I love sharing skin care tips, especially when it's something so uncomplicated that changes everything, like... How often to cleanse your face. Believe it or not, this makes a ginormous difference.
Did you know that adults tend to over-cleanse? It's easy to get caught in this trap. You think that if you just keep washing and washing, there will be no bacteria, no clogged pores, no oil, and surely no way for acne to form. But not only is this wrong, it's misguided. You're doing way more harm than good when you cleanse too often. You can't just wash the acne away.
Skin Care Tips for Acne: How Often to Cleanse
I like to think of your skin as being similar to your gut. Sounds weird, right? Stick with me. You probably know that your digestive system has both good and bad bacteria. When you take antibiotics, it kills bacteria, unfortunately killing the significant good bacteria along with the bad. To replenish good, wholesome bacteria in your gut, you need to take probiotics. Or if you didn't take antibiotics at all, and you eat a wholesome and nutritious diet, your gut will be wholesome and well balanced, though you could surely benefit from some extra probiotics.
Your skin operates much the same. We indiscriminately strip all the oil from our face when we cleanse (like antibiotics) and then have to replace the lost moisture with a moisturizer/face oil (like probiotics). But if you didn't strip all the oil from your face in the first place, your skin would be able to equilibrium itself out, though it wouldn't hurt to add a little extra moisture.
If you cleanse too often, your poor dried-out skin will likely kick into overdrive, producing too much oil to compensate, and you get stuck in this cycle of stripping the skin and replacing lost moisture twice a day, every day. So here are my tried and true skin care tips on facial cleansing for acne:
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