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[Routine Help] - Does sweating out your face every night help minimize pore-based acne?
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Skin type: white, easily prone to ruddiness and slight swelling, fragile, slightly oily

Current routine: Two showers a day where lukewarm water gets rinsed over the face (night and morning), followed by a shave with very hot water and then a rinse off with lukewarm water (morning only). Night shower is followed by precision application of Benzoyl Peroxide 5% cream to trouble zones (no widespread application over large swathes)

Location: North African atlantic coast (very humid but also very sunny)


I recently started taking baths during my night-time shower to keep warm (it's really cold these days in winter where I live and there's no insulation inside the apartment). I noticed that once my body temperature got up a bit, I would start sweating like crazy from my face. I'm talking huge beads of sweat dripping down from all over my face.

This got me thinking: since most of my acne is pore-based acne (I recently got rid of dry-skin-based acne by switching from scalding hot face wash to lukewarm face wash during my showers), would a regular, every-night seat-out session of 20 minute or so help rinse out the pores and minimze the chance that something gets clogged in there? Or, on the other hand, would encouraging sweating from my face encourage acne and clogged pores, since more "traffic" is moving through them, increasing the risk?

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