Not only do people want to feel good all the time, they want to look good all the time. And sometimes looking good is far more important then feeling good. The obsession over perfect skin is the people need to look great, almost perfect. Reaching the scale of perfect nowadays requires surgical treatment that can be dangerous if not handled properly.

Normally, when people have unwanted healthy issues with the skin, they prefer to have good skin instead of perfect. They will do anything to solve the healthy skin problems which can further endanger health. These procedures are considered easy and not very likely to be cosmetically focused.

Now, focusing on the real reason why society is obsessed with perfect skin is the look. Cosmetic skin treatment is very popular nowadays, almost 95 % being women. Women pay far more attention to their skin then men. They want to have clean, soft skin with a chocolate color.

Having the chocolate color is not an issue for people with dark complexion, that is natural for them. But women with whiter complexion want to have the brown color on their skin because it adds more style and sensuality. They prefer summer holidays on a beach, applying sun-tanning cream on the skin and letting the sun do all the work for a chocolate complexion.

It seems that summer holidays are not enough to maintain darker complexion. So, there are tanning saloons offering the same effect. That way, women don’t have to wait for summer to come. They can easily get a skin treatment any time of the year.

Apart from skin color, women take good care not to have stretch marks on their buttocks. It is a situation that with age, becomes harder to eliminate. There are, however, various skin treatments in beauty saloons for this type of skin problem.

Both women and men have occasional problems with skin spots on the face. They are easy to treat but don’t quite help for a good look. Again, beauty saloons have treatment for treating spots that tend to appear often on the skin.

Beautiful skin is also hair-free skin. Small hairs on the legs and arms are quite natural for the human body. But while it is natural for men to have small hairs on the arms and legs, women do not accept a single hair on their legs or arms. Waxing does the trick, with a small price of pain during the procedure.

This happens because, when your body is stressed, the increase in stress hormones can throw off your equilibrium and you can experience all sorts of changes, such as weight gain, increased blood pressure, and worsened acne. Stress not only affects acne flare-up, in general it worsens the overall skin condition. Acne is a very common disease and stress often has a starring role in the acne drama.

In most cases, stress is the number one factor why a person’s acne condition never changes. As for the rest of your body, stress affects your body and health in many ways, from minor to major. It impacts virtually every system in your body, and even ages you prematurely. Stress-induced acne can be controlled by using a proper, personalized acne skin care regimen, and by reducing stress.

Pick out a skin care regimen that is suitable for your skin type (or preferably, see one of our beauty consultants to customize a program for you) and follow it closely. This will help keep your skin in pristine condition so that when stress comes rolling around, breakouts are kept to a minimum. What can you do? The simplest good deed you can do for your skin may surprise you: sleep! Sleep is a healing miracle for the human body.

When you sleep, your body automatically refreshes itself. It heals wound and rejuvenate your skin naturally. You should optimize your sleep if you want to get healthier skin and prevent acne as well. Of course, you can’t eliminate stress from your life. But you can minimize its damage by leading a healthy lifestyle. A balanced diet and at least seven hours of sleep every night will help you build a stronger physical foundation; if you’re well fed and well rested, you’re less likely to feel irritated by the events of your day.

Sleep is vital to our mental health, and helps reduce stress or at least help us effectively manage it. It also physically reduces the “stress hormone” cortisol, which is the hormone released by the body when it feels under siege by stress brought on by lack of sleep, bad diet, or stress itself. Cortisol messes with your hormonal balance, big time, which triggers acne breakouts.

Remember, you can’t eliminate stress completely, but you can definitely reduce the affect it has on your acne. If someone finds out that his or her acne is easily aggravated and seems to have no sign of disappearance, then they should consider eliminating the cause that possibly make their acne worse immediately.

Rather, our whole bodies sort of act as synthesized, harmonious listening, seeing, feeling tool that works together and processes how we actually perceive things like sound, visions, smell, pain, and so on and so forth. This is such an interesting theory, but it’s just that -a theory.

Hey, wonder if our skin is misbehaving, can we whisper to it to clear up and it will obey? Now THAT would be quite a concept. If someone could just put it into action, they’d be instant millionaires in the world of acne treatment products and regimens!

