You sleep with make-up
This is very bad. Never sleep with make-up on. Don’t even try it occasionally. The problems can affect your skin for a while. This should never be an option.

You wash your face with bar soap
You want to retain that smooth, soft face. Put that bar soap away. While it may be laudable to keep your face clean, using bar soap makes your face dry and irritated. Bar soaps destroy your skin’s protective lipid barricade and leaves unwanted residue over your skin. You should get yourself a facial cleanser.

You never moisturize
Moisture is what keeps your skin soft, velvety and hydrated. Most people assume that their skins are hydrated simply because they have oily skin. This is untrue.

You forget to exfoliate
You complain of breakouts yet you don’t believe in the ministry of exfoliation. How can that be?

You don’t eat good food
Avocado pear contains the fatty acids you need to keep you skin aglow. Add good food to your diet.

You don’t use oil on your face
That you have an oily face or skin doesn’t mean you should avoid using oil on your face. Infact it has been learnt that using essential oils on face kills bacteria that cause breakouts and can help to slow down the rate of oil production from the sebum glands usually as a result of over-cleansing.

You drink too much cow milk
Skin experts have discovered that dairy products such as cow milk can make your acne go worse and accelerate your ageing process. They usually have more effects on women due to their hormonal nature.

dominique: By bar soap do you mean toilet soap, medicated soap or laundry soap? I use medicated soap on my face on days I don't exfoliate. Abeg clarify o

segunsd:

There are facial cleansing bars. You should use one of them instead.

ferhyntorlah:

Eg Dove Cream bar and shower creams/gels, right?

When I use the above, there is this slippery feel on my skin that makes me want to keep using water all over my body till the slippery feeling is gone. Isn't that a moisturing feeling?

Ammanda :
add water. Good water intake prevents dehydration .

segunsd: You sleep with make-up
This is very bad. Never sleep with make-up on. Don’t even try it occasionally. The problems can affect your skin for a while. This should never be an option.

You wash your face with bar soap
You want to retain that smooth, soft face. Put that bar soap away. While it may be laudable to keep your face clean, using bar soap makes your face dry and irritated. Bar soaps destroy your skin’s protective lipid barricade and leaves unwanted residue over your skin. You should get yourself a facial cleanser.

You never moisturize
Moisture is what keeps your skin soft, velvety and hydrated. Most people assume that their skins are hydrated simply because they have oily skin. This is untrue. Refusing to moisturize even an oily skin leads to clogging of pores. This causes blackheads and a lot of other skin disturbances. It is healthy to keep the skin moisturized twice daily.

You forget to exfoliate
You complain of breakouts yet you don’t believe in the ministry of exfoliation. How can that be? Exfoliating with Glycolic acid or granular scrubs will help to remove dead skins that clog pores. Exfoliating twice a week helps to make your complexion better.

You over-exfoliate
Aha! Because I mentioned that you don’t exfoliate you started to overdo it. Come on! Don’t mix and match too often such as using an acid-based moisturizer and an exfoliating cream on the same day can ruin your skin.

You don’t throw make-up away
This is hilarious. I have seen women who have clung to old make-up kits rather than discard them due to some nostalgic feeling. They ended up running the risk of using them and then reacting terribly to it. Throw expired make-up away. Abeg.

You do not sunscreen on cloudy days
Sun screening isn’t just for when the sun is out there glaring at us. The UV effects of the sun are also there on cloudy days. SPF helps to protect your skins from the sun’s ultraviolet rays which cause skin cancer. Most people forget that about 90 percent of skin wrinkles are caused by the sun. Use a moisturizer with SPF protection every day.

You do not want to sleep
Many people (I fall into that category lack good sleep hours). Sleeping time is an opportunity for the body to repair itself. “If you’re routinely sleep-deprived, your complexion will show it.” Get the beauty sleep you deserve and you’ll wake up to better skin.
You don’t know what’s in your cosmetic
You should. Learn the things that work for your body and things that don’t. Last time you reacted badly to a soap and another time to another cream. Do you have an idea what Zinc does to your skin? Anyway it protects your skin.

You don’t eat good food
Avocado pear contains the fatty acids you need to keep you skin aglow. Add good food to your diet.

You don’t use oil on your face
That you have an oily face or skin doesn’t mean you should avoid using oil on your face. Infact it has been learnt that using essential oils on face kills bacteria that cause breakouts and can help to slow down the rate of oil production from the sebum glands usually as a result of over-cleansing.

You drink too much cow milk
Skin experts have discovered that dairy products such as cow milk can make your acne go worse and accelerate your ageing process. They usually have more effects on women due to their hormonal nature.

Your skin says everything about you and a beautiful, tender skin can go a long way to help you boost your confidence in yourself.

Source: http://naijapose.com/save-that-skin-12-evil-things-you-do-to-your-skin-everyday/

segunsd:

Quite true Ammanda. It is essential to drink up to 8 glasses of water everyday. Apart from the fact that it keeps you hydrated, it has many health benefits that add up to your silky skin.

segunsd:

Bar Soaps such as medicated soaps and the others that have similar look and feel are best used on the body. Cleansers are more suitable for the face. There are bar soaps that have moisturizing qualities, those are not in this category. This category of bar soaps refers to both medicated, non-medicated soaps that leave your skin dry and maybe irritated after washing. Medicated soaps are to kill germs, they don't remove dead skin cells (which is what happens when you exfoliate).

There are facial cleansing bars. You should use one of them instead.

solidbroda: Greatest Bullsh*t of 2012.

Rolly83:

shattap there,u foolish useless he-goat!if u don't have any reasonable thing to comment just Bleep oofff.....

fonssy: can baby soap be used for the face?

ferhyntorlah:

Eg Dove Cream bar and shower creams/gels, right?

When I use the above, there is this slippery feel on my skin that makes me want to keep using water all over my body till the slippery feeling is gone. Isn't that a moisturing feeling?

girl king: I drink 'cow milk' every other day and I don't have acene. I'm I malfunctioning

deols:

After a while,you will get used to it. I did sha

segunsd:

Hormonal levels and reactions are different in people especially females and they change with time. That you don't react to it now does not mean you won't react to it later. And No! you aren't malfunctioning. While some people react terribly to nuts, others can finish a bottle of groundnut in a day. People are different in the way they react to certain circumstances/ products/ foods/ drugs.

girl king:
Thank you. Can you recomend a gσσδ exfoliant and cleanser for мe? I wan to start taking care of ℳα skin but I don't know where to begin

mawojuuche:
pls hww do i exfoliate n moisturize?