How to Achieve Beauty
After you have organized a health program including proper diet, plenty of drinking water, exercise and sleep in your corrective treatment for acne (pimples and blackheads), you come to the important matter of what to do directly for your skin.
Naturally the acne afflicted skin need very different care from that is normal. Cleanliness of course a first law in the treating of this condition even more so than for the normal skin but the means of attaining it are slightly different. The acne skin must be washed, frequently. But do not wash with ordinary soap and water. Instead use an especially prepared washing preparation, a creamy paste, free from alkelf and so medicated as to correct blackheads and open pores. This kind of a washing preparation is more penetrative than soap and is without the fatty content, acids and harsh alkalis that make most soap unsuited for the acne skin. Such a preparation makes a soft, deeply cleansing lather which soothes and invigorates the skin while it cleanses. Use it with warm water night and morning to completely cleanse the acne area.
Once a day, either night or morning after the washing or whenever convenient, smooth on an essentially pure face cream, preferably a pasteurized one, and remove with cleansing tissues. After this, as after cleansing treatment for acne, pat on a refining lotion, or mild as tringent skin tonic to close pores and to freshen the skin.
Be very careful in choosing your preparations, to get those which are suited to acne. Buy only the very purest and best. A pasteurized face cream, unlike almost any other cream, is a corrective for acne because it contains antiseptic properties and because it counteracts the excessive oiliness which is most often a characteristic of acne. Besides this, it is unusually mild and soothing
The skin- tonic for an acne skin must be both soothing and stimulating, and it must be astringent. One of the milky skin-toning lotions is best for mild cases of acne. For the more severe cases a clear, antiseptic refining lotion is better, as its action is stronger. Compresses wet in this tonic may be left on the affected areas for several minutes. After this treatment you may dust on your powder and rouge and other makeup provided they are of the very purest quality. as this is most important in cases of acne.
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