Do not overwash the face. Washing the face too frequently can actually cause the body to make more oil because it tricks the body into thinking the face and oil ducts are dry. When washing the face, avoid harsh soaps or chemicals, and settle for more natural alternatives or simply use warm water and a soft washcloth. Do not over scrub, but lightly and gently rub the face with the cloth.

Prevention is better than cure. Proper cleansing is necessary if you want to keep your oily skin clear. I have oily skin and suffered from acne. That cleared when I followed my doctors’ advice to wash my face morning, noon and at bedtime everyday, using an antibacterial face wash she dispensed. Actually, any antibacterial face wash would do. If you don’t have pimples, then any good cleanser meant for oily skin would do the trick.

In the meantime the cold and flu season is still here, and will continue to be for yet another while, its best we do everything we can to make sure we don’t come down with something as well. Other than dressing appropriately and making sure we get the recommended dose of daily vitamins, doctors also tell us we should not touch our face too often if we don’t want to risk catching something.

For instance, we should definitely restrain ourselves from touching our face when we’re in public places, like the bus, a cab, the gym, or at work. Of course, it’s impossible to stay germ-free all day long, health experts say, but the least we can do is make sure we don’t make physical contact with objects that others have also touched, and then rub our hands all over our face or, even worse, our mouth.

In order to do that, we must constantly check ourselves to not rest the head on our palm when staring at the computer screen, for example, absently rub a part of our face while engaged in some other activity at work or, for women, apply lipstick or gloss with the finger. Similarly, we’re not to put objects into our mouth (pencil or pen), especially if they’ve been on a desk that others have touched as well – this goes especially for those who do this compulsively.

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Epidermis is the outermost layer of our skin. It contains no blood vessels, and cells in the deepest layers are nourished by diffusion from blood capillaries extending to the uppermost layers of the dermis. Skin is the largest organ in our body and one of the organs of elimination. Some serious skin complications, including a dry skin condition, can arise for people with type 2 diabetes. Dry skin when exposed to the elements, especially in winter, causes it to become drier and fine lines and wrinkles have a good chance to get a hold on your skin. And forced-air furnaces may make skin even drier than it already is.

Nutritional deficiencies, especially deficiencies of vitamin A and the B vitamin group can also contribute to dry skin and wrinkles or result in a chronic dry skin condition that’s not relieved by anything else. Dry skin happens more often in the winter when the cold air outside and heated air inside cause low humidity. If you break out on the skin around your eyes, it could be the shellac in your mascara. Then, if you break out around you mouth and nose it could be from your make-up lip liner or lipstick. Both these break-outs become severely dry. It’s less common knowledge but these breakouts can be from pesticides in your food that have brushed against your face. These skin conditions are actually contact dermatitis and become very dry.

The two most common problems that affect our skin are: not drinking enough water and not eating enough fiber. Eat at least one avocado every day; put it in your salad or mash it up and eat it with a spoon. When the skin is dry and dehydrated, dead skin cells remain on the skin which may block pores and promote acne, zits, blemishes, or other breakouts and cause fine lines and wrinkles to set in. Drink plenty of pure water. [Read more...]

While millions all over the world suffer its attack, at any given time, no one for certain knows what its exact cause is. But then, we can definitely know what the probable causes of acne in adult woman. The oil produced by the facial glands is known as sebum. Cells and sebum form a blockage in the gland, when hair follicles shed dead cells too quickly. What better conditions acne wants to appear on the face?

Tight garments and the pressure from their rubbing is also the cause of acne. They may irritate the acne condition further. Acne could also be the most unwanted gift from your parents, father or mother or both. It may not be the sole cause. But it can definitely be the contributory factor. Then the special problems related to women only, which could be the cause of acne. With every change in the phase of their life, the hormone levels change in a woman. And they experience acne. Adult women may also suffer acne, between two to seven days before menstrual cycle.

During pregnancy also, women experience fluctuations in her hormones levels. Even those adult women, who had no acne problems, have to face the music of acne, during pregnancy or at time when the baby is born. Acne will disappear only when hormone levels return to normal. [Read more...]