Acne Breakouts - 10 Easy Ways To Prevent Acne Breakouts
If you find your face suddenly affected by a huge amount of acne
, you can say that if acne breakouts have already occurred to your face. Preventing future breakouts is the best action since acne breakouts can't be stopped if they have already occurred.
How to prevent breakouts:
a. Never touch your face as bacteria and dirt in your hands can clog the face pores and make acne worse.
b. Avoid wearing heavy make up. You can change it by wearing water-based make up.
c. Wash hair regularly and keep it off your face.
d. Avoid sweating as it can clog pores leading to acne breakouts.
e. Reduce eating junk food, reprocessed foods. You can change it by eating more vegetables and fruits.
f. Reduce stress.
Stress will stimulate sebaceous glands to produce more sebum leading to acne breakouts. Exercise is one of the best way you can try to reduce stress.
g. Avoid bad acne treatment.
The examples of bad acne treatment: using wrong cosmetics, harsh cleanser, bad cream or facial mask which is not designed for your skin.
h. Never Wash your face too much.
Washing face is good to remove bacteria and dirt in your face pores. However, it is not recommended for you to wash face more than twice as it can make your face natural oil dry out, and the result, face will produce more oil and cause more acne.
i. Don't pop or squeeze your pimples since it can lead acne to scarring and irritation.
j. Don't use astringents, except if you really have very oily skin.