Stress Can Cause Acne

Skin is the largest organ in our body, and the way we live our life affects how healthy our skin is. Stress can cause bad effect into our skin health. Let’s talk about stress and how to prevent them ruining our skin and giving us acne.

External Stressor – This include our external environment. We always need to look out on our environment to prevent skin clogging. Preventing acne involves clearing our pores from clogging, infected and irritated. The grease, oil and sun can clog pores for example when you are in the kitchen or near machines or out in the sun all day. These things will make your skin irritated and infected thus causing bad and ugly acne.

Use protective gear like wearing long sleeves and other protective wear or you can ask your dermatologist for other options. A small amount of sun is good and healthy to our skin but too much is bad. Under the sun for too long will cause the sebaceous glands to create more oil to cast of dried skin, too much oil will cause pore clogging. Use sunscreen when you are outdoors with minimum protection of SPF 15 and both UVA and UVB protection.

Internal Stressor – Your fear, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression and different types of internal emotions create chemical reactions and it will flare ups acne and skin irritations. Adrenal glands create more cortisol when we have these emotions. Cortisol the chemical that trigger your sebaceous glands to create more oil which will block pores. Same thing happen, extra oil + extra dead skin = pore clogging.

To fight internal stressor and prevent skin acne here are some health tips. Sleep and Rest play a big role on fighting acne. Maintain regular hours of sleeps regardless of work shifts. Reduce your stress, anxiety, worry and tension. Reading books, resting, listening to music, talking a walk, exercises, going out for an ice cream coffee, etc… can lesser these bad emotions you have.

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