Wash your skin often using a mild face wash and wipe off with a clean washcloth. It is quite important to get rid of any impurities such as dirt particles and makeup before going to sleep so that your skin can breathe properly at night. Use mild cleanser at least twice a day but make sure that it rinses away easily. Toning the skin helps remove any residual cleanser or make-up that may have been left behind. A toner also helps restore the natural pH level of the skin, leaves your skin clean, clear and ready to be hydrated. Apply a moisturizer. A moisturizer leaves the skin feeling softer and smoother. It also helps smooth away fine lines and dryness.

A sunscreen can be applied on top of the moisturizer. Acne is a common problem faced by almost all teen-agers and youth. Acne is actually caused because of hormone imbalance. There are lots of over the counter creams, gels, lotions and potions. Most contain a powerful bleaching agent called benzoyl peroxide helpful against acne. Alpha hydroxy acid applied daily will help prevent acne out breaks if you have acne prone skin. Sensitive skins may be allergic to products like soaps and soap-like formulations. Dyes, formaldehyde (released in the finishing process. Cosmetics can also cause allergy to your skin.

Use proper brush for the particular product that you use because using wrong brush also causes skin irritation. For most makeup, use natural-hair brushes for easiest and best application. The most important thing that you can do for your facial skin is to avoid sunlight or use liberal amounts of sunscreen. Sunlight causes the skin to age and causes skin cancer which is the most common malignancy in humans. Never go to bed with your make-up on. Wash hands before applying cosmetics, especially to your eyes because your hands contain bacteria that could cause infection to the eye.

Recently, however, it has been realised that the sebaceous gland is a secretory gland and not an excretory gland, which means that it can manufacture all its ingredients for secretion from the basic components available in the blood. It does not require the preformed components to be present in the blood for excretion to the surface of the skin.

Some people try to clean their skin with household products, such as besan (gram flour), aata (wheat flour) or other similar agents. These particulate substances have the capacity to absorb the oil from the skin in the same manner as talcum powder is used for drying the skin. The use of besan, aataor other similar products was prevalent before the soaps had been invented. In the present circumstances however, it seems a social crime to waste edible products for cleaning the skin when there is such a severe shortage of foodstuffs all over the world.

Most such people who use eatable materials take refuge in the thought that they are using only a few grams of the agent, but fail to realise that even 10gm of the flour per day by a thousand such persons amounts to a loss of 10kg of the product per day and 3,650 kg per year. One can easily calculate the number of people who would go hungry because of this loss. In any case, the powdery materials are far inferior in their cleaning efficacy compated to the simple soap and water.

Therefore, it does not matter whether the oils and fats are low or high in the blood; the sebaceous gland can manufacture its own fats and release them to the surface of the skin. Thus, food has no role to play in the causation or aggravation of acne.