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Top 10 Ways to Prevent Spots
1) Change You Pillowcase Every Other Day
2) Sleep With Your Hair Pulled Back
3) Keep Your Hands Off Your Face
4) Wash Your Face Once A Day
5) Use a Non-Comedogenic Lotion
6) Drop the Pepsi
7) Get A Good Night's Sleep
8) Stop Smoking
9) Give up Junk Food
10) Stop Stressing
Change Your Pillowcase
How often do you change your pillowcase? Once a week, twice a week, once a month? Gross. Every night when you lay your head down on your pillow, your hair transfers all of the hair products that you wear every day, like gel, wax and hairspray not to mention smog, grease, smoke and dirt, to your pillowcase. Ick.
Every night your face is pressed up against a breeding ground of bacteria created by the previous night's grime until the tiny terrorists conduct a full frontal assault on your chin. Depending on how oily your skin is and how often you wash your hair, change your pillowcase every day, every other day or every third day. You can pick up a set of 2 for around $5 at Target or any discount department store.
Sleep With Your Hair Pulled Back
Again, hair is the collector of all that is dirty, so if you keep it pulled back off your forehead and the rest of your face, you'll start to see a difference. If your hair is long, try sleeping with it pulled up on top of your head in a hair clip, if it's shorter, just pin it back with simple bobby pins. No big deal.
Hands Off
Do you know where your hands have been? Throughout the day your fingers pick up all kinds of dirt and germs that you can't see. Every time you touch your face, you coat your skin with the same dirt you picked up on everything from the subway to a dollar bill. So hands off. And it wouldn't hurt to wash your hands a little more often either!
Wash Your Face Once a Day
What's good for the hands is not good for the face. If you over cleanse your face, you will irritate the skin. Oil glands will rush into production and Ba Da Boom Ba Da Bing, you got problems all over your face. Use a mild face soap like Cetaphil at night after you take off your make up. Never go to bed with makeup on your face. In the morning just splash your face with water.
Moisturize with a Non-Comedogenic Lotion
Even if you have really oily skin, it still needs moisturizer. The trick is finding the right weight (thickness) for your skin. Unfortunately this is done through trial and error, but typically, the oilier the skin, the lighter you want to go on lotion thickness. You don't have to drop a lot of dinero to get a good moisturizer. But you should get a non-comedogenic moisturizer to keep pores from clogging. If it doesn't say non-comedogenic somewhere on the bottle, don't use it.
Drop the Pepsi
Brittany Spears may think it's great, but Pepsi and other soft drinks like Coca Cola, Mountain Dew and Dr. Pepper can really increase flare-ups if you're prone to acne. Actually, you should really avoid anything that ends in "ine"---that means caffeine---because caffeine acts as a diarrhetic and dehydrates skin. So if you're a coffee drinker and you have problems with breakouts, loosen the grip on your mug. If you can't live without caffeine, switch to tea. It still has caffeine but not as much.
Go to Bed
Your mother was right. It is important to get a good night's sleep. She may have had reasons other than healthy looking skin, but facts are facts. If you don't get in a good eight hours every night, your skin, not your brain, is the first to give it up. Try to go to bed and get up on a regular schedule.
Stop Smoking
This really should have been at the top of the list, but we were afraid puffers would be turned off and wouldn't read the rest of our tips. Swear to God, we're not making this up. Smoking clogs pores and cuts off oxygen to facial tissue, giving skin a dull gray color, and increases the likelihood of outbreaks. Don't believe us? Give it up for one week and see if you don't get compliments on your skin.
Stop Noshing on Fries
Junk food, fried food, foods that are primarily made up of words that sound like they belong in a lab experiment, are all guilty of making skin break out. Like your body needs any extra oil! We know you've heard it a million times, but reaching for an apple instead of a Ho Ho will help cut down on zits and you might even shave a few inches off your waist!
Lighten Up!
Now that you're completely stressed about all of the things you're doing that will make your face erupt, we hate to tell you this. Stressing out doesn't help either. Stress actually puts your hormones in a heightened state, hence the once-a-month breakouts, so lighten up. When someone makes your angry, you have a big test or a project do, take a deep breath and relax. Easier said than done, but breathing exercises practiced in Yoga can really help you keep it under control.
