If you have oily skin, you know the struggle that comes with it. Frequent acne breakouts and sticky greasy skin are just a few to name. So, when you feel your skin getting oily or acne sprouting on your face, your whole focus shifts to removing oil from your skin, and for that, you literally would do anything, for instance, using a drying facewash multiple times a day.

And you would agree with me.

But you would have noticed that your skin becomes greasy only after a few minutes of washing your face. Isn’t that true? If you really want your skin to be healthy and have a natural glow, then, throw away the blanket of myths about oily skin and understand why your skin produces so much oil/sebum in the first place.

Allow me to help you understand your oily skin a little better.

First of all, there can be many reasons behind having oily skin, such as genetics, stress, humid weather, etc. Though, we can can’t control any of it, we can certainly take care of our skin and keep oil production in check.

Oily skin produces excess oil to replenish the lost moisture in your skin.

Now, read that above line once again (loudly). Oily skin produces oil to replenish the lost moisture in your skin and not the oil. So, whenever your skin feels that it lacks moisture, it starts producing more oil to maintain the moisture level of your skin. This means, all the skin-drying products that you love using so much are actually prompting your skin to produce more oil.

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