Allergy & Acne-free Clothes

Problem:  Laundry detergents and fabric softeners can leave harmful residues that can irritate your sensitive skin, cause a severe case of contact dermatitis, and/or exacerbate an acne or eczema condition.

What to look for:  Acne and/or dermatitis on one side of your face and neck where you sleep, along the seams of your clothes, including under [...]

Staying Clear

A Guide to Lifestyle Issues That Affect the Skin

Updated 2009 Version by Kathryn Khadija Leverette

Reduce your stress. Do whatever it takes. Stress, the Number One acne aggravator, is caused by the wear and tear of day-to-day living and changes that take place in your life, both good and bad. Moving is comparable to the death [...]

Acne: Treatment Techniques

Acne Homecare and Lifestyle Changes

A daily system of antibacterial and exfoliating homecare is needed to treat acne. True control means no physical sign of the disease shows in its active stage. Since acne is a treatable disease with no cure, the adult acne sufferer will be tied to an acne-fighting regimen for life, whether or [...]

Acne

Acne Keloiditis
Those Painful, Scarring “Back-of-the-Neck” and Scalp Bumps

by Kathryn Khadija Leverette
Occurring in the occipital scalp area, the back of the neck, and in some cases, the entire scalp, acne keloiditis (inflamed and pustular) and acne keloidalis (inflamed and scarred), usually appear spontaneously after black men get their hair cut close to the scalp using unsanitized [...]