Acne Prevention Tips
Acne breakouts commonly occur due to hormonal fluctuations, exposure to sunlight, weak immune system and lack of essential nutrients in your diet. Though acne is most common disorder, it can be treated and eliminated completely by focusing a little attention towards what cause acne and avoiding those causes.
There are numerous
causes of acne, you should find out what causes in your case. Lets discuss each causes and ways to its prevention.
Avoid Junk Foods:
Junk foods contain no essential nutrients required for healthy skin. Junk foods interrupts in digestive system and cause toxicity in the blood that your body discharges through your skin. These toxins accumulate within hair follicles and stimulate sebaceous glands to produce excessive sebum. Therefore, avoid junk foods as they contain high levels of saturated fats, salts and sugar excess of which cause acne.
Avoid Direct Exposure to Sunlight:
Sunlight contains ultraviolet rays of sun that damage your hair follicles. Hair follicles are made up of delicate epithelial cells. Epithelial cells are very vulnerable to be affected by internal and external stimuli. Direct exposure of sun not only destroy hair follicles but also stimulate sebaceous glands. That is why, excessive oil is produce when you are exposed to sun. Do not forget to wear sunscreen before going outside.
Weak Immune System:
You immune system protects you from harmful agents entering into your body or affecting externally. To achieve the goal, your immune system produces certain antibodies. These antibodies are defensive against the particular agent for which it was produced by your immune system. A weak immune system can not recognize what is harmful and what is useful for your body. Sometimes even foods substances can trigger your immune system. Therefore, make your immune system healthy and strong to reduce the risk of bad immune response. So you might be thinking how bad immune response correlates with acne breakouts? Actually, your hair follicles are very susceptible to bad immune response and stimulated immediately. Therefore, a chain of excessive sebum and accumulation within hair follicles begins, that ends in whiteheads, blackheads, pimples, papules and pustules.
Avoid Harsh Cosmetics and Soaps:
Hiding your reddish pimples with cosmetics is not a satisfactory and long lasting solution. Most people carelessly use harsh and oily cosmetics without knowing their skin type. If you have oily skin and use harsh cosmetics containing oils, you will certainly have severe acne breakouts. Therefore, avoid harsh cosmetics that cause irritation and damage to your hair follicles.
Conclusion:
There is no magic treatment or magical trick to eliminate acne. Avoiding the possible causes, eating healthy foods (fruits, vegetables), using herbal skin care tonics etc accelerate the healing process and leads to prevention of acne breakouts.
