Rica’s Story To Acne-Free Skin In LESS Than A Week!

“I do not have issue with some pimples and acne that sprouts on my face until recently that it gets more red and irritated. I had tried reading more articles on how I can reduce the appearance of acne on my face but it tends to get more stubborn,” Rica, a fifteen years old high school students confessed to her auntie. As being a foster mother of her, Joy wants to keep the responsibility to inform the teen some ways to address Rica’s problem, even advising her of changing her routines into something that would fit and healthy for a teen like her.

“She’s pretty kid when I got her into my care. Her beautiful skin is one of the traits that I notice at her when we are living together in one roof because as time and years passed by, it gets more oily and shiny. When she’s out, I make sure she had a ready clean handkerchief or tissue on the bag so she can pull it out when needed but these never helps. She soon complained about the acne on her face,” Joy narrates to us.

With raging and changing hormones, teenage life is so fun and exciting stage in anyone’s life but with it, comes a frustration that our skin are so prone to acne and other clogged pores. We heard lots of skin care routines and medications that consume times, however, giving less satisfactory results. When acne or pimple breakouts happened so is our moods affected. If we don’t address this, we must prepare to head our way to dermatologist clinic for which we known to be costing us more!

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Cetaphil or a gentle and mild soap brings a lot of help. Rinsing your face thrice daily removes those excreted oils sitting on the layer of your skin. Be careful in cleansing your skin, teens as it can also cause flaking or dryness. Use skin moisturizer that has zero oil content to keep the skin properly hydrated. One can also get help from products that contains alcohol at night time to clear those clogged pores and get rid of bacteria and oils that triggers the appearing of acne on skin. But as we mention earlier, using alcohol content cleanser to exfoliate should not be done more often to avoid skin damage. If you experience irritations, redness, and itchiness, then discontinue using it.

“Soon as I know about Cetaphil, I had checked it out online and made my purchase so I can try. Yeah, it left a fresh clean feeling on the skin after washing my face with Cetaphil. The acne on my face was starting to dry and lessen the redness. I recommend using it to teenage since it super mild on skin,” Rica’s testimony has greatly convince us that she suits using mild products. Rica also gets an opportunity to talk and ask suggestions from our skin experts regarding her skin problems. Let us check below a summarized list on how she got acne-free skin in less than a week!

Skincare and Beauty Products For Healthy Clearer Skin

Exfoliating Skin Brush

Get the gentle micro brittle brush match for your favorite cleansing soap to deeply unclog pores and get remove of those dirt deposits. There are handsome selections for this product online. We recommend you to use it because it cleanse better than you do without skin exfoliating brush.

Lactic Acid Exfoliating soap

The one I had tried using and trusted to give to teens like you are those in liquid forms for fast absorption to skin. Lactic acid soap can also have in beauty bar form. This is economical purchase though you get through some scrubbing off on your skin, like on face and neck that you might tend to do so much. Have those better in gentle circular motion.

Use Skin Serum

If you are looking to give your skin a better defense against radicals, applying serum is the best way to do it. Skin serum is the newest skin care discovery that had gain more popularity today because of its effective result. It is more concentrated than a skin lotion so you will only need small amount of serum liquid mixed on your cream to give boost to the elasticity of your skin. You can also directly apply it unto the skin after washing your face. Note that it can also use to other parts of your body such as thighs and legs.

Facial Mask

Have you heard about the bentonite or clay mask? Clay is known material used to get rid of hydrogen which is usually on the skin which causes clogging on pores. The clay facial mask more ideal for oily skin type and improves the circulation of the blood to make your skin healthy and clear. It helps pulling out toxins and radicals that are not easily remove with simple washing. This will combat to reduce the population of bacteria such as microflora, the reason why you have acne while not skipping the need to maximize the elasticity of your skin to maintain its youthfulness.

Other Things You Can Do

Yoga

It is high time that you will grab those yoga book and video because it is really helpful to have a clearer acne-free skin. A more aware teen will have a healthy younger looking body and acne-free skin with the help of yoga. You see, what is on the inside will reflect on your skin texture and teenage stage is really a stressful years. Stress, if not properly address or balance can be unhealthy and causes illness on our digestive system. With proper educational material such as books/videos and trainer you are not only targeting to have acne-free skin in less than a week but a body that is healthy and ready to face any challenges in school.

Foods

Increase your dietary consumption on leafy goods and vegetables. These are the sweepers inside your tummy that aids in pushing down toxins out of your body. Carrots, tomatoes, brown rice, and apricot are also good for the skin. Minimize eating peanuts if you have oily skin. Most teenagers who have acne problem also has oily skin, so as to say, you got that noted.

