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Changing seasons calls for changes in your skin care regimen as well. And with Spring just around the corner, it’s about time you make a few tweaks in your routine to make sure your skin stays fit and healthy all through the new season

Use More of Sunscreens

Springtime is when you pull out all those short dresses! This means more skin show to the sun. So, make sure you slather on sunscreen all over your body before you venture out. Choose a light broad spectrum formula that protects your skin from the UV rays without leaving it too greasy. Also, you need to use at least SPF 30 sunscreen in the spring season because the sun is stronger in the Spring than in Winter.

Exfoliate Gently

The low temperatures and the chilly winds of Winter can cause the buildup of dull, dry, dead skill cells on the surface of your skin. So, you need to rejuvenate your skin with a gentle exfoliant. However, instead of using exfoliants that contain ingredients like walnut shells and apricot pits that can irritate the skin, choose chemical formulas that contain alpha or beta hydroxy acids.

Use a Tinted Moisturizer

As the weather starts to warm up, you might need less hydration and less makeup too. This is why a tinted moisturizer is a great option for Springtime. It gives the skin a healthy dose of moisture along with a hint of color to even out your complexion. Not only does it shorten your morning skincare routine, but it also reduces the risk of a makeup meltdown.

Acne treatment therapies focus upon two aspects of acne: its prevention and management, and the removal of its more lasting effects. Looking at the latter first, acne scars can be unsightly, and there are several methods currently used either to remove them or to hide them. Some of the more radical are surgical, while others involve modifications the surface of the skin by means of techniques akin to sandpapering, and also cosmetic techniques.

There are therapies that can be used to mitigate the condition if not remove it altogether. Before discussing these it will be necessary to consider what causes acne, because without that knowledge there can be no effective treatment. The reason that acne is most prevalent in teenagers is that the generation of sebum is promoted by our hormones: specifically the male hormones known as androgens that both males and females begin to create in quantity during puberty. These cause the sebaceous pores to enlarge, and sebum to be produced in larger than normal quantities.