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By clearacne On March 4, 2010No CommentsCauses of Oily Skin
Oily skin is caused by over activity of the sebaceous glands and is thicker in texture. The skin has enlarged pores that may be filled with oil and debris; comodones and white heads are present. The skin is sallow in appearance. It is more prone to pimples and blemishes due to its obver lubrication by excessive oil, but less prone to wrinkles and some fine lines. The oil helps to keep moisture in the skin from evaporating and forms the acid mantle.
Some of the most common causes of oily skin are:
- Clogged Pores
- Humidity and heat
- Acne creams or cleansers that causes dry skin
- Teenage: Puberty – Hormonal Trigger activated sebum production.
- Menstruation: Days before cycle begins when extrogen levels are low.
- Menopause: Hormonal imbalance decrease amounts of estrogen and increase of androgen stimulates sebaceous glands.
7 Simple Steps To Oil Free Skin:
- Wash your face 1 to 2 times daily with good old soap and water (I higly recommend you wash your face every time after a workout and every nite before you sleep). Pack a premoistened cleansing pad if you won’t be around a water basin throughout the day.
- Steam your skin (face) 3-4 times a week. Add chamomile, lavender oil or dried herbs such as rosemary, parsley or thyme to the water.
- Keep your skin hydrated by drinking at least eight glasses of water a day.
- Consume more fresh vegetables, fruits and whole grains.
- Reduce fats and oils to a minimum in your diet as those can stimulate oil glands.
- Reduce sun exposure to a minimum. Too much sun exposure will also stimulate the production of oil.
- Use a clay or mud mask once a week. You can make your own facial mask by mixing green clay powder with honey and 1 teaspoon of powdered milk. Leave it on for about 15 minutes and then rinse.
Other Do It Yourself Mask You May Want To Try
- Fruit Mask – Mash up a small amount of papaya for your own fruit acid mask. Smear it on your skin, leave it on for 5 to 10 minutes, then rinse.
- Adzuki Bean Scrub – buy adzuki beans at the health food store and grind them into a fine powder in a blender or coffee grinder. Put about a teaspoon in the palm of your hand, add a few drops of water and make into a paste. Scrub your face with this homemade paste once a day and you’ll find that your pores will become less clogged and your face will stay clean longer.
- Tea Tree Oil – apply tea tree oil on your skin every night
More Tips for Oily Skin
If your skin become dry and taut, it means the outer layer has shrunk and the oil will not be able to flow freely and more pores will clog.
- Humidity and heat will increase oil production and intensify breakouts. So try to stay cool at all times.
- Using a clay or mud mask once a week is another good way to cleanse your skin and combat the oil production.
- Use only noncomedogenic moisturizers and sunscreen products because these are oil-free and won’t clog pores.
- Avoid taking hot or cold showers or bath. Hot water can strip your skin of needed moisture, while cold water can shock your skin.
- Avoid using cleansers or acne cream that tends to overdry your skin. This will cause your skin to produce even more oil than it normally does.
- Skin must not be treated too harshly nor washed too often.
- Chose a mild cleanser that promises to clean without drying, and wash with lukewarm, not hot, water.
- Aim for washing your face two or three times a day, and, between cleansings, wipe away excess oil with either an antibacterial astringent or one containing acetone, which dissolves oil.
The Best Diet for Oily Skin
The treatment for oily skin should start internally. This means, take care of your physical and mental health and your skin will benefit. Eat balanced meals, and make sure that you receive the necessary nutrition for good health each day.
Normal weight and good health are served best by diets that include daily servings of all the food groups. The B vitamins are especially important for skin health and are found in wheat germ, egg yolk, Brewer’s yeast, organ meats, nuts and beans. A lack of Take vitamin B2 can cause your skin to produce more oil.
Reduce the amount of fat, oil, and sugar in your diet, and you will be repaid with fewer skin problems, but that is because your general health will improve. Sebaceous glands operate independent of diet.
