Environment Contributes To Acne

August 28, 2008 · 74 views · Filed Under Skin Care

It is said that hormones are main cause of acne. It is considered as true because during teen years, acne attacks more and in teen years hormones level get disturbed. But its not necessary that acne appears only in teen years, many people gets acne in their 30′s and 40′s. It means there are some more reasons or contributing factors which affect our skin condition due to which we get acne. Our environment is considered as most common contributing factor in acne.

How can we say that environment contributes to acne?
How can environment affects hormones or causes acne. Environment causes acne by affecting already clogged pores. Now a days our environment contains many impurities like dirt, dust, oil, humidity and pollution. When we leave house, we have to face all these impurities which attacks our clogged pores. Bacteria, that are trapped in clogged pores, mix up with these impurities and aggravates skin condition. In fact kitchen has oil impurities and it is necessary to follow precautions before entering into kitchen.

There are many other environmental factors as well like weather. Weather can affect your skin condition if you do not take care of your skin according to it. like in summer you don’t need to use moisturizer as during summer our skin is already too oily but in winter if you do not use moisturizer then your skin become so dry that it becomes flaky and dead which leads to further acne breakouts.

Sun is a essential part of our environment and people considered sun as acne curing agent, and during summer people spend most of their time in sun to get tanned. Ultraviolet rays of sun are very dangerous and affects directly your skin. Over exposure in sun is very harmful specially for those people who has acne.

Psychological environment factors:
There are psychological environmental factors which affects acne as well. Psychological environmental factors are those situation which are associated with other living organisms and which affects your mental heath and your behavior. Like more stressed situations and more exciting situations causes acne breakouts. Many people have noticed that before any special occasion or special event or in more stress conditions, acne starts appearing. Because it is said that during stress male hormones testosterone, which are present in both males and females and main cause of acne, level increases. Pregnancy is considered as psychological environment factor during which hormones level increase and cause acne.

Precautions:
If you take good care of your skin before going outside from house, you could get rid of acne. In summer days use sun block to protect your skin from ultraviolet rays of sun, in winter use moisturizer. There is no need to over wash your face after coming back from outside. Wash your face twice a day and take bath twice a day in summer. Keep yourself cool and content during more stressful situations and more exciting situation.

Author Bio:
Liza Hunt has been an expert in skin health writing specifically on the subject of acne. Her work has been published on various magazines and provides insightful advise for natural acne treatment and acne cure. For more articles on acne and its causes please visit http://www.acneless.com/Â

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