treatment of body acne
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>> Homepage >> Acne Cause >> Prevention & skin purification >> Adult acne >> cure acne?? >> Body skin breakouts >> clear complexion & maintenance treatment
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Back, shoulders, upper arms are areas of the body more prone to acne. Body lesions are more resistant to most treatments and more likely to persist even in thirties and forties both in males and females. Lifestyle routines play a major role and should be considered seriously in control of lesions on the body. Here we have provided you with simplistic lifestyle tips to control your body skin breakouts. 1. Do not use any type of soap to wash your body. Instead use a pH balanced body wash or a hair shampoo to wash your body. Acne patients show higher than normal skin's pH and soap can aggravate this situation. 2. Daily showers are of crucial importance for treatment of acne especially on the body. Not daily hot showers! Try cold to lukewarm daily showers. 3. Do not use any harsh scrubing cloth to wash your body. Use a soft sponge. Your skin is even more sensitive to acne in certain areas of your body for instance, back and chest. These areas are very sensitive to mechanical stimulation. 4. Once-a-week hot bathes are great addition to your body hygiene routine. Bring the water to about 50C, the hotest you can tolerate. You can find Epsom salts or Deadsea salts in any drugstore. Add one cup to your hot tub. If you can add a cup of dried chamomile to the hot water that would be good too. If not that's ok. Add your shampoo to this hot water. Stay in there for at least 20 minutes and relax. If there is a fan in your bathroom, turn it off. You should sweat. Turn the lights off and lit a candle. Try to relax. Do not overdo this. This simple bath is detoxifying. However doing it more than once a week could cause acne breakouts and it is of no help to alleviate acne lesions on your back. 5. Do you exercise? If not you should. If you do, do you take a shower right after? Body breakouts right after exercise for those who don't wash their body is very likely. Afer exercise, while your skin is still moist, the body environment is very vulnerable to oppurtunistic bacteria. Taking a shower leaves your skin clean and much less prone to acne by interfering the action of oppurtuistic bacteria always present on your skin. Staphylococcus epidermidis and corynbacterium acne are pathogens involved in back acne lesions as well as facial acne. 6. Hormonal imbalance is common to a great extent in overly-stressed males and females over the age of 25. Excess androgens in males and females can cause acne. An example is polycytic ovary which is assoicatied with hirsutism and acne in females. Production of androgens in this disorder makes the skin more prone to acne. Hormonal imbalance could result in acne breakouts especially in areas of body such as chest and back. Exercise can elminiate the tensions , increase microcirculation of the skin and let your body endocrine system regulate itself. Remember twenty minutes, three times a week will do. 7. What do you wear? Cotton shirts are so great in that they let your skin breath and not touch your skin too much. Mechanical stimulation of the skin more sensitive to acne can cause breakouts. This mechanical stimulation includes your hair topped with styling products hanging on the forehead. If you wear anything tight, try not to sweat too much. If you did, wash your clothes before wearing them next time. 8. How about sun lights? How does it affect my body having acne? Sunlight may calm your inflammatory acne temporarily. However, this effect will soon go away. Sunlight will not treat back acne. If you are exposing your body to sun rays, wear a sunscreen and wash your body as soon as you are home. Should it be an oil free sunscreen? No, oil free products do not necessarily help your skin or improve your acne. Making your skin too dry is an over stimulation to sebaceous glands. 9. I have this red, inflamed acne on my chest and back, is there anything that can help calm it? If there is nothing available such as a body treatment for acne prone skin, try a solution of benzoyl peroxide 3%. You can find it in any drugstore. This solution will not treat you acne, however, it can prevent from getting it too inflamed and large. It can help with control of skin breakouts on the body. 10. Is that right that I have to wear water-based moisturizers on my body? Absolutely not. This all depends on the type of moisturizer you use. Most oil-based moisturizers contain pore-cloggings fats you should avoid. However if a moisturizer is good enough to contain nourishing oils such as omega-3-contained oils, naural sebum-like oils, linoleic acid, it not only improves your skin but helps to treat your excess oil excretion. Borage oil, Jojoba, Rosehip, Walnut oil, Hemp seed oil all are good oils that a good moisturizer may contain. Do not mislead by over-the-counter moisturizers in your local drug store though. On the label you may see contain Jojoba or sometimes at the back of the bottle where the ingredients written. However, Jojoba, for example, is only a tiny fraction( less than 1%) of that cream or lotion. Creams containing nourishing natural oils can regulate sebum secretion and help with treatment of chest, shoulders, back and arms lesions.
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