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Cleanliness is essential for maintaining healthy skin.  It is unbelievable how we seem to create problems for our skin without ever being aware of what the causes are.  Skin cleanliness is a huge part of keeping the condition of our skin in great shape.

Many of us touch our faces with our hands several times throughout the day without even realizing it.

  If we kept our hands totally clean throughout every day then this wouldn’t be a problem, but this isn’t possible.  We touch everything from shopping carts to car steering wheels that are never cleaned.  We touch things in public areas, or at our workplace that never get cleaned from one month to the next.  All of these germs we pick up are then transferred to our face whenever we touch it.  The germs then get into the pores on our skin and cause havoc, giving us acne, blackheads, and other irritations.

Often times, the cleaners we use on our face can cause problems, particularly in people who have sensitive skin because of the harshness of the products.  Your skin should always be treated with care and handled delicately.  For the majority of people, the skin on the face is the most sensitive.  We should take extra care of our skin, and by making simple changes that can have a dramatic effect over a lifetime.

Simply patting your skin dry, rather than rubbing it with a towel can reduce stretching, wrinkles, and more when the combined actions of doing this are added up over a number of  years.

If you find that you are getting breakouts on one side of your face or another, then you might need to figure out what is causing it. 

Questions to ask yourself may include:

• Are you rubbing your face with your hands?
• Are you resting your head on your hand?
• Are you talking on an unclean telephone at work?
• Do you wash your hands several times a day?

When you answer these questions you might just find what is causing your skin problems and it could be as simple as using a dirty phone or leaning on a dirty hand.

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