After hitching into the hype about skin care products, now is the time to bend your view about skin care a little bit, and getting a few suggestions on natural skin care is a good way to jumpstart. 1. Watch your diet. Remember the adage, You are what you eat? This speaks volume about skin care. Keep in mind that a good and healthy diet translates to an equally healthy skin. If you want to have a more natural treatment for pimples, try to use honey, since it has antibacterial properties that make it an effective yet gentle natural treatment for acne. If the acne remains to be a perennial problem, honey can be used as a weekly face mask to treat or minimize pimples or acne. Windy, cold, and dry weathers can strip off the body s natural moisture and inflict negative effects on the skin. Another is age. As a person grows older, his ability to produce and retain moisture weakens. Excessive sun exposure, use of harsh skin care products, and genetics are also possible reasons for having dry skin. The industry has become so big that cosmetic and skin care lines that only catered to women have started to also develop skin care products for men. There are now astringents and lotions for men. Some companies have even developed facial wash for men, a skin care staple that men would not have bought a decade ago. What you can do is list down all the foods including the drinks that you have taken in for one day and make an assessment after that day. In this way, you can track down which are the foods and drinks you have taken affect your daily skin habits. The following are just some of the list of foods that might lead one to ugly skin: 1. But then, due to lack of knowledge and information, more and more people are misled to use products and avail of treatments without consulting a dermatologist or a physician resulting to a more devastating situation. To avoid mistakes in choosing skin care products and treatments, it is very important to have the knowledge about general causes of skin problems its types, the age of the patient, current status or condition so you know what are the products appropriate for each kind.