What’s the largest organ in your body? It’s your skin! Your skin is a living, breathing body part that serves many important functions. It’s helps to eliminate toxins (one of the reasons sweat smells bad!), and it helps to regulates body temperature (natural air conditioning!), as it protects you from environmental toxins and pathogens.
If you give your skin what it needs instead of chemicalizing it and beating it into submission, you’ll see rapid and lasting improvement. You’ll look youthful and sexy and people will notice how good you look.
On the other hand, by constantly doing the following, you are weakening the natural protecting capabilities of your skin, you are slowing the healing process of your skin, and are making your skin look bad and making your acne worse:
Smoking. Smoking causes heart disease, cancer and the thinning of your skin. Your skin has to have blood flow to cleanse the toxins that cause acne. smoking will reduce your physical activity (exercise) which you need in order to be healthy and fit. In many ways, smoking CAUSES acne!
Topical Steroids: OTC (over-the-counter) or prescription cortisone creams can cause your skin to thin which will worsen your acne. In addition to the irritation, redness and other side effects can result. Topical cortisone creams address the symptoms of acne (inflammation, itching, puss), but they do not treat the root cause of acne. Obviously, you have to take care of your skin, but you should do it gently using pure natural substances, such as diluted tea tree oil.
ANTIBIOTICS: Your body is host to billions of bacteria, some of them good and some of them not so good. You need a healthy population of bacteria like acidophilus in your digestive tract in order to digest your food. Antibiotics kill good bacteria as well as bad bacteria. “Good” bacteria protect you from parasites and bacteria. Antibiotics can cause stress and damage to your liver, so be careful to follow your doctor’s orders. If you take antibiotics at the advice of a doctor, eat acidophilus-containing foods like yogurt every day.
Four-In-One Razors: Four-in-one razor blades can irritate bumps and painful cysts. Blades that guarantee the “closest possible shave” can cause severe irritation and they can damage your skin. Always use a single blade when you have active acne. Love your skin. Give it a break.
Four-in-Ones can cause permanent scarring if used improperly. If you have bumps, scabs (from squeezing), or cysts, use a single-blade cartridge.
Popping your Pimples. If you feel anxious about your acne, you might feel compelled to squeeze your zits. Here’s a friendly word of advice: DON’T! If you pop your acne pustules you’ll do two things. A) drive the bacteria and pus deeper into the pore, and B) cause scars. While popping your acne may seem like a good thing to do right now, you’ll pay for it down the road: scars caused by squeezing acne “heads” NEVER go away. There are safe ways of extracting small whiteheads or blackheads but you would be wise to leave that to a skin care professional.
Excessive Vitamin A. Concentrated doses of any supplement are not NATURAL and they are not always SAFE. Every year, people are hospitalized from overdoses of vitamins. Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin, which means that it’s not easily flushed from the body, like Vitamin C. Vitamin A from green leafy vegetable and fruits can be very helpful in resolving acne, but taking too much can cause liver damage. Always read and follow the dosage instructions on the bottle. they’re there for a reason!
STEROID CREAMS FOR ROSACEA. It’s just common sense that you should avoid using preparations that cause redness and swelling on rosacea. Always consult a skin-care professional before using steroid creams on rosacea.
Acne can damage one’s self-image. In some ways, it can be worse than a more debilitating disease. Luckily, acne is not permanent and most cases can be resolved by making a number of minor lifestyle changes. No pill or potion can address the root causes of acne–that’s up to the individual–and no chemical “fix” will eliminate acne forever. By making a few lifestyle changes, you can get rid of your acne quickly, easily, and permanently.
Yes there really is a natural treatment for acne and zits. Before you spend another day suffering and before you spend another PENNY on acne medicines, visit TreatmentForAcneAndZits.com for news and ideas that can help.