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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.
05:37 We'll be right back.
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