Because food grown in nutrient-depleted soil can be depleted of essential vitamins and minerals, it is important to add a supplement or two to your diet. Start with a multivitamin suitable for your age and sex, and then add some extra vitamin A (so that you are consuming about 10,000 IU daily) and the vitamin B complex. Primrose oil (500 milligrams) and flaxseed oil (1,000 milligrams) are both very beneficial for the skin.
Drink lots of water to help flush toxins out of your body with the help of your kidneys and liver rather than leaving it to your skin to bring toxins to the surface and eliminate them through perspiration. “Lots of water” is generally defined as eight glasses a day, and this amount also serves to hydrate your skin properly.
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By clearacne On March 4, 2010
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Acne occurs when your body contains more toxics than your kidneys and bowels can remove. (Your kidneys and bowels are the two primary channels of elimination that your body expel toxics and waste products through.)
These toxics can be the accumulation of fat stored chemicals the liver can not wash out or there may be a problem with fat digestion, fat accumulation, food allergy, or even the accumulation of hormones that your body produces.
Once these toxics build up, your kidneys and bowels can get overloaded and clogged up, causing it to not function properly. When that happens some of the load will be dumped onto your liver. One of your liver’s main roles is to metabolize pile up fat into usable energy for your body.
This means, your liver will be doing some of your kidney’s work. So now, your liver gets overloaded and it too will not work at full capacity.
What happens when your bowels, kidneys, and liver gets overloaded?
When that happen your body will expel toxins through your lungs and skin (your secondary channels of elimination). And this is when acne occurs. This is when your skin starts to breakout.
But whatever the toxic source is that‘s causing this problem, acne is a sign that your bowels and kidneys are overloaded with toxins, waste products, or hormones.
It is a sign that your liver is growing weaker in its detoxification abilities (and it will continue to grow weaker if you do not do what it takes to get rid of the toxics in your body).
So if you think that acne is your only problem, think again, your liver, kidneys, and bowels are getting weaker every time you breakout.
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By clearacne On February 28, 2010
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Limes mix with milk have a soothing affect on acne and can help you get rid of acne fast. It calms and relieves the redness that acne causes. Therefore, it makes your pimples less noticeable and smaller in just a few days.
And in some cases, it completely clears it.
Here’s how to do it:
- Wash your face with face wash and rinse it with cold water. Tap it dry with a soft cloth or towel.
- Boil about 8 ounce of milk and squeeze half of lime juice into the boiling milk and stir for a minute. Let it cool down a little and apply a small amount of the lime and milk mixture on your zits, pimples, acne, etc.
- Relax for about 10 minutes then rinse it off with cold water.
After a few days, you will see that the big pimples (acne) are smaller and not as red as it was before. And the small pimples may have completely disappear.
Should You Pop A Pimple Or Not?
Most experts would recommend you not pop your pimples at all. And in the past I’ve listen to that advice. And guess what happen…it left a bump on my nose (how embarrassing). I am still mad to this very day.
So if it’s ready to be pop, I highly recommend you pop it (but then again, that’s just my opinion). Here’s some guidelines:
- Before you pop, take a warm to hot shower and gently wash face and body. This will remove all dirt and oil. And it will also soften the skin and open up the pores.
- Only pop a zit that has a whitehead on top. If you try to pop it when it’s not ready yet, it will probably make the pimple bigger and increase the pain!
- Get a clean, new needle and gently pick the top of the whitehead.
- Wrap clean tissue or toilet paper around your fingers, or use gauze pads
- Gently squeeze the pimple with your finger tip and stop squeezing when blood or clear fluid begins to ooze out.
- Clean the pimple a pad or tissue and apply benzoyl peroxide or some oniment containing benzoyl peroxide. This will kill the bacteria in the pimple and stop it from growing again.
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By clearacne On February 28, 2010
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Here’s some helpful acne tips you can use immediately to help clear acne and minimize your chances of having a breakout again:
Over-The-Counter Acne Treatments You Can Use To Eliminate Facial And Body Acne:
- Buy Dandruff shampoos that contains zinc and salicylic acid or beta hydroxy. Zinc helps clear body acne, while salicylic acid or beta hydroxy helps prevent clogged pores.
