What's the use of spending precious time and energy on your *CTM ritual if all you're going to do is contaminate your facial-skin with a dirty hand towel? Most of us do not think much about how we DRY our face after washing, it seems irrelevant right? WRONG! Drying your face with a bacteria-free cloth or cotton is probably one of the most important steps in achieving healthy skin.
Healthy skin means bacteria-free skin and oxygenated skin. Acne occurs when bacteria gets trapped within the hair follicle, preventing oxygen from penetrating. Acne products are made to specifically infuse the follicle with oxygen which will, in turn, kill the acne. So, be proactive and prevent the bacteria from lurking into those follicles in the first place!
Even after just one use, a hand towel can harbor bacteria! Did you know that a typical bathroom hand-towel can house MILLIONS of potentially disease-causing microbes? Bacteria such as E. coli and salmonella can set-up camp in your moist towels and multiply into the millions. If you use your hand or bath towel on your face, you're simply redistributing that bacteria onto your beautifully clean CTM'd skin! The simple and inexpensive act of using a tissue to blot your face dry, upon washing, can work wonders for acne prevention. If you must use a towel, use a freshly-laundered, bleach-washed towel each time you dry your face.......that's twice per day folks.
I prefer to use a store-named generic version, rather than a name-brand tissue. The generic brands are less fibrous resulting in minimal fiber-deposits onto your wet skin. But make sure that you BLOT, rather than wipe, your skin dry. Although tissues are soft, then can scratch that delicate facial skin, so blot blot BLOT your way to clean, healthy skin :)
* see my blog on Skin-Care 101
--Ciao for now xo
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