Janice Unruh Davidson, PhD, RN-BC, FNP-BC, NEA-BC, CNE, FAANP, a graduate professor at Chamberlain College of Nursing, is to be inducted as a fellow into the National League for Nursing's (NLN) Academy of Nursing Education on Sept.
1 If you scrub too roughly, you'll deplete your skin's natural oils, and you'll irritate your acne. 2  Always scrub your chest gently to get rid of dead skin cells. 3  Take a shower every day. 4  If you don't clean your skin, you invite sebum and bacteria to collect on its surface, causing acne. Soaps containing these ingredients serve as shedding agents, which will help to curb acne. 2  If you scrub too roughly, you'll deplete your skin's natural oils, and you'll irritate your acne. 3  Always scrub your chest gently to get rid of dead skin cells.
Some people have found that dabbing a small amount of toothpaste on an inflamed blemish can reduce the redness and accelerate the healing of the pimple. However, toothpaste does not get rid of acne scars, and has no positive effect on acne scars due to the fact these scars are the after-effects of an inflamed blemish. Though dabbing toothpaste on the blemish will help it heal, an old acne scar is too deep into the skin for the toothpaste to have any effect on it.