Stop Touching the Face With Hands!

Unknowingly, we certainly often touching hands to the face, whether it's just for stroking the chin, cheek touching, scratching your nose, leaned cheek into the palm of the hand, or simply get rid of hair that covered the face. Are you aware if possibility that is what makes acne appear on your face?

Palm of the hand = the source of bacteria

Almost all of our daily activities done by hands. So don't be surprised if most of the bacteria and germs that we encounter every day stuck in our hands. Acne is formed when the pores clogged by dead skin cells, oils, or cosmetics, then mixed with the bacteria. Imagine what happens when our skin is covered with oil and dust after a day of activities, then our hands that full of germs touching the skin. No wonder the acne on face never diminished.

The problem is, the activity of touching the face is usually done unconsciously. Or if it's done consciously, it's difficult to resist. How to stop this bad habit?

A. Make sure your hands are always clean

Should not be too frequent washing hands, as this can kill the good bacteria and make the hands skin becomes rough. Wash hands with soap after every activity that could potentially transfer germs. But remember, after hand are washed doesn't mean we are free to touch the face. It's just a precaution, at least if we don't accidentally touch the face, hands are in a state of "not too dirty".

Most importantly, make sure your hands are clean when it comes time to apply moisturizer, suns cream, night cream, mask, or acne medication.

B. Do not play the hair

Hair contains oil that if it touching the face (either directly or through intermediaries hand) can increase the accumulation of oil in the skin face and cause acne.

C. Use the back of the hand

If you really have to touch the face, for example, to expel a foreign object, use the back of the hands and not your palm. Back of the hand is not free of germs, but not as much as the amount of germs on your palm.

D. Make your hands busy

Usually habit of touching the acne and face skin done while being idle. To distract, give another habits for your hands, for example playing fingers. Put hands into pockets, holding an object with two hands, and folded hands in front of chest can also be a "barrier" so that the hand does not everywhere.

E. Put on gloves 

This goes for those of you who are not accidentally touch the face while sleeping at night. Surely you must make sure your gloves are always clean and regularly washed. Want a good trick? Apply a moisturizing lotion to the palms of the hands before sleep and cover with gloves. You will wake up with a soft and smooth hands.

F. Involve the people that close to you

Tell a friend, lover, brother, sister, mother, father, and work colleagues about the ill effects of touching face with hands. Remind them to warn you when you do it.      

Hopefully useful!