More Water

Drinking more water will definitely will not work to magically removes acne in less than a week but indeed, it will assist the skin cells in cleansing those built-up waste inside the body. This advice will not directly solve the oily skin that causes acne. Acne problems must be treated in a way that we reduce the oil production of the glands, but for a clear skin one must need to keep hydrated. Drinking 8 or more glasses of waters surely benefits the skin.

Clean Pillows

Regularly replace your pillowcase before going to lay on it at night. You can’t stay in an upfront face position all the time you are asleep and your face will eventually in contact with the pillow which you do not know, had some bacteria and dust. It also helps when you keep a habit of letting the pillow out in the sun at daytime to kill those microbes.

Check Your Cosmetics Tools

In America, almost 90 percent of teen populations are using makeup on daily wear. The sponge and brushes are favorite places that which harbors dirt and bacteria. Dermatologist and skin experts had sent out advisory reports that these cosmetics supplies is one of the causes of acne, if you do not keep it clean. The proper way to clean these beauty tools is to soak and rinse it with lukewarm water and patting it out to dry. You can also air dry it outside on safe areas at home.

Minimize Using Mobiles

Did you know that your mobile phone is ten times more dirty than the toilet bowl? If you aren’t aware of that then it is about time to give this a thought. You keep your phone handly all the time; when your hands are clean and even when it is not. This makes your mobile catch basin of bacterias and fungi. Wipe those dirt and bacteria your naked eyes don’t see with some disinfecting wipes and sanitizer.

Follow up Stories

Our team gets in touch with Rica Joy after the second week of close monitoring with the help of her auntie, Joy to hear more updates after giving her some advice. Here is the story below!

“After I had the list on what to do and some products I got, I carefully follow the instructions given to me by the skin expert team. Every day I make sure that I keep my face clean and moisturize. The things around me such as my pillows and beddings are well-clean,” Rica narrated.

Rica story is one of those teen whom we happened to meet on daily basis. Some of them are ashamed to talk to elders but an acne problem could affect their performance in school and the way they interact with their fellow classmates and friends. At one time in an interview she states that she was bullied with a few students because of her acne and but instead of sulking down to depress, she got a trusted alliance of her auntie whom help her seek for solutions. The total upheaval of things occur when she start doing things on her list making way to the new change on her skin texture.

“I am not used to being so meticulous on the product I used for my face or skin. Nether had I become so over-clean that so entails washing my face more often but Auntie Joy was persistent in reminding me always. Sometimes my ears are already tired hearing it, but I am grateful she did,” Rica told us.

On asking Rica of which among the product we recommend her to use she loves the most, her replied surprises us.

“I love the facial serum. It is the best! It tightened my skin. I apply small amount on my face after wash and also put drop of serum on my favorite lotion. It works well especially on dark pigmented skin areas on my body. I used to have a scar trace on my knee, now it lightens,” she said. “Really, I am thankful with these products and advice I got. I no longer have the ugly acne on my face.”

Acne Treatment And Self-Esteem Advice

Everyone passes a puberty stage. A time when our body begins to create more androgens than it was when we are still a kids. The diligent works of the oil gland will results to the popping of acne somewhere on our face if luckily not on the whole area of the face. Most of the teens during this stage will suffer from skin dryness or acne. The bacteria on the skin will multiply causing reddish pink acne, blackheads, and the like skin problems. Teenage life is a years where the teen is building her/his self-esteem and identity. The changes of the body hormones as well as the stress from challenging lifestyle of today’s generation may cause some health problems to the teen if we could not find our balance or hold control.

Dr. Wong recommended the best approach if your teen is facing this problem:

1.    Wash thoroughly the face with mild cleanser. Do often when sweating and do not pick the acnes as this will cause scars or inflammation.

2.    Apply benzoyl peroxide on area affected with cotton to kill the bacteria. You can also use toner or exfoliates supplies to dry up the acne areas.

3.    Use mild product for moisturizer. This won’t cause irritation and redness.

4.    Clean anything that could touch your skin or face; hands, pillows, bed sheets.

5.    Seek program advice on how you can combat the negative feeling that comes with the low self-esteem to encourage the teen.

The results of treatments and some beauty skin care products may not be very visible on few applications but do not disheartened. Sticking on the routine, you will eventually discover that you are having a progress. There may be habits you be needed to give up for a clean, healthy and acne-free skin but results are rewarding. Keep it and continue working on to improve your complexion and skin texture. For some groups, a birth control or contraceptive pills can lower down or block androgen hormones that cause you acne so try to seek the advice from the OB-gyne the medication that best suits you. Lastly, do not give in to the negative feeling. Lack of confidence due to your acne can affect how you lead your life.