday foods (vegetables for example) and
occasional foods (fast food for example).
If you eat
occasional foods all the time it is not only bad for your health, it is
very bad for your skin.
Food that
is not good for your skin is fatty and has too many sugars. Our body does
need some sugar but not the type of sugar that people normally ingest.
The sugars
that occur naturally in fruit are very good for us. Unfortunately drinking
fruit juice does not always give us this sugar.
Most fruit
juice drinks have been processed and all the natural sugar is lost, so
sugar as a sweetener is added to make the fruit sweet again.
It is best
to eat your fruit and drink water.
After all
we cant eat our water , and we still need to have both water and
fruit. The sugar that candy is made out of is bad sugar; the sugar in
fruit is good sugar.
Be sure to
eat plenty of green vegetables.
Green vegetables
have plenty of vitamins that work to keep our bodies healthy.
Too much
red meat isn't good for us either. You should have some red meat. However,
you should eat more vegetables than meat. Be sure to eat fish some days
instead of lots of red meat every day.
Sometimes
no matter what we do to stop acne from starting we will get it anyway.
Have a good
acne treatment ready to apply to the first pimple you see.
Stop him
fast before he has a chance to invite his friends to a party (on your
face).
If your acne
becomes a real problem even after doing everything right, dont worry,
you can see a doctor who will prescribe some strong cream to do the job.
Acne can
be embarrassing, but remember that everyone gets it. You dont have
to live with it, if it is persistent your doctor can help you.
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