7 Clearer Skin Tips for Oily Faces
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Clearer skin can boost confidence in any situation. This can be particularly important for teenagers heading back to school. With clearer skin, kids can focus on what is important instead of worrying about acne or embarrassing skin situations. As an adult with acne, I can still sympathize with zitty teens. This post is sponsored by Lunchbox, but all opinions are my own.
I have been battling breakouts for years, and I would like to share some tips I have picked up along the way.
7 Clearer Skin Tips using CLEAN & CLEAR®
- Wash your face in the morning – Cleansing your face in the morning allows you to start your day with a fresh face and helps wake you up. Use MORNING BURST® Facial Cleanser, formulated with BURSTING BEADS® technology, to get a deep clean while refreshing your skin with an added touch of moisture without clogging pores. Another great one is ADVANTAGE ACNE CONTROL 3-IN-1 FOAMING FACE WASH. This wash contains max-strength acne-fighting Salicylic Acid, and it thoroughly cleanses skin and helps prevent future pimples.
- Exfoliate weekly – Scrubbing off the dead skin and grime plays an important role in skin health. Some blemishes can even be caused by excess crud build-up. Crud is probably not the technical term, but that’s why I am not a medical professional. Deep Action Exfoliating Scrub helps to invigorate the skin by cleansing deep down into the pores. Do this once or twice a week. Another product to use if you notice a lot of blackheads is the BLACKHEAD ERASER® Scrub. With multi-action beads, it exfoliates and cleans, helping you see fewer blackheads in just two days.
- Wash in the afternoon – If you are an extra oily person like myself, wash your face during the day, as well. You don’t want to over dry your skin, but getting that excess oil off can help unclog your pores and prevent new breakouts from forming. Deep Action Cream Cleanser Sensitive Skin is specially formulated for sensitive skin to clean deep down to the pores without over-drying. If you are washing your face more than twice a day, this is a great product to use to gently cleanse.
- Don’t pick and squeeze – This is my biggest problem. I cannot resist popping, plucking, squeezing, and straight up abusing all of my pores. This spreads bacteria, causes scarring, and it is probably the worst thing to do for acne. Instead use ADVANTAGE® Acne Spot Treatment which is shown to reduce the appearance of pimples in just 4 hours.
- Moisturize your skin – Just because you have oily skin doesn’t mean you should skip the moisturizer. It might feel like more moisture is the last thing your face needs, but dry skin actually triggers your pores to produce more oil. Applying ESSENTIALS Dual Action Moisturizer can help moisturize dry-skin while treating and preventing breakouts.
- Eat cleaner – I was actually told by a dermatologist that food has nothing to do with breakouts. I could not disagree more. Get to know your own body. Over time I have recognized a pattern with my eating habits and breakouts. For example, soy or dark chocolate makes me breakout in those nasty, hard, cystic-type acne bumps. Dairy creates tiny little pus-filled pimples. Hot stuff, huh? Keep a food journal to record how your skin looks after eating certain foods.
- Wash at night – Washing away the dirt, oil, makeup, and grime from the day is probably the most important step. This is one that I tend to suck at. Skin heals and rejuvenates itself while we sleep. If you have makeup and dirt in the way, it can interrupt this process. You want to give those tiny night workers a clean slate to work on. The Day and Night Pack keeps your skin feeling fresh and clean all day long with CLEAN & CLEAR® MORNING BURST® Facial Cleanser and NIGHT RELAXING DEEP CLEANING face wash.
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Do you have any tips for clearer skin?
Growing up my mom always used Oil of Olay on her skin every night. She swore by it and now that I am getting a bit older, I use it every night, too.
I don’t ever wash my face during the day, but I think that would be very refreshing. I also think drinking plenty of water helps my skin.
Great tips! I need to remember to wash at night more often. I’m usually so tired that i forget.
I’ll admit, I am awful about washing off my makeup, but I do use Clean And Clearn MorningBurst scrub when I wake up. Thanks for the great roundup of tips!
I need that Blackhead Eraser, hands down! that is my worst issue, with my skin! I just need to remember to wash face before I get to tired at night!
I have always loved Clean and Clear products!!! I need to get better at remember to wash my face more often when we travel.
I follow most of these tips, but I need to be better about washing at night. BTW – I love Clean & Clear products. I’ve been using them for many years. 🙂
Great tips. I am so bad at washing my face at the end of the night before bed.
These are great tips! I’d say exfoliating helps me for clearer skin.
I never go to bed with makeup on my face. I can’t sleep if I haven’t washed my face actually. I need to moisturize more though.
I love trying new skin care products. I remember my mother using Oil of Olay every night. Thanks for the contest.
I never thought to wash in the afternoon! What a great tip- I think that would totally help clear some of my adult acne up!
My daughter really likes the Morning Burst cleanser. She says it really wakes her up and makes her skin feel fresh.
These are great tips! My daughter keeps complaining about her complexion, I will have to refer her to this post!
These are great tips! I always have to wash my face before laying down for the night. It just feels better after a long day.
I’m a picker AND a squeezer. I know I shouldn’t do it, but I just can’t help myself. =/
I love clean and clear. It works great.
My kids and I are huge fans of Clean and Clear products because they work. Using all the products together brings the best results too.
I used to use this product when I was younger. Now, I just wash my face in the am’s and apply moisturizer.
Great, great, great tips. I know that when I eat a oily, filling meal, I feel my face getting really yucky feeling… ha! I have oily skin to begin with so I am used to washing morning and night
These are all really great tips. I need to pass this on to my teen girls. I’m constantly telling them some of these things!
Great tips. I luckily have great skin!
If I didn’t wear makeup that day (jammie work days), I don’t wash my face at night either. Bad girl! I’ll try to get better about that.
I will admit that I am terrible at picking. And I do need to wash my face a bit more.
I am the absolute worst about leaving my face alone. I have a pencil I am totally going after it. I really need to keep my hands away from myself lol
Great tips you have shared. I remember having acne when I was a teen and hated it. Now I have two teens that deal with it and it stresses them out.