Another reason I prefer drinking green tea is because it is such a subtle, light flavor, and you don’t need to put cream in it, which makes it a healthier option, unless of course you drink your coffee black. If you can drink organic green tea, that’s even better for you, so I’d always try for the organic option because there are less toxins (ie pesticides) when you go organic, and often a better, smoother flavor. This goes for coffee too, if you’re a coffee drinker.

I’ve found that I can drink an entire mug of green tea with stevia sweetener, and my face does not break out. I’m not sure exactly why, but it’s true, at least for my skin, so it’s one of the few caffeinated beverages I can enjoy without my skin paying for it in spades.

Another huge health benefit to green tea is the fact that it is loaded chock full of antioxidants. It is one of the better known antioxidant teas, in addition to white and black tea, and many people drink it for that reason alone. It has also been linked to lower risks of breast cancer as well as other cancers commonly found in both men and women.

It gives you a nice, gentle energy boost, and some even think that it has thermogenic (calorie burning and weight loss) properties, so you often see it as an additive in diet supplements.  So, if you’ve never tried green tea, I’d highly recommend you try it. The health benefits are great, and organic types do not break my skin out. If you are worried about this, don’t let it steep as long, that way less of the caffeine is diffused into the water.

The theory (I shouldn’t have said fact, I don’t believe it’s been medically proven, although it may be true for some people), is that milk and dairy products actually are bad for your skin and can cause and aggravate breakouts.

I remember seriously considering giving up milk, cheese, eggs, ice cream, yogurt, all these foods that I really loved (and thought I needed for the calcium) just so I could see if it gave me pristine skin.  But alas, I never did follow through with it because I guess that my love of double cheese pizzas, mint chocolate chip ice cream, and cheese enchiladas ultimately won out.

And the poor substitutes for the real thing when it came to dairy subs? Well, they were ok for when you were dieting, but c’mon when you wanna be bad, it’s so fun to pig out on dairy. Even if it does result in a little painful stomach distention.

There are quite a few people, and of course many vegans (vegetarians who do not eat meat, fish, or any type of dairy product), of course, who advocate not eating dairy for health purposes and who also claim that it’s good for your skin. And there may be some truth to that, because Alanis Morisette isn’t the only one that I’ve heard say she gave up dairy and her skin has never looked better.

Has anyone out there gone on a dairy free diet regimen, and found that it has also cleared up their skin? We’d love to hear from you. I do think there may be something to it, at least for certain people. And it does make sense because dairy products are such a source of allergens for a lot of people – maybe it’s some sort of allergic reaction some people get to it?

Annnyway….would love to hear from anyone on this subject.

Many women have experienced the improvement that being on certain birth control pills can provide in their acne problems. A lot of the birth control pills on the market are estrogen-dominant, which means that they naturally lower the testosterone (male hormones, or androgens) in the body. This means that the likelihood of acne decreases, since androgens are actually the base cause behind most cases of acne vulgaris. Acne is, after all, a hormone-based skin care problem.

The more balanced your hormones are, which can happen many times on women who have unbalanced hormones, then go on the pill, because they are imbalanced to begin with, the less likely it is that acne will form on your face. Excess androgens, or testosterone, will force the body to create more sebum (oil), which collects and traps dirt and bacteria, which creates whiteheads, blackheads – well, you know the drill.

Women who have been on the pill for years and years, which is the woman’s situation that wrote in, may actually experience a surge in their acne, even if they are in their forties when they come off the pill. Why? Because sometimes the effects and benefits of the pill aren’t even realized until one takes themselves off the pill. They may not even know they had a pre existing overload of testosterone before because they’d been on the pill for so long, but once they come off, here comes the acne.

Being on the pill for years and years is not supposed to be good for you, so I’ve heard. Then I’ve also heard there may be some protective benefits of the pill, no matter what you believe, there are some natural hormonal acne solutions that you can try as well that will try to sync up your hormones to healthy, non acne conducive levels.

That’s exactly what happened to me yesterday when I was totally stressed out about these wedding reception invitations we had to send out. I was getting hit from all angles, with people calling me to add on new invitees, my husband (we got married a few short months ago, we’re having a reception later, it’s kind of out of order, I know!), not knowing if he got everyone and unable to provide me with the addresses I needed, and trying to figure out how many more I needed to print out, because yes, we saved tons of money by printing them ourselves, but let me tell you, that was a lot of additional work!

