Overactive sebaceous glands can give you coarse pores, blackheads, blemishes and a greasy appearance. So how do people wind up with this type of oily skin? Many reasons --for example--heredity, hot sticky weather, fluctuating hormones, birth control pills, skin care products, cosmetics, dehydration, nutritional deficiencies and for sure, just plain bad diet.

Yes it is true that all of you know someone who does all the wrong things, eats all the bad stuff and looks great. However, that is the exception not the rule. And if you do really have the skin problem oily skin, I have some recommendations.

Keep your skin clean--not over clean. Harsh soaps and harsh products will just irritate oily skin and cause the opposite reaction that you were looking for. Yes over cleansing will trigger more oil production because your skin will be trying to replenish the natural oils. If you dry up the outer layers of skin your pores will become clogged and worse yet flaky with blemishes. DON'T WORK YOUR SKIN-WORK WITH IT! Stay clear of creams and astringents. A mild mineral rich clay mask once or twice a week can be soothing but used more than that-- troublesome.

Another keep is KEEP YOUR HANDS AWAY FROM YOUR FACE! Poking, picking and prodding are only going to spread trouble and bacteria.

Oily skin doesn't need oil based cosmetics and products. Whatever products you use if you are sticking your fingers in it you are transferring organisms that can grow and cause infection especially on oily skin. We at LeverageFor_ use spray bottles so stuff can't get in. In addition if your products are old---throw them out--- unlike wine they do not get better with age.

Remember whatever you use in your hair is going to wind up on your face so be sure that your hair products aren't causing oily reactive skin.

Now really important stuff: Please Drink Water. Your body cannot function without proper hydration. All of your cells need fluid to transport nutrients and eliminate waste. Speaking of elimination, if you are not having at least two bowel movements a day you are constipated. Proper elimination is necessarily to correct over oily skin.

A good diet is so important that I want to do a complete article on just that. For now let me just say that for oily skin B vitamins and Omega 3 fatty acids will truly help you to correct your oily skin problem.

OK here is the good news for those of you with oily skin--like my father your skin will age better and if treated with care might be a blessing latter on. In truth we all have something that we want to change for the better and we here at LeverageFor_ offer a skin care spray, "Firmer View" that will make that difference--for the better--for oily problem skin. How? Firmer View sooths skin irritation that leads to reactive oil production and inflammation. This skin spray used two or more times a day will help keep bacteria out and keep your skin's natural moisture in. Be confident that you can make simple informed changes in your skin care habits that will provide you with good skin for the all the years to come.