Spotless skin? I mean simple, easy skin care?

I'm due to get married in December. A bit nervous as you may have guessed :). Could you tell me how can I maintain my skin to avoid any pimples etc and keep it spotless?





Thanks in advance to all answers
Spotless skin? I mean simple, easy skin care?
Hi!





Your secret to spotless skin is a good diet, exercise and to remain hydrated. You may go for natural facials once or twice a week. To avoid pimples, avoid foods that are too greasy and fattening (yes, that includes chocolates as well). Have a diet enriched mainly with fruits, vegetables and grains. You can have red and white meats once-twice in a week. If you can, go ahead for detox! It works. A three-day detox plan on fluids with grape juices and soups. Since this flushes out all the toxins from your body, you will not only look vibrant and pink with vigor but you'd also get rid of the toxins from your body that would make you look more toned (body-wise). Make sure you detox only once a month. I hope the information helps! Wishing you all the best and hearty congratulations for your wedding! May God bless you both!





~* Mrs. Bakur (Certified Health Specialist)*~
Spotless skin? I mean simple, easy skin care?
Mary Kay for men works well
Reply:use mary kay mask, cleanser and toner ...IT HELPS I SWEAR !!!! and drink lots of water (it helps ur skin and ur body and make you have this certin glow to your skin)
Reply:boil some water and then put a towel over your head and sit over it for about ten minutes. then wash your face put some toner on and some moisturizer.


do this every night before you go to bed. also wash your face every morning when you get up.. i like the biore pore unclogging face wash it works really fell!


it works for me so i hope it works for you!!!





: )bae
Reply:I feel your pain and I can help you. But you have to follow this to a T.


I had terrible acne. Pimples on top of pimples on top of pimples for years. I tried every over the counter product and I tried half of the ones that doctors precribed and none of them did anything but make my skin super dry. The pimples still came through.





After years of dealing with it I finally developed a way to battle this on my own.


Here is the deal.





Acne is not due to any 1 certain thing. Its a condition of multiple things going wrong at the same time. Below I will describe all of these things and how they make your acne flare up. But it is important to remember that you need to correct as many of them as possible. If you correct all of them exept 2 your will still have bouts with acne. You have to correct all of them... and then keep them corrected.








*Stress, Fretting, and Selfconsciousness


This can be one of the worst things to change. Mainly for the fact that there is a cycle here. You get acne and you stress and feel subconscious.


Stress is not just a psychological thing. Its physiological too.


When a dog chases you, your body has a chemical rush.. the flight or flight phenomenon. Your body releases a RUSH of chemicals in order for you to manage the situation and survive.


Stress is "chemically" very much the same as the adrenaline rush that you feel. A dog chasing you causes you stress... so you get that Rush of chemicals. However, when you stress about things such as homework, your car insurance, and your acne... there isn't really an immediate need for the chemicals. Rather than RUSHING out... the chemicals leak out... they seep out.


This seeping consists of a LOT of chemicals, and these chemicals in turn trigger a lot of other chemicals.


It may not sound like a big deal, but if your body is constantly locked in a mode of mild aggitation it can cause serious problems. Not just acne, but after prolonged periods you may develop heart problems, increased risk of cancer and stroke.


To come full circle... the slow steady aggitation of stress will cause an excess of body chemicals that normally shouldn't be there. This will lead to increased Acne.





*Diet


I could go on about diet forever. However, I think this is a quite obvious cause of Acne so I'll keep it short. If you eat like a disgusting human being, you are going to look like a disgusting human being. Its as simple as that.


You really need to do your best to elimanate fats, soda, candy, sugar, potatoe chips, white bread, cheese, ice cream, chocolate, salt, and fast food from your diet. Not only do you need to eliminate these things, you need to replace them with LOADS of water, veggies, fruits, nuts, whole grain bread, whole wheat bread.


One other thing you might not realize is that anything that is easy to cook is terrible for you. You need to try to avoid canned foods, boxed foods, and freezer foods. If its fast and easy its deadly and it will flare your acne.





*Clenliness


Clenliness is pretty obvious too. And I don't doubt that you are a clean person. When I talk about clenliness what I am referring to is the little things that you might not realize.


For instance... you go to school. You touch the railing on the way up the stairs. You touch the doorknob to the classroom. You touch your desk and your pencil that has never been cleaned in its lifetime. Your hand sweats. You reach up to wipe the hair out of your face or scratch your nose and what have you done?


You've just scratched, pressed, wiped and streaked about 50 varieties of bacteria into the pores of your face. Who would love nothing more than to find a warm greasy nutrient filled little hole to make their babies in.


I know you are a clean person.. but you need to become aware of these sorts of mishaps.


Carry a travel bottle of hand sanitizer with you in your bookbag, in your car and at home on your desk. Whenever you touch a doorknob, your keyboard, your steering wheel, or whatever, just make a tiny mental note that your hands are dirty. As soon as you have time, give those babies an alcohol bath and suffer those little germies.


