If you are anything like us, you probably keep your skin care professional on speed dial. They have most likely helped you with your everyday skin maintenance as well as made you look stunning for a special event or two. You consider them a friend as you’ve bonded over collagen and the matrix of skin. But guess what? There a few things they really, really wish you would stop doing. However, they value your relationship so they don’t tell you.

That’s okay. We will!

12 Things Your Skin Care Professional Wishes You Would Stop Doing:

1. Stop washing your face with bar soap.
Seriously? You’re a grown up now, didn’t you learn bar soap was too harsh for your skin when you were a teenager?

2. Quit telling them you don’t lay in a tanning bed.
It’s January and you are a golden shade of brown. And they know you haven’t been to the beach.

3. Don’t lie to them about what you are using on your face.
If you aren’t honest, they may use a product or do a procedure that could cause a reaction.

4. Please quit saying your skin is fine after using apricot seed scrub.
It’s not. Abrasive scrubs that use ground apricot seeds (or other seeds) cause microtears and can cause a lot of problems. {Use this instead.}

5. Stop calling your sun damage age spots.
Age spots may make you feel better, but they are nothing more than sun damage.

6. Don’t tell them you don’t need sunscreen because you aren’t laying by the pool.
Damaging UVA rays are present from sunrise to sunset, 365 days per year. Even if you aren’t laying by the pool.

7. Please stop using alcohol to dry up your breakouts.
You are just making them worse.

8. Stop asking them advice then try to discount it with “something you read on the internet.”
There really isn’t much more to say here.

9. Stop telling them you exfoliate regularly.
Kind of like the dentist knows you aren’t flossing every day, they know you aren’t exfoliating.

10. Stop telling them you aren’t over-exfoliating.
They know that stuff too.

11.Please don’t pick at your face.
Do you really think that oozing scab looks better?

12. Not knowing what you are willing to pay for them to “fix” your face.
As far as appearance goes, your face is the most important thing. Don’t tell your skin professional “you’ll do whatever it takes,” then balk at the advice they give.

We hope this helps make your relationship with your skin care professional, even better!

If you are looking for quality skin care that has been trust by physcians for more than 20 years, Theraderm Clinical Skin Care is just what you need!