The rules for treating blemished skin do not change much with age, so adults as well as teens benefit from healthy habits. The first order of the day is to make sure her skin is cleansed daily, without fail.  Many teens have erratic habits and they just layer more makeup on skin that hasn’t been cleaned and treated.  Teens are resistant to cleaning, toning, and treating their skin EVERY night before bed, but the chances of success rise exponentially with consistency.

Using Spot Remover at the first indication of an eruption is very helpful.  Many a pimple can be stopped in its tracks by catching it quickly with this concentration of essential oils.  Spot Remover contains, among other things, tea tree essential oil, which has been found to be even more effective than benzoyl peroxide for clearing blemishes.  A very small amount is all that is needed and the little bottle lasts a very long time. 

Finally, eating a healthy diet cannot be overemphasized.  The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia reports that people who adopt a diet rich in grains and proteins have 50% fewer pimples.  This is a lot of spots.  Fresh vegetables and whole grains cereals and breads should replace highly processed white bread and cereals that encourage a flood of sugars that in turn trigger high levels of insulin and insulin-like growth factors.  The end game of this is an increase in sebum production in the skin that incubates pimple-producing bacteria.  Sixty to ninety-five percent of Westernized populations, who consume more refined foods, suffer from acne, compared to the almost complete absence of acne in hunter/gatherer societies whose diets are composed of minimally processed plant and animal foods.  The Inuit of Alaska were once clear-skinned; acne arrived in the far north with a western diet of waffles, hotcakes, sliced bread, and doughnuts.

Advice pertaining to healthy diets is often hard to swallow, but there it is.  Once again, we are what we eat.