Glowing skin is something we all want, and we all need it to some degree, because who wants dull, oily, and often acne prone skin, or for that matter who wants shiny skin!  Well, there are always ways to beat what seems inevitable.  There are celebrities out there who just give you really good makeup tips, and they tell you that’s the way to deal with all your imperfections.  But makeup is not the key!

Yes, if you want to get warm, glowing skin, you should not use makeup to get it.  Makeup can compliment it.  But ultimately speaking, you can have naturally beautiful skin.  It’s not like large pores which are genetic.  The glow of your skin is entirely determined by you!

In order to achieve glowing skin, the first thing to do is to take a multivitamin. Dull skin can show a lack of certain essential vitamins such as vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, iron, and zinc to name a few, and all of these vitamins can also help you to fight against acne, even if you are not actually deficient.  Second, you want to make sure you are getting more good fats.  Good fats leave your skin soft, moisturized, and glowing.  And finally, you want more water.  This is a given for any skin problem.

Finally, you want to make sure you are taking good external care of your skin.  The major thing to do is to exfoliate!  Exfoliating takes away dead skin cells that are not only clogging up the pores and causing greater acne, they are causing dull and ugly skin.

Blackheads seem to be most prevalent on the nose. It’s a simple fact. At least for me, when I look at my forehead, I don’t really see blackheads. They have the blackhead strips for your chin. But when I look at my chin, the area of blackheads are very limited. Now obviously, the average acne sufferer has blackheads everywhere, because the average sufferer could very well suffer from acne anywhere on the body. The nose is just the most apparent.

This being said, if you want to get rid of blackheads on the nose, you should not actually use the pore strips for starters. Yes, they pull out blackheads, and it’s appealing to actually be able to see the blackheads and bacteria coming out on that paper. However, all this being said, basically speaking, it opens up the pores to attract more bacteria, maybe even worse bacteria, therefore causing more acne and more zits.

This being said, you should also not squeeze out the zits. It essentially speaking provides the same problem and the same issue. And it causes more infection, because the bacteria on your fingers, under your nails, and otherwise will only further aggravate the problem.

Instead, you should use a good acne treatment. To get rid of blackheads on the nose, the best way is to actually use something like tea tree oil. This will kill off bacteria and it will effectively help you to get all the right results and benefits while actually clearing out the problem, not further aggravating it, and preventing future buildup.

Benzoyl peroxide is one of the best and ironically one of the worst acne treatments out there.  It gets rid of acne by making the skin a hostile place for bacteria and other things that may well contribute to acne.  But at the same point, it also makes the skin a hostile place for you.  You end up with red, dried out, irritated, peeling, and sun sensitive skin that frankly nobody really wants to deal with.  But many consider that the price of an effective acne treatment.

Lately however, many have decided that they are unwilling to settle for a mediocre, sub part approach to acne fighting.  After all, there have been times when benzoyl peroxide actually makes acne worse, and if you ever stop using it, unfortunately it leaves your skin highly susceptible to an instant and unavoidable acne breakout due to high levels of sudden bacteria buildup.

This being said, if you are looking for alternatives to benzoyl peroxide, you have a wider selection than you might think.  You can go with the traditional antibacterial approach, meaning something that works like benzoyl peroxide, but without causing side effects and without causing damage.  The best choice in this realm would be tea tree oil.  But you could also use ingredients that would instead cause the skin to accelerate its rate of healing as well as its ability to shed away dead skin cells.  Salicylic acid is the gentlest option here, and it can still get rid of a significant amount of your acne.  Finally, you can look into bentonite clays.  They have been recognized for their ability to actually pull bacteria, toxins, and other harmful substances out of the skin. 

All of these ingredients tend to not only avoid damaging your skin.  They actually refresh and strengthen it.  So they get rid of acne now, and they keep it away in the future because your skin is more prepared to cope with it.  So if you are searching for alternatives to benzoyl peroxide, you don’t have to wait any longer, and you don’t have to accept something below your usual standards.  You can make your own choices and get better results in general.

