Proactive Acne Medicine

Proactive acne medicine refers to acne medicine that heals the acne you have now and helps stop new blemishes from forming.  This treat and prevent approach is what gives these specific types of acne medicine their name, and is most associated with the Proactiv brand that now has celebrity spokeswoman Jessica Simpson behind it.  While there is a whole bevy of proactive medicines on the shelves (almost every acne medicine now makes the claim to prevent new pimples), the most proactive way to stop acne is to take other non-medical steps to help prevent it.

One of the most obvious courses of action is to treat areas where you tend to have acne break outs, even when you do not currently have acne.  If your chin seems to get zits every other day, still use a cream or alcohol pads even when you don't see anything.  When you buy proactive acne medicine, usually the box will contain instructions for an on-going treatment plan.  Beyond that, the best part of proactive acne medicine is the proactive part, which you can translate to prevention.  To help prevent acne outbreaks, there are several tips to follow:

Don’t pick, pop or squeeze, or otherwise mess with your skin. Squeezing blemishes or whiteheads can lead to infection or scarring. It almost always makes the acne you have worse.

• Wash your pillowcase often and always use clean face towels. Dirty towels and pillowcases can harbor bacteria      and germs that can make acne worse.
• Personal hygiene is very important, but acne is not caused by dirt, so don't over obsess, otherwise you will only aggravate the problem by irritating the skin
• Avoid friction on the skin
• Don't prop your hands on your face
• Wash, don't "scrub." Scrubbing will cause skin aggravation, which it turn will lead to more acne.
• Try to avoid facial perspiration, or wearing clothes that rub and irritate the skin
• Keep your hair away from your face when you sleep.
• Shower quickly after a workout
• Don’t go to bed with makeup on. Likewise if you have glasses, be sure to wash the skin on your face where the glasses contact all day.
• Drink 64 oz. of water a day. Water helps to flush out toxins in the body, which in turn helps prevent outbreaks

If you keep these tips in mind, and use any combination of topical acne creams, proactive acne medicines, vitamin supplements, or alcohol pads to treat any outbreaks you end up having, not only will you be much more likely to fight acne, but it will be a problem that, thankfully, should start occurring less and less often.