Archive for the ‘What Is Acne’ Category:
Fight Stress, Fight Acne!
Once we’ve entered the vicious circle of stress, only a great inner power and our self consciousness would be able to save us. Pessimistic or not, this is the truth… Once we let stress govern our life, it will not be so easy to save ourselves and to become our own masters again.
Of course, [...]
The Stress Connection
As we have already showed, not surprisingly, stress has a starring role in the ongoing acne drama. “Ninety percent of my patients complain about what stress does to their skin. It has a huge impact, and it’s becoming a bigger problem every day,” says Katie Rodan, MD, a clinical professor of dermatology at Stanford [...]
Sun Therapy. Sun and Acne
As we have already said, while it is true that small amounts of sun exposure may initially improve acne, you should not be fooled; unfortunately, the benefit is temporary and thus sun baths become inefficient because of the sunlight’s long-term side effects. Sun and acne may be friends, you know!
Consistent sun baths will dry your [...]
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Sleep and Acne
Surprisingly or not, sleep represents the simplest and one of the most efficient ways of helping your skin. Women from all over the world, as well as scientists, have agreed that a good night’s sleep, that is at least eight hours of sleep, can do wonder for our acne and for our whole body’s health.
It [...]
Comedones on the Job. Acne and Work
Since we spend a good, if not the main, part of our time at work, the office becomes kind of a second home for us, while some of our work colleagues become kind of a second family.
On the other hand, this environment becomes as well the second place to which’s conditions our skin must accommodate. [...]
Stress and Acne. Coping with Acne
Stress and acne! But what is in fact the relation between stress and acne?
In a previous post we have called stress one of acne’s main causes. Well, you should not understand these words in a wrong way.
Stress itself is an abstract notion. Stress is like air; “you don’t see air, but you know that it [...]
Physical Exercises and Acne
Although many of us may think that physical exercises and the sweat they bring along cause the apparition or acne or its becoming more severe, this is totally wrong. Our workout is not causing our acne breakouts and it is in fact quite wrong to believe such thing.
The normal, moderate physical exercise is in fact [...]
Shaving and Acne - Myth and Reality
“Shaving bumps”. These are the words with which we usually call those spots that appear after shaving and that seem to be acne spots. The question that arises, however, is obviously whether this has anything to do with acne.
According to the studies, it appears that this skin issue is a tricky one, but fortunately it [...]
Ages…, Stages… Shaving and Acne
We haven’t reached this topic for some time now, but there are still lots of myths to discover and discuss about when talking about acne.
One of these myths is represented also by the so called “shaving bumps”, or the acne spots that appears after shaving. So, guys, this article will be interesting and useful especially [...]
Vitamins, Vitamins, Vitamins!
We have also got used to our parents’ trying to convince us to eat our veggies. Even if you’ve already become grown ups, our grandmas or our mothers are still trying to make us eating the vegetables from our soup!
Like veggies or not, we should at least admit that our parents want us to be [...]