You have to wash your face, there is really no way around it in all truth.  In all truth, basically speaking you are washing away impurities and otherwise external things that are contributing to your acne.  Without doing that, you are really only setting yourself up for greater failure in general.  So if you want to achieve the best results, there are a few basic things to do. 

First of all, make sure you are actually getting cleansing ingredients as well as exfoliators.  These can still be gentle to your skin, in fact they should be extremely gentle to your skin.  But this being said, basically speaking you have to be able to kill off bacteria while also exfoliating away dead skin cells that may well be clogging your pores. 

Basically speaking, make sure whether acne prone or not that you have the right cleansing ingredients that are gentle and will not dry out your skin like benzoyl peroxide, alcohols, or propylene glycol for example.  You can also look for especially high amounts of active ingredients while also washing at least twice daily.  In fact, if you use the right light moisturizers and cleanser combined, really you should only have to do it twice daily.  Your skin should not get particularly oily and otherwise damaged in between.  So it’s a matter of making the right total choices.

I think the second most common acne treatment is vitamin A.  It comes in close second to benzoyl peroxide, and frankly it’s used in everything from the cheap products to the expensive products.  Most often, in the form of retinol, it causes redness, irritation, sun sensitivity, etc.  But in the form of Accutane of course, we all have heard about all the nasty side effects it comes with, not to be ignored in the least.  And interestingly enough, unlike benzoyl peroxide, they have actually manipulated it into hundreds of little sub forms that of course work in slightly different power gradients and ways in general. 

They all come with about the same side effects, it’s just the severity and the likelihood of suffering it that vary.  But honestly, it surprises me sometimes, because in most realms, the FDA just doesn’t regulate vitamins and minerals among other things.  But with the Accutane form of vitamin A, we understand why they have to.  And frankly, with some of the different prescription forms of vitamin A, there’s good reason why they do.  I guess it just goes to show that just because something’s natural doesn’t make it necessarily safe.

I’ll admit, I have some of the worst habits in terms of getting rid of the blackheads on my nose.  They always seem to stick out, and despite the use of various acne treatments through my teen years, there are times when they’ve always seemed to stick out more than others.  So I squeeze them out and leave those tiny little holes, which fill up again quite quickly we can be assured, especially if you try to put make up over it.  But it’s one of those do as I say, not as I do.  That seems to apply to a lot of health professionals in general, but their advice is generally good and sound.  But anyway, there are two ways that I’ve found that are not actually as bad as the others I’ve used in the past.  Frankly, you shouldn’t do what I’ve done.  But these are two things that can do a more efficient and safer job. 

First of all, steam your face.  This will get to various areas of the face and it will allow them to get out.  For an easier way to do it, you can actually put a hot washcloth over your nose or other areas of your face that you would like to release blackheads in general. 

But also, those pore strips are not bad.  Don’t use them too often as they can rip off little skin cells as well, which is not good.  However, should you use them properly, they are not particularly bad.

I love Philosophy products.  I use their bath scrubs, lotions, all that good stuff.  They aren’t too thick, and they smell good, and that’s about the extent of what I need.  So I thought I’d try their face wash.  It’s called Philosophy’s Purity Made Simple face cleanser.  They claim that it will wash away impurities, make up, zits, the works.  I also tried their multi tasker.  So I was expecting great things I guess.  I gotta tell you, they did a much better job of making lotions and all that than washes and acne fighters.  I guess it’s a more complicated world. 

I mean how hard is it to find moisturizers and find something that smells good right?  Apparently, it’s a lot harder to actually find things that reduce acne, supplement the skin without clogging pores, etc.  I used this stuff, and my skin was always dry, I had greater acne breakouts, it was actually worse than using bar soap, which is realistically pretty bad.  But what do you do right?  You just have to move on and not waste your time again.  Luckily, I didn’t waste too much money doing it.  It’s just a matter of looking for the right kind of experience.