Five Tips to Get Rid of Acne

On the Murad Skin Deep blog, we often focus on ways to get rid of acne that include acne treatment products and lifestyle choices around diet, stress, hydration and exposure to toxins. However, there are some basic, everyday skin care best practices that can actually work wonders in reducing blemishes and acne breakouts. Sometimes, getting clear skin can be as simple as breaking a bad habit. Here are five daily habits you may need to change to get healthy, clear skin.

Get Rid of Acne by Not Touching Your Face
It seems so simple, but acne is ultimately caused when your pores become clogged. Then blocked and trapped sebum (oil) creates a breeding ground for acne-causing bacteria. Every time you touch your face, you transfer dirt and oil to your skin that can contribute to the clogging of your pores. If you chronically touch your face, work on breaking the habit to reduce your acne breakouts.

Get Rid of Acne by Not Over-Washing Your Face
We commonly encounter acne sufferers who attempt to treat their acne by washing their face many times per day in order to remove excess oil. In fact, if you want to remove excess oil throughout the day, the best solution is to use a dry blotting cloth. When you wash your face too many times during the day, you can strip essential oils from your skin. Then, your skin simply produces more oil to compensate and you break out more. It’s recommended that you only wash your face twice per day—once in the morning and once at night.

Get Rid of Acne by Wearing Loose-Fitting Clothing
If your acne problem is primarily about back acne and body acne, then a simple shift in wardrobe can make a big difference. Get rid of tight-fitting clothing made of synthetic materials and replace it with looser-fitting clothing made of natural fabrics. Not only will you find you’re a lot more comfortable during the day, but you’ll also stop trapping excess dirt and oil against your back and body. That means fewer clogged pores and less body acne breakouts.

Get Rid of Acne by Giving Up Smoking and Soda Pop
We hope you don’t smoke and that you drink only minimal amounts of unhealthy soda pop to begin with. However, if that’s not the case, kicking these two bad habits can have a huge impact on your skin. Every time you inhale from a cigarette, toxins rush into your system and destroy your skin’s health, both now and in the future. The high amounts of caffeine and sugar in soda pop can create extra activity in your adrenal gland and aggravate hormonal acne. Live healthy and you’ll have clear skin.

Get Rid of Acne by Not Picking at Pimples
The worst thing you can do if you want to get rid of your acne breakouts is to pick at or “pop” existing pimples. This irritates the skin around the blemish and can cause even more breakouts as bacteria breaks through the pore wall underneath the skin. In addition, picking can create long-lasting post-acne marks and scars. You’d certainly like to minimize the need for an acne scar treatment or a post-acne mark treatment after you’ve cleared up your acne breakouts! Minimize current acne breakouts and future marks and scars by not touching your existing blemishes. At all. We mean it!

Making a few simple changes such as these can help you get clear, acne-free skin. Change, no matter how small, is always hard, but minding these five tips is worth the effort in your journey to beautiful, healthy skin.

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