Twenty percent of women suffer from adult acne and many of them have symptoms much worse than when they were teenagers. Dr. Oz reveals the shocking causes of adult acne and the unexpected solutions that will get your skin smooth and radiant in no time.
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00:04 About 20% of women suffer from adult acne.
00:07 And while you may think it's a thing of the past,
00:09 some have it worse than when they were in their teens.
00:11 And today, I've got surprising reasons for adult acne
00:14 that are easily fixable.
00:15 Renee's here.
00:15 She thought her acne problems were behind her.
00:19 It's not happening.
00:20 It is not happening.
00:21 It's like I turned into a teenager again.
00:23 Well, there's some good things about that, I guess,
00:25 but not the acne.
00:26 I thought I was done with it, but I'm not.
00:28 All right.
00:29 So when do you normally work out?
00:30 You work out in the face, usually, all over?
00:32 It kind of depends.
00:33 I mean, along my hairline here.
00:35 Sometimes it'll be around my nose, on my chin,
00:38 sometimes between my eyes.
00:40 It's unpredictable when it happens?
00:41 It's unpredictable.
00:41 There's no rhyme or reason.
00:42 Let's start off so we're all on the same page
00:44 about what a pimple really is.
00:45 OK.
00:46 So I got to do a little animation on this.
00:48 And if you look at this, you'll see
00:50 that if you look at the skin of the face,
00:51 just beneath it, under the hair, you've
00:53 got these little follicles where the hair is made.
00:55 These little oil glands here, they'll push in there.
00:57 But if it's blocked off here, bacteria get in there.
01:00 They love that.
01:01 That bacteria makes it grow larger.
01:02 It swells.
01:03 It causes pain.
01:04 And finally, on the surface, look familiar?
01:07 Yes.
01:08 You've been there?
01:10 A lot.
01:10 All right.
01:11 So when that happens to you, what do you normally do?
01:14 Well, I hate to tell you this, but I actually pop it.
01:16 I know it's the wrong thing to do.
01:18 I do.
01:18 I pop it.
01:19 I can't handle it.
01:21 It's there.
01:22 You know everybody's looking at it.
01:23 A little tip.
01:24 Next time, clean it up.
01:25 Get a needle.
01:26 Clean the needle and just go like this.
01:28 And just sort of lance it like that.
01:29 OK.
01:30 Dig into your face like this.
01:31 Lance it.
01:32 And just let the pus drain out.
01:34 You just saw how the pus is deep down?
01:36 When you go like this, you'd macerate the skin.
01:38 You'd beat it all up.
01:39 So it gets worse.
01:39 Yes.
01:40 And you probably can't predict what causes the breakouts.
01:42 No, I can't.
01:43 Like most people.
01:44 But I have a couple of tips for things
01:45 that often are responsible that most of you
01:47 have never heard of before.
01:49 A surprising first reason for adult acne is your pillow.
01:53 Oh.
01:54 We're going over here.
01:55 Think about this.
01:56 This beautiful pillowcase looks so clean, doesn't it?
01:58 Yes.
01:59 You sleep on your pillow for seven, eight hours a night,
02:01 I hope.
02:01 Yeah.
02:02 Right?
02:02 Is that true or not?
02:03 I try.
02:04 You try.
02:04 How many hours it is is still a fair amount.
02:06 And there's dirt.
02:07 There's oil.
02:08 There's bacteria from your face, your hands.
02:10 Your hair has stuff in it, from the environment, the house.
02:13 It all gets onto this beautiful pillowcase.
02:15 And then that dirt is transferred back
02:17 into your face, clogging up the pore,
02:19 like I just showed you in that animation.
02:21 So how often do you wash your pillowcase?
02:24 Maybe every other week.
02:26 Every other week.
02:27 Yes.
02:28 Can we do better than that, you think?
02:30 Most definitely.
02:31 All right.
02:31 So general recommendations are once a week for pillowcases.
02:34 OK.
02:35 But here's the double surprise.
02:37 The pillowcase is only part of the problem.
02:39 Pull that pillowcase off there, if you don't mind.
02:41 The other big problem is the actual pillow itself.
02:46 You see this?
02:47 Yes.
02:48 Real pillow, folks.
02:49 The pillow inside the case is also
02:51 breeding ground for dead stuff.
02:52 This is pretty thin.
02:53 Yes.
02:53 Pillowcase.
02:54 The stuff goes through there.
