Women's Health Blog

Whether you’re suffering from teen acne, hormonal acne, or adult acne, you must use acne cleansers to help you clear up your face. Acne often starts from the inside and works its way out, but you still must use acne cleansers to control and regulate the amount of oil your skin produces so excess oil does not formulate more acne on your skin.

Choosing an acne cleanser that’s right for you can be difficult. I know when my acne first crept up when I was a teenager, I was able to just pop on into Walmart and grab their generic facial cleanser. It worked great for me for a couple years. Then, my skin changed, my acne worsened, and I had to graduate to a new level of facial cleansers. Unfortunately, instead of starting out with a cleanser like SkinMedica, I opted for the Clinique cleansing system.

While there’s nothing wrong with the Clinique cleansing system, I wish I had known about SkinMedica. With SkinMedica, for only $100, you get a facial foaming cleanser, a toner, and acne treatment lotion, and unlike other cleansers, these last for several months, so you don’t have to buy several acne treatment kits per year. Continue reading ‘Acne Cleansers: SkinMedica Acne Treatment Kit is the Best Acne Cleanser’ »

Most facial acne is caused by a collection of excess oil and trapped sebum in your skin’s pores. When this happens, an inflamed red spot appears on your face, usually known as a pimple, or a zit. If your spots multiply and stay for long periods of time, it’s safe to say you suffer from acne. Do you know what you need to combat this problem? You need an acne face wash, and soon!

Choosing just the right acne face wash isn’t easy, though. I myself get rather baffled standing in front of aisles and aisles of cleansers, toners, lotions, facial wipes, facial scrubs – you name it. Many of these are simply fads, the type you see on commercials for only $19.95 plus shipping and handling.

So I’m here to make the job easy for you. I’ll do you a favor and help you pick out just the right acne face wash for your skin. How do I know what will work for your skin? Well, I don’t, so I’ll just cheat a little bit. I’m going to tell you about a dermatologist’s best-kept secret face wash that works for almost everyone’s skin. It’s called SkinMedica. Continue reading ‘The Best Kept Secret Acne Face Wash for Your Skin’ »

When you’re trying to get rid of your acne quick, one great way you can relieve the pain, redness, itching, and swelling is by applying acne facials. And not just any facials – you’ll need just the right ones to keep your skin from getting worse. As a general rule, you’ll want to avoid facials with alcohol and other harsh astringents in them. Here’s some of the best acne facial options for your skin.

1. Orange peel: Mix up a paste of one tablespoon orange peel and one tablespoon water. Apply it to your face, let it dry for 10-15 minutes, and rinse it off with warm water. You can also use this on other parts of your body that are suffering from acne, including your back and chest.

2. Aloe vera: It’s not much of a facial, but when you need something quick, aloe vera does the trick. Just slather some aloe vera gel from the fridge onto your face and let it dry. You don’t need to rinse it off; in fact, you can sleep with it on if you want. Continue reading ‘Top Acne Facials for Your Face’ »

Have you ever stopped to wonder what lifestyle-related activities might be causing your acne? I’ll give you a hint; it’s not just things like eating chocolate and having oily skin that lead to nasty red bumps on your face, chest, and back; there’s lots of other factors that come into play with your acne. Here’s some of the causes of acne that you might not know about, as well as a solution for acne prone skin care that you might want to look into.

Causes of your acne could include:

1. Exercise: I love to work out, on my elliptical, the weight machine, stretches, free weights – you name it. But it wasn’t until I talked to my dermatologist about my lifestyle that she told me my exercise could be a contributing factor in my acne.

2. Hormones: It’s not just the hormones in your body that might be causing acne. Added hormones in milk, red meat, and other farm produce can lead to weight gain, early puberty, and acne in many individuals. Continue reading ‘Acne Prone Skin Care: What's Causing Your Acne, and How to Fix It’ »