- Apply a 2.5 benzoyl peroxide cream to affected area after cleansing. This will help kill bacteria that causes worsens acne.
- For body soap, I recommend antibacterial soaps. This helps clear acne on chest and back. Although I wouldn’t recommend you used it on your face as it can cause dryness.
- To soften skin and improve it’s appearance, use citric acid from fruits such as lemons and limes, and lactic acid, from milk. AHAs can also help improve the overall appearance and feel of skin. You can get AHAs from sugar cane.
- Tree Tea Oil is an ingredient most acne treatment companies include in their acne products. You can apply it directly to the skin or affected areas.
Here’s Some Tips You Can Implement Today To Prevent Future Breakouts
If you’re like me and would rather stop breakouts before it starts then consider the following:
- Stop stressing out – Stressing out can either cause acne or make them worse. However, you can easily relieve stress by doing some yoga, meditations, or deep breathing exercises. These three have been proven to relieve or completely eliminate stress. So pick one of them and do them whenever you stress out .
- Keep your skin clean – I highly recommend you gently wash your face with mild soap at least once a day and twice a day in the summer time.
- Drink at least 8 to 10 glasses of purified water a day – Water is extremely important in the detoxifying process. It acts as a catalyst to move acids out of the body. As a matter of fact, water is quite possibly the single most important contributor to healing and preventing acne flare-ups.
- Get tested for food allergies – In many adults, food allergies are the leading cause of acne, but many people do not realize that they have any allergies.
- Minimize consumtion of processed and bleached foods – foods such as white sugar and flour can elevated blood sugar and contribute to breakouts.
- Make sure you are getting enough vitamins and minerals – it will help your body function properly by making sure your body eliminates toxins through your bowels and not your secondary channels of elimination such as your skin.
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By clearacne On February 28, 2010
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You can prevent acne and minimize breakouts if you avoid eating these 6 types of foods that can cause and aggravate acne
Milk (casein), Yogurt, Cheese, and Whey Protein
Milk (casein), yogurt, cheese, and whey protein are some of the best mucus-forming, liver-clogging, and acne aggravating foods you could ever eat.
These food can cause:
- Congestive toxins to form in your blood and lymph due to allergies dairy products causes
- Upset hormonal balance due to the powerful growth hormones it contains.
- Pollutes blood and lymph fluid
- And clogs your liver
Simply put, it’s just like drinking or eating “glue”. If you ever bought Elmer’s Glue, you’ll see a cow label right on the back side of the bottle. This indicates that their glues are made from cows. In fact, this glue is derived primarily from cow’s milk proteins.
Anyways, your system can only digest about 50 percent of the primary protein in milk (casein). And the other 50 percent that wasn’t digested will enter the bloodstream and irritate the tissues causing allergies which leads to dirty blood.
White Rice, White Flour, Or Any Refined Grain Product
Another type of food that can clog your system are white rice, white flour, or any refined grain product. These are nothing more than starchy, nutrition-less, paste-like glue in your system.
These food can clog your system and cause mucus and toxin buildups (leading to acne breakouts). Not only that, they also strip away vitamins and minerals from your system.
Grains, Starches, and Excess Sugar
These are also foods that can clog your system. However, they are okay to eat if you have high metabolic rate or you eat it in small quantities with plenty of fiber-rich foods.
But if you’re eating too much of these, it will be broken down by your system into simple sugars that feeds candida… which will eventually result in more acne.
Egg White
Egg whites also has a glue-like quality and are very difficult for your system to digest. Egg white also enters the blood stream directly causing many types of allergies.
Protein in Excess
Protein in excess can cause your blood cells to stick together and give your blood and lymph a sludge-like quality.
Cooked Food In Excess
Foods that are cooked forms acid in your system. So if you happen to cook your foods, try to cook them lighly by lowering the temperature. This way, it’ll be less acid and mucus-forming.
If possible, I recommend you eat your foods raw.
And there you have it. Those are the 6 foods you should stay away from if possible to help prevent acne.
Learning the type of food that clogs up your system is one of the most critical parts of having long-lasting acne free skin.
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