As a teenager, you should find out whether your skin is the oily, dry or a combination of oily and dry type, so that you will know what method of control measure to use. Acne control measures and medications for different skin types are available online, but applying the wrong care can bring about cystic or severe acne.
Often teenage acne finds its way back to your skin later in adulthood. Why this happens has not been pinpointed, but it is obvious that adult acne results from teenage acne. The other type of adult acne is work environment induced. For example, acne or skin disorders resulting form exposure to Chlorinated industrial chemicals.
You should, therefore, make effort as a teenager to nip acne in the bud by starting basic bcontrol measures early. This will stop your acne, when it appears, from affecting too many areas on your body. Acne and its degree depend largely on the genetics of an individual teenager. Some people will have just wee acne while others will have severe acne.
The following measures if followed religiously will act as good control against wide spread acne:
- Do not break your pimples, your fingers are not always clean and could introduce germs into your pimples to cause you cystic acne.
- Wash your hands and face thrice a day. Washing your face does not mean scrubbing; do the washing gently with the palm of your hand.
- Stay away from frying environment. Most people have the erroneous belief that eating fried food cause pimples and acne, but what is right is that being in a frying environment exposes your skin to airborne frying grease which when settled on your kin can clog your pores and cause acne.
- Do not use oil based cosmetics, they can also clog your pores. Girls, especially, should avoid such cosmetics. They should also wash their faces before bed every night.
All said, the bottom line is to start the above habits early to minimize your acne, since almost every teenager will suffer some degree of acne before adulthood. And when eventually your acne appears, look for a proven medication that works. Information is available online.
