Many women believe that their breakouts may be due to an allergic reaction, acne, sensitive skin or simply miserable skin.

There are precise reasons for breakouts and while the above may be true, it can simply be due to your hormones.

Usually during your menstruation cycle, there may be evidence of breakouts-one week before menstruation, during and perhaps one week or thereabout after the cycle is complete.

Hormonal breakouts a somewhat unavoidable, but yet, it can be controlled. Your skin lives, it breathes, it repairs itself, it breaks down, breaks out and then if provided with the proper care, it can and will break through.

Sometimes, or more realistically, oftentimes, we women wait until our skin breaks down before we search for a breakthrough. We seldom select a breakthrough that warrants our time, patience and commitment. Instead, we either choose blood purifiers or anti-biotic-these shortcuts are short-lived, momentary or temporary fixes, just like your concealer. Instant gratification ought not to be your goal; rather you ought to seek out your skin’s best-the underlying conditions that are conducive for your skin to strive. This is the main ingredient for healthy skin.

Due to the fact that our skin is alive, it can be trained or re-trained. Consistent care and attention lends itself to familiarity and contempt for improper consideration. This basically means that our skin becomes accustomed to a particular way and once ignored, it can and will rebel, therefore informing you of what it requires, needs or wants. Your skin can speak, but you must learn its language.

As women we pay attention to the skin on our legs and hands, our hair, toes and feet. We know exactly when our feet require maintenance, our hair yearns for nutrients and our legs could do with or calls for sustenance. Women seldom leave their home without ’creaming’ or moisturising their legs, feet and hands. We oil our scalp, condition and steam our hair, yet we are ignorant when it comes to the needs and requirements of the pores on your face.

Could your breakouts then be due to your lack of attention, care and involvement when coming to your pores? Cosmetics can only do so much and when it is removed, it is you who lament your skin’s condition! Don’t complain, just comply! To breakthrough and break free of your breakouts require consistent care-every morning and night for a period of time. Your skin will be better for it and it will begin to speak to you when you are becoming too flippant. You must make a conscientious effort to persist with your skin’s treatment if your breakouts are to subside and eventually be controlled.

Have you ever tried to remove a centre or side part from your hair to change the style or re-slant/remodel your eyebrows? This is quite difficult to accomplish because you have trained your hair and brows to be a specific way.

An equal amount or most likely, more time is required to facilitate a change in your skin’s appearance, however, know that it will remain that way if you continue to mould your skin in the manner in which you prefer. Anti-biotic and blood purifiers cannot and will never accomplish this and as such it is short-lived.

What happens to your hair if you fail to wash condition and steam it for a period of time? Now, lets say you have a scalp condition such as psoriasis or simply dry flaky scalp. Will running water through it with any type of shampoo suffice? Will this rid your scalp of its present condition? The same holds true for your skin, your pores.

Remember washing is not cleansing and rinsing does absolutely nothing to assist in cleaning your skin. In order to clean your skin thoroughly you must obtain specific tools, such as cleansing sponges, a cleanser conducive to your skin type, tepid water and an antiseptic cleansing agent. Scrubbing your skin only adds to the breakouts especially if you are doing this too often. When you scrub, you exfoliate or remove the dead skin cells from the surface of the skin.

However, if it is done too often, you will also be removing the natural oils from your skin’s surface that protects and shields it from environmental impurities.

Without this barrier, your skin becomes susceptible to such impurities and will break out, because it is now dry and open to infection.

The natural oils on the surface of the skin must not be removed, even if your skin is oily; the production of the sebum (oils) ought to be controlled. In order to do so one must take into account that which you inject into your skin, the synthetic oils from cosmetics, may also be the cause of your breakouts. Please note there is a condition termed ’cosmetic acne’ that individuals with oily skin can contract. Therefore in an attempt to control your breakouts control your application brush and powder puff. You will be controlling your pores’ tendency to produce excess oils.

Your pores have a function and you must ensure its proper functioning by keeping it clear of bacteria and such. This can only be accomplished by a daily skin care regime. If this is done daily together with proper, professional assistance and guidance, the results you long for will be forthcoming, I assure you.

So do not wait for your skin to breakdown, before you search for a breakthrough, because the longer you treat your skin in a particular manner; the longer it takes to re-train it .the longer you hold on to your application brush and powder puff, the more oils you inject and infect your skin; the longer you take to break free from your breakouts, the longer your breakouts break your confidence and esteem. So opt to not break out, but break-in to your pores...