subject: Severe Acne Treatment Tips [print this page] Here are some severe acne treatment tips that you can keep in mind while treating a bad acne condition. Unlike other acne, this needs extra care and also close observation on your habits that you do not notice that will aggravate your acne and make it worse instead of helping it to cure.
The first severe acne treatment tip is to tune up your awareness of your face. This means by always be on-guard and not allowing things to touch your face. Sometimes, you may not notice but your hands will touch your face without you realizing it. Besides that, if you have long hair and occasionally brushes your face, then tie it up, use a hairband or use anything you want to keep your face free from it. The purpose is not to let possible bacteria to get transferred to your already damage skin. It needs minimal contact with things that can expose it to more bacteria and also space to heal without interruption.
Secondly, lower your consumption of coffee, avoid smoking and eat more fruits and vegetables. Ensure that you drink more water than usual. This will help your body to excrete toxins effectively. Study have shown that, constipation can worsen the acne condition due to the extra toxins that are accumulated in the body.
Use benzoyl peroxide or salicylic acid that has drying effect on your acne after you wash your face and leave it. It dries up the acne faster and works like a deep cleanser. Though these products has drying effect, you can use light moisturizer to replenish its suppleness.
Gentle cleansers are a must for severe acne treatment. Don't think that using strong, foamy and drying cleansers are good cleansers. It is not the case because it removes the natural oil from your skin and makes your skin dry and flaky. When your face is dry, your skin will automatically activate its oil glands to produce oil to protect its surface thus making your skin oily. This will only bring on more problems for you as you will need to stabilize your oil glands and treat your acne at the same time.
Sleep at the right time so that your skin will be more effective in repairing itself. Often, sleeping late will make your skin oily. Also, sleeping early will reduce problems like dark eye circles, wrinkles and it maximize the effects of treatment products on your skin. Night time is the best time as compared to day time because your skin is not expose to harmful sun light which makes your skin sensitive and is more prone to redness and allergies.
Severe acne treatment will need extra caution and care because its condition is worse and its damage is more than other acne. If care is not given, severe acne can cause bigger and deeper scars which will take longer time to cure.