02:55 You sweat on a pillowcase, you're
02:56 sweating on the pillow itself.
02:57 Yes.
02:58 And all this junk breeds bacteria
02:59 and other kinds of contaminants.
03:01 So you actually have to wash your pillows themselves.
03:04 OK.
03:05 Same every other week?
03:06 No.
03:06 No.
03:07 We call the rounds.
03:08 Experts recommend you wash the pillowcase once a week,
03:12 but the pillows themselves every six months.
03:14 Oh, OK.
03:14 And it's simple to do.
03:15 Just wash them out, and it will help you a lot.
03:17 Yes.
03:18 I want everyone in America--
03:19 because most of you have not washed your pillows
03:21 in a long, long time.
03:22 If it's been at least six months,
03:23 which for everybody pretty much has,
03:25 you wash your pillows tonight.
03:26 You'll be a happy camper tomorrow.
03:28 Tonight.
03:28 OK.
03:29 I will do that.
03:29 Is that surprising, music, that you have adult acne?
03:32 It's also a cause for why you sleep.
03:34 Do you ever put moisturizer on your hands?
03:36 I do.
03:36 On my hands and my arms.
03:37 You have very soft skin.
03:39 Lotion.
03:40 The lotion, right?
03:41 Here, let me do a little extra.
03:42 I love hand cream.
03:43 Yes.
03:43 Go ahead and put some on.
03:44 Rub it in there good.
03:45 Now, when you go to sleep at night,
03:49 do you ever put your hand near your face?
03:51 Yes.
03:52 You do.
03:52 Show me how you sleep like this.
03:54 Like a little fairy.
03:55 Yes.
03:55 And I know it's not good, because then I
03:57 wake up with fingerprints.
03:58 But it's just-- it's wonderful.
04:00 Well, there are a couple of things
04:02 about your hands under your face.
04:04 But one of the problems is if you put hand cream on your hands
04:06 and then you rest it on your cheek, you're actually
04:08 putting something on your face that's
04:10 supposed to be on your hands.
04:11 It's not called-- if you don't know,
04:12 face cream is called hand cream for a reason.
04:14 They put different kinds of things in there.
04:15 So your solution is to find a moisturizer that's
04:17 called non-comedogenic.
04:19 Comedogenic means causing pimples.
04:21 So a non-pimple cream.
04:22 OK.
04:23 Anything that promotes acne has to be avoided.
04:24 I'm going to give you a list right now
04:26 of five things that are commonly found in products.
04:28 They're good for your hands.
04:29 They're not good for your face.
04:30 So coconut oil, don't want it on your face.
04:32 Algae extract, great for hands, not face.
04:34 Sodium chloride, that's salt, folks.
04:36 You don't want salt rubbing on your face.
04:38 Lauryl sulfate and isocetyl stearate.
04:40 These are chemical names.
04:42 They're on DrRoz.com.
04:44 You don't want them in your moisturizer
04:45 that you use late at night on your hands.
04:46 OK.
04:47 Next surprising reason you get adult acne
04:50 has to do with medications.
04:51 OK.
04:51 And some of them are not ones you'd expect.
04:53 So this is a side effect.
04:54 People don't want to give you acne with their medications.
04:57 If you have a sudden eruption that looks like this picture,
04:59 there's an image of somebody.
05:00 See that?
05:01 And it came on pretty quickly.
05:03 Two things to look for.
05:04 You look for a multivitamin that has iodine in it.
05:07 I take a multivitamin every day.
05:08 You do.
05:09 I want you to take the multivitamin.
05:10 OK.
05:10 But if you have iodine in it, that
05:12 can actually create those kinds of reactions.
05:14 OK.
05:14 And you can get iodine from having table salt that
05:17 has iodine in it.
05:18 OK.
05:18 So you don't have to get it from a vitamin.
05:20 OK.
05:20 So if you do happen to have that acne,
05:21 just try getting a multivitamin without iodine being added
05:23 to it.
05:24 And if your doctors put you on medications,
05:26 frankly, many can cause it.
05:27 But the most common ones are anabolic steroids--
05:29 Yes.
05:29 --that we use for many reasons.
05:31 Yeah.
05:31 That will really hurt you.
05:32 OK.
05:33 So you be thoughtful about that.
05:34 All right.
05:34 Thank you for being here.
05:35 I appreciate it.
05:35 Absolutely.
05:36 Thank you for having me.
05:37 Appreciate it.
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