Acne Skin Care Treatments

There are some ingredients added to the facial creams and makeup we use, that exacerbate the efforts we make to get rid of acne and blackheads. This is one of the reasons why it can pay to shop at a health food store where natural makeup and natural face treatments are stocked. It is also a good reason to consider products from the Dead Sea for an acne solution, as the natural ingredients and omission of the culprits can only be good for your skin. Before we got so sophisticated in our product manufacturing, we used natural ingredients, and so I wonder why the ones available today have to be so loaded down with extras – very likely to preserve and create a consistency to persuade the buyer it is a fantastic face treatment. Ingredients to Avoid:

- D and C pigments, which are dyes producing a red color and are a derivate from coal tar. Yuck.

- Isopropyl Myristate, which thickens a product to allow a smoother texture on the skin. There are many “isopropyls” and variations. Some examples: isocetyl stearate, putty state, isopropyl palmitate, myristyl myristate, octyl state, to name a few.

- Lanolin – use the pure form only and not the synthetic product. Even the natural form may stimulate acne breakouts due to the pure oil base that it is. The artificial forms of lanolin include etoxylated and acetylate lanolin.

- Oils in all forms. You may have been brainwashed into thinking you must wear a moisturizer. I know I was reading that from the time I picked up Seventeen magazine as a young teen, and before that when my mom decided Avon Rich Moisture Cream was necessary to my apparently dry skin one winter as an 11 year old. I have since read a very illuminating book, avoided all moisturizers until this past year when I was experimenting on an expensive product for the sake of readers interested in it on another site. The book I did read at age 16 was The Natural Way to Super Beauty, by Mary Ann Krenshaw, and from there I saved a ton of money and probably my skin, by avoiding moisturizers as the automatic prerequisite to lovely skin. I think I had also observed that all these women who were using moisturizer all their live-long lives, hadn’t looked any better for it, and the claims of youthful smoothness were nowhere to be found. In fact, we do find we are often faced with cosmetic acne. In the search for how to get rid of blackheads, I do know that the less we clog up our skin with by-products and unnecessary chemicals, the more we are doing our skin a favor.