What's Your Number-One Skin Sin?

Allure Daily Beauty Reporter

By Kate Sullivan,Allure magazine

I just touched my ancient computer mouse, my phone, and my face-in that order. I know I touch my face too much. Way more often than someone on multiple adult acne prescriptions should. Maybe I need to get hypnotized to stop-or have a swear-jar-esque collection plate on my desk so I have to pay up every time my index finger strays to the small blemish just south of my chin.

In Allure's May story, "The 7 Biggest Skin Sins" by Theresa O'Rourke, dermatologist Jeannette Graf says adults with acne "overwash, they overtreat, and they overtouch." Guilty as charged.

Graf may not be able to hypnotize me out of touching my face, but in the article, she and other dermatologists offers helpful tips for controlling adult acne, like switching to a gentler benzoyl peroxide solution such as Neutrogena On-the-Spot Acne Treatment, and following our evening retinols with a mild moisturizer like CeraVe PM. "It contains niacinamide, which helps reduce sebum and redness while it hydrates," she says.

For more on info on preventing skin mistakes-like using skin-care products out of order and skimping on sunscreen in unexpected places (your ears! your hairline!)-check out "The 7 Biggest Skin Sins." And tell us, what's the bad skin habit you're struggling to break?

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