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1) Change You Pillowcase Every Other Day
2) Sleep With Your Hair Pulled Back
3) Keep Your Hands Off Your Face
4) Wash Your Face Once A Day
5) Use a Non-Comedogenic Lotion
6) Drop the Pepsi
7) Get A Good Night's Sleep
8) Stop Smoking
9) Give up Junk Food
10) Stop Stressing
Change Your Pillowcase
How often do you change your pillowcase? Once a week, twice a week, once a month? Gross. Every night when you lay your head down on your pillow, your hair transfers all of the hair products that you wear every day, like gel, wax and hairspray not to mention smog, grease, smoke and dirt, to your pillowcase. Ick.
Every night your face is pressed up against a breeding ground of bacteria created by the previous night's grime until the tiny terrorists conduct a full frontal assault on your chin. Depending on how oily your skin is and how often you wash your hair, change your pillowcase every day, every other day or every third day. You can pick up a set of 2 for around $5 at Target or any discount department store.
Sleep With Your Hair Pulled Back
Again, hair is the collector of all that is dirty, so if you keep it pulled back off your forehead and the rest of your face, you'll start to see a difference. If your hair is long, try sleeping with it pulled up on top of your head in a hair clip, if it's shorter, just pin it back with simple bobby pins. No big deal.
Hands Off
Do you know where your hands have been? Throughout the day your fingers pick up all kinds of dirt and germs that you can't see. Every time you touch your face, you coat your skin with the same dirt you picked up on everything from the subway to a dollar bill. So hands off. And it wouldn't hurt to wash your hands a little more often either!
Wash Your Face Once a Day
What's good for the hands is not good for the face. If you over cleanse your face, you will irritate the skin. Oil glands will rush into production and Ba Da Boom Ba Da Bing, you got problems all over your face. Use a mild face soap like Cetaphil at night after you take off your make up. Never go to bed with makeup on your face. In the morning just splash your face with water.
Moisturize with a Non-Comedogenic Lotion
Even if you have really oily skin, it still needs moisturizer. The trick is finding the right weight (thickness) for your skin. Unfortunately this is done through trial and error, but typically, the oilier the skin, the lighter you want to go on lotion thickness. You don't have to drop a lot of dinero to get a good moisturizer. But you should get a non-comedogenic moisturizer to keep pores from clogging. If it doesn't say non-comedogenic somewhere on the bottle, don't use it.
Drop the Pepsi
Brittany Spears may think it's great, but Pepsi and other soft drinks like Coca Cola, Mountain Dew and Dr. Pepper can really increase flare-ups if you're prone to acne. Actually, you should really avoid anything that ends in "ine"---that means caffeine---because caffeine acts as a diarrhetic and dehydrates skin. So if you're a coffee drinker and you have problems with breakouts, loosen the grip on your mug. If you can't live without caffeine, switch to tea. It still has caffeine but not as much.
Go to Bed
Your mother was right. It is important to get a good night's sleep. She may have had reasons other than healthy looking skin, but facts are facts. If you don't get in a good eight hours every night, your skin, not your brain, is the first to give it up. Try to go to bed and get up on a regular schedule.
Stop Smoking
This really should have been at the top of the list, but we were afraid puffers would be turned off and wouldn't read the rest of our tips. Swear to God, we're not making this up. Smoking clogs pores and cuts off oxygen to facial tissue, giving skin a dull gray color, and increases the likelihood of outbreaks. Don't believe us? Give it up for one week and see if you don't get compliments on your skin.
Stop Noshing on Fries
Junk food, fried food, foods that are primarily made up of words that sound like they belong in a lab experiment, are all guilty of making skin break out. Like your body needs any extra oil! We know you've heard it a million times, but reaching for an apple instead of a Ho Ho will help cut down on zits and you might even shave a few inches off your waist!
Lighten Up!
Now that you're completely stressed about all of the things you're doing that will make your face erupt, we hate to tell you this. Stressing out doesn't help either. Stress actually puts your hormones in a heightened state, hence the once-a-month breakouts, so lighten up. When someone makes your angry, you have a big test or a project do, take a deep breath and relax. Easier said than done, but breathing exercises practiced in Yoga can really help you keep it under control.
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