How to Get Smoother Skin

The shelves are lined with an abundance of beauty products that are "proven" to reduce the look or large pores, blemishes, acne, scars and aging. Many of these products do reduce flaws in the skin but there are daily precautions you can take to reduce break outs and to create smoother skin.

Hot Water

Extremely hot water can strip the skin of its natural oils making it rough and dry. Use tepid or warm water when washing your face and gently exfoliate a couple of times a week. Exfoliating more than that can also irritate the skin so less is more in this case.

Tinted Moisturizer

Moisturizers keep skin from being too dry but adding a tinted moisturizer can reduce the look of blemishes and give your face a healthy glow. Neutrogena Cosmetics Healthy Skin Enhancer is a tinted moisturizer that includes retinol; an ingredient used for decreasing the look of fine lines. It also includes sunblock to protect your skin from daily outdoor activities.

Reducing Large Pores

Sun exposure and "picking" at your skin can damage pores and cause pores to increase in size over time. Pore minimizers such as Clinique Pore Minimizer Thermal Active Skin Refiner, which helps to open pores for debris removal, are available at major department stores. Oil of Olay's Definity Pore Redefining Scrub is another product that helps to minimize pores by simply washing your face.

New Products

New Products should be introduced into your daily beauty regimen one product at a time. The addition of new ingredients may cause break outs or skin irritations. If you're adding several beauty items all at once it will be hard to narrow down the culprit behind the break out.

Take notes

Pay close attention to your daily beauty routines because it may be the cause of problematic skin. Use a beauty journal and take notes on what you've been doing for your beauty regimen. Besides facial products; take note of mundane activities such as which side of your face you sleep on. Does your face break out in the area where you hold your phone? Do you rub your face often and does the skin seem irritated in that area? Have you noticed fine lines around your eyes and would a satin or silk pillow case benefit your skin?