Your Skin is Important

• Skin Care
• Caring For Your Skin Through The Seasons
• Crow's feet: The cause and the cure
• Insect Repellant and skin care
• Keeping the skin soft: Not just for girls
• Preventing Acne
• Steambaths, Saunas: Good or Bad
• The cause of dry itchy skin
• The skin of your feet
• Treating Acne
• Your Skin and the Sun

• Wrinkles
• A Quick Look on Wrinkles
• Does stress cause wrinkles?
• Facial excercises and wrinkles
• How do we get wrinkles?
• How to combat crows feet
• How to prevent wrinkles
• How to slow down the process of getting wrinkles
• Laser surgery and wrinkles
• Natural remedies for wrinkles
• Remove wrinkles with botox
• What exactly is in wrinkle creams?

• Network
• Stretch Marks

Preventing Acne

In the local drugstore in every town in the United States, there is an aisle overflowing with acne medications. Creams, ointments, lotions, nearly anything that can be applied to the skin can be found amongst pads, cleansers and treatments. This dedication to treating acne and it's outbreaks is well known, as many teenagers have filed into and out of this aisle, clutching various skin care products as if they were the very means of their salvation. Unfortunately, there is far less attention paid to preventing acne from forming in the first place. No doubt there is far more profit in the treating of acne than the prevention of it.

But preventing acne is no harder than treating it's symptoms, considering how many teens spend hours applying special creams and ointments to stop the spread of acne across their face. The emphasis on treating the advanced outbreaks of acne almost completely ignores the concept of stopping the acne outbreak from occurring at all. While teens line up for the products and medicines that treat the symptoms of acne, there is almost no concerted effort to ascertain the cause of acne and how it can be prevented.

The key to successfully treating acne is knowing the cause and understanding the roots of the problem. Acne is caused by dirt that gets captured in the pores of the skin, most frequently on the face but sometimes in other areas as well. The reason that teenagers tend to suffer more from acne is because of the increased oiliness of their skin. During the teenage years, the skin produces far more oil than at any other time in the life of the individual, causing all manner of embarrassing skin problems. The oil works to trap more dirt and clog more pores, causing acne to explode into a full outbreak unless treated.

Armed with this knowledge of the cause of acne, the teen can use some basic common sense and a few tips from those in the know or that have experience with the subject. Since acne is caused by dirt, frequent bathing is an easy way to help prevent outbreaks. Utilizing an acne safe soap or oatmeal bar, scrub the skin clean in warm to medium hot water, carefully rinsing away excess soap or detergent. Repeat this process and rinse repeatedly.

The most important part of this process is the effectiveness of the rinse, as dried soap can cause acne more than even dirt itself. After washing the skin, apply whatever specialized cleansers that might be specific to the type of acne in question. After the shower, the skin will rapidly begin secreting oils that once again fill the pores, making it a wise choice to use the popular cleansing pads after bathing.

Reducing the dirt and oil present in the skin is a good start to preventing acne. These two key ingredients are the worst cause of acne and combined can cause seriously advanced forms of acne and other skin problems.

Some other ways of combating acne are frequent sun and bathing in the ocean's salty waters, known for it's ability to cleanse and speed the healing process.