Warning... don't go overboard and go germ crazy. You can't kill them all :)





*Drinking/Drugs Unhealthy behavior


I like to have some beer and wine. But the idea here is moderation. If you have 2-3 beers you aren't going to be breaking out because of it. However if you have 2-3 beers every night for 3 nights in a row.. you might start to notice a difference in your complexion.


Have fun... enjoy yourself... but learn to moderate beer/marijuana/etc.


Remember that alcohol is a poison. If your body is trying to clean your system of poisons... it has that much less manpower to fight the bacteria growing in your pores.





*Colds or other illness


When you get a cold, or you have the stomach flu, your body goes into damage mode. It'll likely put the small infections such as your acne on hold in order to fight the larger infections.... such as the bacteria in your stomach that are trying to kill you.


This is also why some people get fever blisters when they get sick. Normally the body is keeping the virus at bay... but when they get sick the immune system gets a bit overloaded and has to prioritize.


Unfortunately, Acne is one of the least priorities on the list.


If you get sick... you are likely to have an outbreak.





*Sunlight


Sunlight is full of UV rays... UV rays are bad for your skin if you get too many right? Well for that very same reason they are VERY deadly to microorganisms.


UV rays scramble the germs DNA and they cease to function and die.


What I'm trying to stress here is that Emo kids who lock themselves in the basement and sit in front of the computer don't have this added advantage. Don't go nuke yourself in a tanning bed, but try to get outside and take a little jog... or just hang out in the back yard for a little bit.


Get out and get a little bit of sun. I swear it helps!





*Exercise and Sweating


Exercise activates all sorts of your body's good chemical processes. It increases the blood flow which will increase the rate at which immune cells, nutrients and antibodies reach the tiny capillaries of your face.


In addition to this you sweat. Sweat comes out of your pores... right!? Its a good deal.


I noticed that if I would have a good workout at the gym and then sit in the steam room for 20 minutes until I was dripping sweat my acne decreased dramatically in the following days.





*Irritation


By irritation I mainly mean harsh chemicals and harsh scrubbing. Your skin doesn't like to be plastered with chemical compounds and then grated to death with an abrasive pad. Also, harsh alcohol products such as Clearasil are terrible. They do little to help.


If you want to clean your face go to Wal-mart and get a 2 dollar bottle of Equate daily face wash. When you go to bed and when you get up... or during the day when you realize that you are extra greasy just do a "light" wash of your face to get rid of the excess grease and dirt. The soap is a polar molecule and it binds to tiny dirt particles. When you rinse the dirt goes with the soap. Don't scrub... just let the bubbles and water do its work. Then dab with a "clean" towel.


Used towels and wash rags have 400 times more bacteria than a keyboard and 600 times more than your toilet seat.





*Thinking about the Acne


I really have nothing to back this one up other than I KNOW with my heart and soul that its true.


If you have acne and you think think think think think think think think about it... it'll get confident and want to take over your whole face. I don't know why this is... i think its kinda like the stress thing. If you have a pimple and you think about it. Its bound to get worse.





*Age and Hormones


I put this one last because its the only one of these things that is out of our control.


There are only a few times in a persons life when we have HUGE amounts of hormones and chemicals racing through us.


Birth to 3 years old.


Adolescence to about 23 years old.


Pregnancy


Menopause.


During these times you will see a marked increase in acne and there is little you can do about it but wait.





I know I have been long winded... but this took me 15 years to fomulate. It'll work... I swear by it.


The only problem is trying to do all of these things at once and keep it going. Many times I would do these things and my face would clear up and I would be like "yey!" and I would start to slack off. Every time it would come back with a vengance.





Follow these rules as much as you can and keep them going. Don't stop!





There are two more things I'd like to say.





Acne has a lag to it. So say you go out friday and Saturday and drink and party and eat fried chicken and lose all sorts of sleep.


Sunday you might be as clear as a bell... but on Tuesday your face will look like someone set fire to it and put it out with an ice pick. This is one of the reasons its hard to detect exactly what causes your acne.... because it comes 3 days after the cause.





Invest in a pack of needles. Rather than squeeze and press and ravage your pimples and make them explode out... nick the top layer of skin that is holding the pus in and then apply pressure. You'll cause much less damage this way and you can even get to those really deep pimples that won't come to the surface for another couple of days.





I hope this helps. I'm sorry Its so long winded.


I am rooting for you! I have been there!
Reply:I agree with the ladies who have said good exercise, diet and drinking lots of water....But I also use the Clinique 3 step range along with a facial scrub. Go to a clinique counter at a department store and they will give you a free consulatation and help you if you have trouble areas and stuff.....I dont work for them by the way, even though it sounds like i do, ive always found them very helpful and their products are reasonably priced too and they give you lots of freebies!!! ;)