Skin Care for Men - Treating Acne

Skin Care for Men - Treating Acne monkeysee.com See how the experts do it. Hi I’m Perooz Sarshar co-founder of the Grooming Lounge. Today I’ve been teaching you the basic to men’s skin care. In this segment I’m going to teach you about acne. As you can see since you saw me last, I have a big juicy zit that I got last night, I guess when I woke up this morning and saw it right here on the tip of my nose. That when I least expect it. Acne comes when you least expect it. How does it form? Where does it come from? Well, acne is basically excess oil, clogged pores and it comes from diet, it comes from stress and it comes from hormones and sometimes acne is hereditary. Now different types of acne are treated in different ways. Blackheads for instance which are darker and you see it at the open pores are best treated with salicylic acid so you need a product with salicylic acid. Now the cleanser you would use to wash your face if you have acne would be a cleanser that would contain salicylic acid, okay. So you and the cleanser you use when you have acne is a lot different than your normal cleanser you would use. Zits for instance like the one I have here if I wake up one morning in my hotel room and I’m traveling are best treated with spot treatments and spot treatments usually contain salicylic acid like 2%, 1% or sometimes benzoyl peroxide and these ingredients help reduce the life span of the zit. All over acne requires Retin-A and Retin-A actually prevents you from scouring because if you notice anybody whose got all over acne sometimes have scars that come with that. If you do any of these or if you use any of these products and you find that nothing works at that time you should see a dermatologist and your most cases a dermatologist is going to recommend over-the-counter treatment like tetracycline and antibiotics. Now switching gears, I have to ask myself, should I stay or should I go? Do I pop it or do I not pop it. Well we always advice against not popping it because popping a zit improperly can cause scars and it can cause the zit to go in and spread more zits and you know in other words if I pop it the wrong way I’m going to create more bacteria on the surrounding skin. So what do I do, well I can take my concealer, concealers come in different forms and you can just basically take the pad here and you can cover up the nose area basically or the area where you have the zit so this way the zit is not exposed and there is concealers that cover up their natural skin tone and the way you want to pop a zit and the way you want to go about it is you want to make sure that the large white puss is just sticking out of the head. If the white puss isn’t sticking out of the zit you don’t want to pop it, it’s not ready to pop. Now what’s the proper way of popping a zit? I know this sounds gross but this is really important because most people do this and they have no idea what to do and there is a way to pop zits. You can use tools just like these implements that are again very popular with men and these tools are used to squeeze the pin pull or the zit out when it’s ready, okay. Some folks actually use a sterilized needle and they dip it in the alcohol or they use a lighter to sterilize it. That’s a little rough so I would stick to these tools but I’m going to show you how to pop a zit the proper way, alright. The first thing you want to do is you want wash your hands, you want to make sure your hands are clean just like so. So I’ll take a little bit of this cleanser again it’s very concentrated so I only use a dime size, okay. And with even pressure we’re going to push the zit out perpendicularly and we’re going to work around the zit, alright. And you have to be careful because if you squeeze it backwards and not outwards it can cause more inflammation and it can turn the zit red. So once I’ve washed my hands I wrapped 2 tissues just like this. I stand in front of the mirror and I want to push the zit not inwards when I’m popping it, I want to push it outwards. So I’m going to take the zit just like this and I’m going to pop it and be careful, I haven’t popped it yet. But be careful sometimes it tends to splash out and hit the mirror and you don’t want that but if it does you can just wipe it off. You don’t want to hurt your mirror in any way. So I’m going to take it just like this, I’m going to pop it and then notice it’s going to come right off just like that. Now once you pop the zit what you want to do is you want to take a tissue just fold him up and throw him away. You want to make sure there’s nothing on the mirror like we talked about earlier and at this time what I would do is I would apply some alcohol or some sort of spot treatment and salicylic acid in that area and the reason we do that is because we don’t want the bacteria to spread and we just want to shut things down and keep things clean and firm. And this could be done in different ways, I don’t really like to use alcohol so I would use an astringent toner like this and they’re great for that because they’re especially great for acne to be gin with and if that doesn’t suite you, if that doesn’t work for you what I recommend is using a spot treatment. Spot treatment like this one right here that contains 10% sulfur so this is basically going to nuke your zit and usually don’t put this on after you’ve popped the zit but I don’t think it’s a bad idea because you don’t want to let that zit get any further and you don’t want it to come back and now you don’t want it to come back tomorrow morning. You want it to come back at all. So just take a q-tip and dip it in here just like this and apply it on the area by treating it right in that spot right there. The other thing to remember when it comes to acne is that it’s really important to understand what sort of cleanser are you going to use and if you’re skins prone to acne and if you are getting acne and black heads it means that there’s a lot of dirt oil and bacteria meaning, A your either not washing your face properly; B you could be stressed out; C it could be diet, it could be all the factors that we discussed in the beginning. So take a look in the mirror. You have blackheads and how do we know if we have blackheads? Well usually they’re open pores and blackheads seem to occur for those of us that have who have a T-zone or combination skin. Oily and acne prone skin is usually a lot oilier and contains a lot more acne and notice the acne on one sensitive skin. It looks red, right. And blackheads, blackheads are they a form of acne. Well they’re usually in grown hairs and yes it is some form of acne and there are products out there to take remedy blackheads and those products usually contain aspirin, alcohol and they go in and they just basically dry it out. So that’s it for today, I hope you learned a lot. What I wanted to do today and our goal was to go over some basic skin care for men. There’s a lot more to learn when it comes to skin care. We just wanted to give you some basic, basic skills and basic steps and basic tips and some common products that you can use to create a better skin care routine for yourself and to look better and feel younger and to look fresher. Thank you so much and we’ll see you next time.