If you're looking for acne fighting products, you'll find hundreds of those on the shelves of drug stores, supermarkets, department stores, and groceries. Because of their sheer number, it can be a challenge choosing the ones that will work for your particular skin. Every one of them seems to do something that's different from all the others. If those product commercials are to be believed, your face will benefit from using products that have harsh chemical ingredients in them. But nothing could be farther from the truth. The truth is, these products are simply heavily marketed and companies are willing to go as far as to hype them up. If you're objective is to prevent or treat acne, the answer is getting back to the basics. What you need to do is tune out all the hype and just concentrate on using simple but effective acne fighting methods.

Frequent face washing should be avoided. You may have been told before that you need to wash often. It's time to stop following this advice. If you spend too much time washing your face you can do damage. The glands under your skin will start producing more oil if you keep washing your face too often. This is to keep your skin well-hydrated. Extra oil production leads to more pimples. Just wash your face no more than twice a day: in the morning and at night. If your face needs washing during the day, simply splash a little water on it.

When shopping for skin care products and cosmetics, choose those labeled non-comedogenic. This is a word that means that the product has been proven to not cause (or make worse) acne. Make sure you check the label of each product or cosmetic that you are thinking of using. Skip anything that doesn't carry the "non-comedogenic" on the label. If the word is missing this means that the product is more likely to clog your pores than it is to clear them out. In a perfect world, you wouldn't have to use cosmetics. But we don't live in a perfect world and so your next best option is to use cosmetics that are gentle enough on the skin.

Wash your hair every day. The debate still rages on as to whether it's good for the hair to be shampooed every day. Do once a day shampooing until science tells us otherwise. Your hair will just get oily if it doesn't get washed every day. It's not just the scalp that will get oily. Oil will also travel down every hair strand. The oil reaches the pores of your skin when hair touches your face, neck, and back. This leads to clogs and zits and pimples. Mild shampoo is best for daily hair washing. Do this and you can count on having hair and skin that are healthy.

There's no shortage of products and methods that will prevent acne. If you've already got acne, these same products will be able to get rid of it. But you need to know that these products are mostly hyped up. If your goal is to stop and cure acne, nothing is better than going back to the basics.