DoctorOz: Put an End to Adult Acne | Oz Beauty

20% of women suffer from adult acne and while you may think it's a thing of the past Some have it worse than when they were in their teens and today I've got surprising reasons for adult acne They're easily fixable Renee's here. She thought her acne problems were behind her. It's not happening. It is not happening It's like I've turned into a teenager again. What's some good things about that? I guess but not the acne I thought I was done with it, but I'm not all right So when you normally work out you break out in the face usually all over it's kind of depends I mean along my hairline here. Sometimes it'll be around my nose on my chin sometimes between my eyes It's unpredictable when it happens predictable. There's no rhyme or reason Let's start off to we're all on the same page about what a pimple really is Okay So I guess a little animation on this and if you look at this you'll see that if you look at the skin of the Face just beneath it under the hair. You've got these little follicles where the hair is made these little oil glands here They'll push in there, but it's blocked off here bacteria get in there Love that that bacteria makes it grow larger. It swells it causes pain and finally on the surface look familiar. Yes You've been there a lot. All right, so when that happens to you, what do you normally do? Well, I hate to tell you this but I actually I know you pop I I do I pop it I can't handle it. It's just it's there, you know, everybody's looking at it Well a little tip next time clean it up get a needle clean needle and just go like this and just sort of lance it Like that, okay dig into your face like this at Lance it miss let the puss drain out You just saw how the puss is deep down when you go like this. You'd macerate the skin you beat it all up So yes worse. Yes, and you probably can't predict what causes the breakouts No, yeah, I can't like most people but I have a couple tips for things that often are responsible that most of you have never Heard of before. Okay, surprising first reason for adult acne is your pillow. Oh Think about this this beautiful pillowcase looks so clean, doesn't it? Yes, you sleep on your pillow for seven eight hours a night I hope yeah, right that you're not I try try how many hours it is It's still a fair amount and there's dirt. There's oil There's bacteria from your face your hands your hair has stuff in it from the environment the house It all gets onto this beautiful pillowcase and then that dirt is transferred back into your face Clogging up the pores. I just showed you the animation So often you wash your pillowcase Maybe every other week every other week. Yes Can we do better than that you think? Most definitely. All right, so general recommendations are once a week for pillowcases. Okay, but here's the double surprise The pillowcase is only part of the problem pull that pillowcase off if you don't mind the other big problem is the actual pillow itself You see this? Yes real pillow folks. The pillow inside the case is also breeding ground for dead So this is pretty thin. Yes, pillowcase stuff goes through that you sweat on a pillowcase. You're sweating on the pillow itself Yeah, and all this junk breeds bacteria and other kinds of contaminants. So you actually have to wash your pillows themselves Okay, same every other week. No, no, that's we called around Experts recommend you wash the pillowcase once a week the pillows themselves every six months Oh, okay, and you know simple to do just wash them out and we'll help you a lot Yeah I want everyone in America because most of it not washed your pillows in a long long time If it's been at least six months, which are for everybody pretty much has you wash your pillows tonight? You'll be a happy camper tomorrow tonight. You see beautiful moisturizer on your hands. I do and my hands and my arms You're very soft skin The lotion right here. Maybe a little extra. I love hand cream. Yes, but I put someone rub it in there good now When you go to sleep at night You ever put your hand near your face Yes, you do show me how you'd like sleep like a little fairy yes, and I know it's not good because then I wake up with fingerprints, but It's wonderful. Well a couple things what about your hands under your face? But one of the problems is you put hand cream on your hands and then you rest it on your cheek You're actually putting something on your face. That's supposed to be on your hands It's not called hand if you don't face cream is called hand cream for a reason They put different kinds of things in there. So your solution is to find a moisturizer that's called non comedogenic Comedogenic means causing pimples. So a non pimple cream. Okay, anything promotes acne has to be avoided I'm gonna give you a list right now. Okay, five things that are commonly found in products They are good for your hands and not good for your face. So coconut oil don't want it on your face Allergy extract great for hands not face sodium chloride. That's salt folks. You want salt rubbing on your face lauryl sulfate and isocetyl stearate These are chemical names. I put you know down dr. Oz calm You don't want them in your moisturizer, but you use late at night on your hands Okay, next surprising reason you get adult acne has to have medications. Okay, and some of them are not ones you'd expect So this and it's a side effect people don't want to give you acne with their medications If you have a sudden eruption that looks like this picture There's an image of somebody sit there and it came on pretty quickly Two things to look for you look for a multivitamin that has iodine in it. I take a multivitamin every day Yeah, I want you to take the multivitamin Okay, but if you have iodine in it that can actually create those kinds of reactions Okay, and you can get iodine from having table salt that has iodine in it. Okay, you don't have to get it from a vitamin Okay So if you do happen to have that acne just try getting a multivitamin without iodine being added to it Okay, if your doctors put you on medications frankly many can cause it but the most common ones are anabolic steroids Yes that we use for many reasons. Yeah, that will really hurt you. Okay, you'd be thoughtful about that. All right Thank you for being here. Appreciate