Oily and Sensitive Skins Are Prone to Acne

As you’ve just read the more oil your skin naturally produces, the more prone to acne the skin is. Everyone could recognize an oily skin by the fact it is shiny and coarse in its texture. Oily-skinned persons might have recurring blackheads and also enlarged pores, their skin may show flakiness around their noses as well. Obviously the first characteristic for this kind of skin is its excessive sebum (oil), which is the main factor in the production of acne.
On the other hand there are the sensitive skins that are also more then prone to acne. Because of the fact that the skin is very sensitive it gets affected by every little change from your body’s chemistry, as well as by every other outer influence, such as cosmetics, the food you eat, the sun light you’ve exposed yourself at. The main characteristic of this type of sensitive skin is the fact that it has broken capillaries and vessels beneath its surfaces.
If you notice that your skin has the main characteristics of the oily skins or of the sensitive skins, you should start take extra care of both the external and the internal elements that could affect the inflammation of your skin and the apparition or evolution of acne. A normal, balanced diet, the care in choosing cosmetics, a less stressful life and regular physical exercises would all keep your body fit and powerful enough to be able to fight acne.
If you suffer from oily skin, you should remember that your oily skin needs a strict cleansing regimen especially in the summer.
However, not matter what type of skin you have, you should protect not only it, but your entire body against the noxious factors that could trigger many other severe disorders, not only acne.

Types of Skin: Normal, Dry and Oily Skin

Your skin can be divided into three types: the dry skin, the normal skin and the oily skin. As you may imagine only the normal skin is the healthy one, as it is not being affected by special skin disorders such as acne or others.
On the other hand you must know that apart from these three major types of skin there exist also the mixed types, which borrow some characteristics from all the major kinds. The mixed skin types are also characterized by some special conditions, as they combine aging skins, mature skins, sensitive skins, acne-prone skins and other types of special problematic skins.
However, knowing these things theoretically doesn’t help you too much. You should only be interested in finding out exactly what kind of skin you have and then to use only cosmetics for your skin type. If you are an acne sufferer, you surely have an acne-prone type skin, which is usually also oily and has pimples and blackheads as well. As we’ve already discussed, you mustn’t neglect your skin disorder, so you should really care for these small pimples and blackheads. If not treated, acne could advance to a worsened stage and your skin could get even deep scars!

Summing up from all the ideas posted till know acne sufferers should really care about the cosmetics they use, the food they consume, the hygiene they have and others. You may notice that all these factors are in fact elements that maintain first of all the quality and health of your health. If the skin is healthy inside, it will itself be able to fight with stronger forces against acne. If not helped, the skin will be just a weak territory in front of the infectious annoying enemy called “ACNE”.
So, although acne is something that every man or woman experience sometime in their lives, there are persons that are predisposed to acne and who are responsible to fight although they are not adolescents anymore. The face, the back and the chest are the places when acne is most likely to appear.
Next you’ll find out a little more about oily and sensitive skin and the risk for these types of skin regarding the apparition of acne.

Acne Myth No. 6 - Part IV

Stay Away from Skin Products that Are “Oil Free”, as well as from Those Containing Lanolin!
Although this is not some sort of battle against the producers of cosmetics, but against acne, you should know that these fellows are somehow tricky. As the products containing oil have been recently discovered as being harmful for your skin, the nowadays cosmetics’ labels proclaim them as “oil free” products. So, if you have read only the previous post you’ll buy these recent “non-harmful” products, priding yourself of being an intelligent customer. But, it is very possible for you to still not get rid of acne!
Why’s that? – you will rightfully ask yourself.
The problem is that the cosmetics producers have been driven by good intentions, but they unfortunately fell out of the frying-pan into the fire. When the recent researches have showed that the oil from the cosmetic products is harmful for acne sufferers, the producers have not eliminated the oil from their products; they have substituted it with some synthetic chemicals. As you may have already guessed these synthetic elements that have substituted the oil from cosmetics are much more harmful than the excess sebum found on the skin clogging the pores. So, although that they are “oil free” is practically true for the new cosmetic products, this hasn’t made them better for your skin; on the contrary their synthetic chemical elements are even more harmful if you suffer from acne.

So, what should you do, if even the “oil free”-labeled products are in fact harmful? Return to the oily cosmetics? Well, that would be it! But, you should first know how to make the difference between good and bad oils.
As you have read, there are two types of oils used in the cosmetic industry: the good ones and the bad ones. The good ones are called “non-penetrating” oils; these are the mineral oil, the sunflower oil and others and they are called “non-penetrating” because they don’t penetrate your skin, being this way less harmful for it than the oils that are strong penetrators causing comedones.
But be careful in choosing your cosmetics! Try not to confound the “non-penetrating” oils to natural oils. Remember the mineral and the sunflower oils as the most used good oils. They are natural elements, and they are good oils too.
On the other hand, there are also other natural oils, which are on the contrary very harmful for your skin. This is the case of Lanolin, which is a bad oily substance and which is unfortunately used very often in the cosmetics industry. Lanolin can be found in many lotions, cremes and sunscreens and has been discovered to trigger acne.
Lanolin is a fatty acid that is produced from the sheep’s wool. It has been thought that Lanolin is promoting smooth skin, but the researches have showed that its skin-penetrating effect makes it a direct cause for acne.
In addition to Lanolin, the ones who suffer from acne should be careful not to use products containing Isopropyl Myristate, which is very aggressively penetrating the skin, although it had been claimed to be an element that makes the skin smoother. It is now said that this element could be in fact used as a rust-remover.
In the end, you must also find out that the cosmetic dyes have proved to worsen the acne condition because of their comedogenous nature and that the stronger the cosmetics’ fragrances are the worse they you’ll affect your skin disorder.

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