All About Oily Skin Care

When you have oily skin, common sense will nudge you to find out what causes it. Here are some facts about oily skin.

Excessive production by the skin of an oily substance called sebum causes oily skin. Too much oil makes your skin susceptible to complications which can be bad. In the same way, too little oil makes your skin dry, which is also bad. Excessive oil clogs the skin pores. It leads to build up of dead cells that risk bacterial infection and give rise to pimples or acne.

Care for oily skin basically aims to check the excess of sebum or oil from the skin. Skin care products for oily skin are therefore effective if they succeed in getting rid of the excess oil only, and not all of the oil in your skin.

Oily skin care starts with cleansing. For best results, cleansers must contain beta-hydroxy acid or salicylic acid to slow down the pace of sebum turn-out. You need to do cleansing once or twice daily. You need more cleansing under hot and humid weather because sebum secretion increases under those conditions. Read the rest of this entry »