Acne and Facial Sweating – Is There a Link Between the Two?

If you’ve been suffering for any length of time with facial acne you know how hard it can be to pinpoint the primary culprit. Is it your diet? Do you have some strange allergy to something? Is your skin too dry or too oily? Are you overwashing your face, underwashing your face or maybe it’s the soap itself that’s causing your breakouts?

It’s easy to get lost in all the potential triggers for facial acne. That said, you can cut down on some specific ones. In this article, I’m going to show you how facial sweating not only causes acne but also how it can be controlled to diminish acne.

Let me explain…

See, there is in fact a link between facial sweating and facial acne. That said, it’s not a 100% negative association. Facial sweating can actually have a beneficial effect to your skin – depending on its frequency and consistency (what’s in the sweat).

Let’s start out with the bad news first. If you’re not eating right and your hygiene is off-kilter, facial sweating will in fact exacerbate your acne. If you’re eating oily foods or lots of processed sugars, these toxins will be excreted in your sweat. The more toxins in your sweat, the more residue left on your skin and in your pores.

Bacteria feeds off of sebum (the oil in your skin), so if you’re putting a lot of garbage into your body, you’re going to have a whole bacteria party in your pores.

On the other hand, if you’re drinking a lot of water and taking in a ton of fiber, toxins will be more efficiently excreted through your digestive tract, leaving you with cleaner, less toxic sweat.

Now let’s discuss some good news. Sweat can actually help your skin if you’re eating the right stuff and washing your face appropriately.

Sweat will help flush away dead skin cells and push dirt and residue out from your pores – If as I said, your diet is filled with tons of water, fiber, low in processed sugar, devoid of any kind of soda and contains healthy fats found in avocados, almonds and omega-3 fish oils.

What Facial Sweating Means to You

Just like your car needs clean oil to run efficiently, you’re skin requires cleaner sweat to stay healthy. The sweat itself isn’t the culprit of your acne, it’s the food and drink that you’re putting into your body. Keep that in mind the next time you go out to lunch on a hot Summer Day.

Decreasing Facial Sweat – If you’re looking to decrease your facial sweating in general I recommend you try Witch Hazel pads. Witch Hazel is a natural astringent that will gently dry your skin, minimizing oil and keeping pores clean for hours on end.

If you suspect your sweating is a main contributor of your acne and you’re unable to compromise your current diet, Witch Hazel is a fast, simple solution that will start giving you cleaner skin in about 3 days.

Author Bio:

Jason Ellis is an up and coming web author who has been showing readers for years how to apply natural skincare solutions. His strongest expertise deals with controlling a condition known hyperhidrosis(chronic excessive sweating). For years, Jason has researched proven ways to tame excessive facial sweat, overcome palmoplantar hyperhidrosis and also treat underarm hyperhidrosis.

The Link Between Smoking and Acne – Does Smoking Cause Acne?

Approximately 1 out of every 5 people are cigarette smokers, and smoking claims the lives of over 3 million people each year. But there’s no need to repeat statistics that we’ve all heard before; we all know that smoking is bad for you. But how bad is it for your skin? Does smoking cause acne?

In this article we’ll examine a possible connection between cigarette smoking and acne, and what we find out just may surprise you!

In 2006 the Journal of Investigative Dermatology published the results of a massive 20 year study of over 27,000 participants which was aimed at determining whether or not there was a connection between smoking and the prevalence of acne.

The results? There is a connection, but…it’s not what you might think!

The study actually found that severe acne vulgaris was less common among smokers than among non-smokers. Additionally, the more a person smokes, the less likely they were to have severe acne.

The Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology found similar results in a smaller study published in 2007, with the exception that they were only able to note a statistical difference for females who smoked, and none for males.

Both of these more recent studies, however, have opposite findings of some older studies, such as one published in 2001 by the British Journal of Dermatology which found that smokers tended to have more acne than non-smokers. There have also been studies which found no correlation either way.

At this point is seems that all science has to say about the link between smoking and acne is: There may be a link, but we’re not completely sure yet.

Regardless of whether smoking causes or even helps acne, it certainly does play a role in the development of other adverse skin conditions.

Most notably is skin cancer, but smoking also drastically increases the development of wrinkles and makes your skin look far older than it is.

Smoking increases instances of inflammatory reactions by the skin, which can make existing acne lesions more red and prominent. Also, smoking reduces the skin’s ability to heal, which will cause acne blemishes to remain on the skin for longer than they would otherwise.

One thing that many smokers will claim is that smoking helps to reduce stress. Whether or not this is actually true or not is a topic of debate, but many smokers will swear that it lowers their stress levels.

Since stress is a known acne trigger for some people, this may be noteworthy. It may be possible to achieve the stress reduction of cigarettes without any of the harmful side effects through the use of water-based electronic cigarettes, which actually produce no smoke but still reproduce the feeling of smoking a cigarette.

In conclusion, it’s impossible to say definitively whether or not there is a link between smoking and acne, however the scientific research on the subject so far seems to suggest that there is.

Regardless of whether or not smoking causes acne, it is certainly bad for your skin and your overall health, so it’s certainly better to not smoke than to smoke.