Do you have acne and hate it? Do you wash your face several times every day, or sleep on the same pillowcase every night, or shave with anything other than a twin-blade razor with the grain only? In that case you\’re actually making it worse for yourself, you\’re doing something wrong and it\’s making your acne worse. There are a bunch of these little-known things that people with acne tend to just do without thinking about them and they all make your acne just a little bit worse, and all put together they make it a lot worse, which means that if you eliminate them all it will make your acne a lot better, right? Exactly! Here\’s what you could be doing wrong and how to fix it:

1. You\’re sleeping on the same pillowcase every night. This is a mistake because it causes the bacteria on your skin to build up on the fabric which then transfers back over to your face when you put it down on the pillow every night thereby putting a lot more bacteria back onto your skin.

The way you fix this is, instead of using a clean pillowcase every night (you could), is to just put a fresh, clean towel down on your pillow every night before you go to sleep. This one, by far, has made the biggest difference for me. It\’s simple, doesn\’t cost anything, and almost no one else has heard of it.

2. You\’re a guy and you shave. You do this with something other than a twin-blade razor going only with the grain. For some reason I\’ve found that twin-blades are the least likely to nick you and tear up your skin. 3-blade razors (Mach 3\’s, etc.) are worse, single-blade safety razors are worse, and electric razors are worse because they tend to snag on your pimples and rip them apart.

Switch over to a twin-blade razor, shave in the shower after you\’ve washed your face, and do it gently while always going with the grain. There, problem solved, you should be getting very few nicks while doing this.

Also, you\’re probably using the wrong shaving cream. The important thing to remember is to get a shaving cream that’s specifically designed for people with acne and is something called \”non-comedogenic\” – what does that mean? “Comedogenic”, according to the dictionary, means “tending to clog pores especially by the formation of blackheads”, so a non-comedogenic product (whether it’s shaving cream or anything else) is specifically designed and guaranteed to not clog your pores when you use it, thereby guaranteeing that it won’t cause any clogged pores or the pimples that result from them. I personally recommend that you use Cetaphil Gentle Skin Cleanser (non-comedogenic) as your shaving cream–it’s gentle, non-comedogenic, and you get your face-washing over at the same time.

3. You wash your face 3 or 5 or 10 times per day or some ridiculous amount like that. This actually causes your skin to sort of freak out and go into emergency oil-production mode because you\’ve made it so dry that if it doesn\’t do this it\’s going to die.

I know it seems counterintuitive but if you\’ll try it for a few days and give it a chance it\’ll work: just wash your face once a day. It may take a day or two for your skin to calm down and slow down the oil production back to normal levels, but it will, and your skin will be much healthier for it.

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