Summer Time Sweat Can Bring on the Breakouts!
It almost never fails for me. If I wear a somewhat tight and confining piece of clothing on my upper half, and I happen to also sweat profusely while I’m wearing it, I almost always will break out in that area. Case in point is the fact that we used our infrared sauna last night, and I stayed in a bit too long, which means I ended up drenching myself in sweat, especially on my upper extremity.
I also happened to be wearing a tight tank top which clung to my skin and was made of a thicker material. This all adds up to disaster, especially if you are prone to breaking out on your back and your chest, which I happen to be. The problem is, you are essentially trapping your skin with excess heat as well as sweat and dirt-debris that gets caught in there, and this is being trapped in your pores, clogging them and causing a reaction that increases the oil production in those areas and brings on more irritation.
Because I wore the tank top, which covered the top part of my chest (this was not one of those lower cut, lighter material ones), I ended up breaking out allover my chest in bumps as well as some that came to grow fairly big and ended up breaking and causing redness and a raw looking pustule.
I’d suggest that if you’re out in the blazing heat and humidity this summer, say if you are going to an amusement park on a 90 degree day or something of the like, make sure you wear a very light, almost flimsy cotton, this way the material can breathe and let your skin instantly evaporate off of the skin and let it breathe, so all that dirt and other irritants don’t get trapped and cause you body acne.
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