If you’re wondering what brought this post to mind, it’s because I’m sitting her at my computer, exhausted, after a long day in a close to ninety degree day in the hot sun, working my you know what off in my gardens and also helping my hubby with the lawn and yard care. I dug holes, plants shrubs, got down and dirty digging rocks out of the ground, spread mulch, spread heavy topsoil, and pushed a heavy mower back and forth. It’s safe to say that I’m pretty pooped, and yes it’s safe to say that I also got extremely sweaty. I wear sunglasses when I’m working outdoors to protect my eyes, and the sweat was just rolling down my face, into my eyes even multiple times, so I had to take off my sunglasses just to wipe away the profuse sweat intermittently. It stung my eyes very badly. Not only that, it stung my face as well. I noticed when I came back in from the outside, the sweat had made a lot of dirt and dust stick to my face that would not have otherwise stuck there (we had a lot of dust swirling around since he was weed whacking too). When your face is profusely sweating like this, it can definitely make an acne breakout more likely, especially the longer you let the sweat, dirt and grime that it attracted sit on your face for too long. You have to wash it off immediately once you get inside, so that you don’t risk some of that sticky debris getting in your pores, infecting them, and getting a big ol’ whitehead. That’s exactly what I did. I came in and got my shower pronto, didn’t even sit down to relax for a moment because I knew that the shower would energize me as well as cleanse my skin. Not only can sweat make things stick to your face more readily, but it can also irritate any open acne lesions on your face because of the high salt content it has. Of course, it also reddens your skin because it has irritants like salt and possibly toxins in it too, so it’s important to get that stuff off with gentle soap and water asap.

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