What happens if you exfoliate your face while you have a lot of acne?

Exfoliating once a week is safe, but any more than that and you risk opening the acne and spreading the bacteria all over your face. Your acne will spread and if you continue to exfoliate, and rub off that skin that's trying to heal, you can end up with terrible acne and later on, terrible acne scars. Take cues from your skin, if you can feel dead flaking skin, exfoliate, if it feels a bit raw and sensitive, don't exfoliate! Your skin produces natural oils which protects and helps heal that acne you have now, but be careful or you will end up with permanent marks, gentle is always best. Try tea tree oil products!


-Good luck! Acne isn't fun, but it will get better!What happens if you exfoliate your face while you have a lot of acne?
When you exfoliate your face, you're removing the top layer (layers if you scrub too hard) of skin along with dead skin cells, dirt, and oil. Generally, it will help your acne, but it is sooo important to put a moisturizing cream on afterward. You should mix a bit of acne cream (benzoyl peroxide, salicylic acid, sulfur, triclosan, adapalene, etc...) in with something like Cetaphil on after you exfoliate, and you should only do it before you go to bed, then wash your face in the morning with a MILD cleanser, again, Cetaphil to the rescue...they have a moisturizing cleanser. You mustn't exfoliate too often (everyone has different skin; Still, 1-3 times per week max). If you've got insurance, get a referral to a dermatologist---if you can't help yourself within a month or so. Sulfur acne products, I believe, work the best. A few years ago, I asked my doctor to write me a compound Rx with: 5% benzoyl peroxide, 2% salicylic acid, 2% clindamycin, %26amp; 5% sulfur....most pharmacies offer compounding services, %26amp; that way, you can avoid spending so much money on all these different OTC meds by having them lumped into one Rx and paying a single co-pay. good luckWhat happens if you exfoliate your face while you have a lot of acne?
hi, ok if you have ALOT of acne using a exfoilater can be very bad for it.


becuase the grainy little beads in the wash are rubbing against your acne it can cuase scarring to your face and over dry it.





you should only exfoiliate once a week, and do it very gently. or use a gentle exfoilater. it is also bad for people WITHOUT acne to exfoiliate too much. i cant remember exactly why, but its got something to do with the top layer of your skin always having new weaker? cells.
With the word ';exfoliate'; this means to wash the skin off. Now, why wouldn't you want to wash the loose skin off and be clean.