So, as I was feeling my heart rate go up and my breath get short, I could also feel a slight throbbing on my chin, right under the left side of my bottom lip. I swear, I could feel a zit forming on my chin! And sure enough, within a few hours, I felt there and had a hard bump, but it was still too far under the surface to show any color, it was just a bump. Then, when I woke up this morning, of course it must have come to the surface enough and it was reddish in color, and misshapen, a bump in other words, or a swollen area, but more localized than it was last night.

I’m sure that if you’ve been struggling with acne for a while, as I have, you have experienced this. Cortisol, which is the hormone that is released in abundance by our bodies when we are under a lot of stress or are in sticky situations, is actually a huge hormone disrupter. It can cause your androgens, which are the male hormones in your body, to go haywire, which in turn lends itself to acne. In fact, hormone imbalance is a huge reason for acne prone skin.

But that’s not all cortisol is responsible, or at least partially responsible for. It has also been linked to obesity, so it is best to keep cortisol levels under as tight control as possible for your life, which means you need to minimize stress levels. In the end, it’s good for your weight and good for your skin.

The pill I’m on is called Alesse, by the way. I’ve noticed that on my “off week” where I am taking only the placebo sugar pills, which I actually don’t take, because I have a good memory and go right back on them after my week off is up, my skin actually becomes extremely clear, like not a dot of acne or a slight bit of bumpiness in sight.

I thought it was odd that my skin would clear so exceptionally on my days off the pill, since this should be when my own hormones would take over, and if there were to be a breakout, you’d think it would be around this time, but no, my skin actually gets better when I’m off of it for this short time.

If anyone reading is a doctor or has a medical background and can answer this question for our readers, some of whom I’m sure have noticed the same thing I have, it would be greatly appreciated! It’s interesting to navigate through the little nuances of acne and why it happens, and how our bodies and our hormones especially, work so that we can work with what we have and get the clearest skin possible in the most natural way possible, and if we understood the mechanics behind it, it would make clearing our skin all that much easier, and of course getting rid of those pesky hormonal acne breakouts earlier on!

The only ingredient that puzzled me was the maltitol, which I’ve only ever seen in foods as a sugar alcohol (sweetening agent) usually used in low carb foods. And it gives you really bad gas if you eat too much of it, so I found this a rather odd ingredient for a skin care product, but loved the other natural ingredients I saw in it. I’m going to research this maltitol thing, who knows, it may actually have very therapeutic properties for the skin, and now I’m curious about it, since up until now, it was only a food ingredient that I ignored like the plague in diet foods since it wreaked havoc on my digestive system.

Here is the question from the reader, if anyone has used this product, would you kindly post a comment below about your experience? Don’t know if I’ll get around to trying this product any time soon! Thanks!

Dear AcneMag Editors,
Hi, I’m a new reader, and I was looking to see if you have reviewed a product:
Boscia Clear Complexion Kit . I have acne rosacea and always looking for good products and good value.
Thank you for putting information out there for people like me!

Answer to reader :
Hi XXXXX. Sorry for the delay in responding. No, we have not reviewed this product yet. I have never tried it and haven’t really heard anything about it, this is the first I’m hearing. If you happen to try it (I’d suggest seeing if they offer a money back guarantee), please let us know how it works, I’m sure there are others like you who are looking for good user reviews on this product! I looked at the Sephora page with this product and I saw fairly mixed reviews, which is why I suggested asking if there is a money back guarantee, in case it did not work for your skin.

I’ve always observed, especially in the last five years or so, I guess my acne has “evolved”, that I will either break out on my face or on my back, but it’s never both at one time. For example, shortly after my Las Vegas wedding and when I weened off of the Zenmed Dermacleanse supplements, I noticed that my back broke out but my face was clear and pristine, almost clearer than it had ever been really. So, while it was nice that my face was extremely clear, it wasn’t so nice that my back had broken out in its place.

Conversely, the acne seemed to shift, and for a few days my face broke out after that while my back was mostly cleared up. Very odd! I can’t really think of a scientific or logical explanation for it that would be plausible, but there it is, that’s how it happened, and how it has happened on and off for a while. I have since started back on the Dermacleanse and everything is cleared up now, shoot, now I’m just waiting to break out again because we are planning a reception for the early spring, and then we’ll have all that planning and stress to deal with – fun!