Water – The Easiest Natural Step for Acne Prevention

While there are several causes of acne, there are two kinds that are easy to understand, and more importantly, easy to do something about.

The first cause involves what you have inside you. Over the course of a normal diet, your body collects toxins, and stores them for processing into something less harmful to your body. In normal situations, your body uses all methods at its disposal to attack these toxins, including your kidney, liver and digestive tract. However, there are some times when your body gets overwhelmed, and needs to secrete these toxins out of your body another way. Often, you will expell them out through your pores, causing clogging, and eventually, an acne outbreak.

The second cause involves body chemistry. Hormones, stress, and other feelings can cause your body to produce an imbalance, which in turn, can cause secretions through the pores. This is partially the reason why acne often affects teenagers, as they have this kind of imbalance naturally. But stress and hormonal changes are no strangers to adults, either. Time of high conflict can also be the times of worse skin for adults.

However, there is a simple way to mitigate both causes, water. Water, plain water, has two very important effects on both causes.

Your body is working hard to expel toxins, and one of the things it needs most is water. In fact, one of the easiest steps to take is the “Water flush” which is simply to drink enough water to let your body take care of itself. How much is enough? The rule of thumb is half your weight, in ounces. So, a 150 pound person should drink 75 ounces of water a day. By providing yourself with enough fluid, you are doing your part to rid yourselves of an acne cause.

But often overlooked is the effect of water on your other emotions. People often mistake hunger, stress, depression or exhaustion for simple thirst. Drinking water can often help you overcome these feelings which cause you to become imbalanced. And preventing stress or exhaustion will in turn, help your skin.

So, I hope this simple advice makes sense. Drinking water has so many benefits that it shouldn’t be ignored, but the impact on your skin can be great — and you can start doing it right now.