I recently had someone ask me what was behind their ear and I was polite (the truth is always polite, right?) enough to tell them it was a pimple. They looked at me and said, “I didn’t know you could get pimples behind your ear.”

It was a young person. Inexperienced with matters of the skin.

All of us have dealt with skin issues at one point or another and that person was just the latest addition to the club. I was a big fan of cleaning my face with alcohol for awhile there and even tried getting my face sprayed with some kind of really cold gas that I’ve forgotten the name of. I don’t remember it doing much good. In fact the alcohol tended to dry my skin out alot.

Going for a more natural acne treatment might be a better option. At least if it’s natural your less likely to have you skin become dependent upon it just to work and then you can stop using it someday without your skin over reacting to the dryness and over producing oil like mine did when I stopped rubbing alcohol exposure.

The time honored tradition of losing weight through diet and exercise has been a winner since time immortal. Of course now a days we have a wide variety of diet pills to choose from to hopefully help us in the battle of the bulge. I think one of them has even been approved by the FDA. You could also choose to cut out your carbs go on something called the South Beach Diet (presumably you eat sand instead of food).

I think I’ll give the natural approach a try. If that doesn’t work then I’ll talk to my doctor about more drastic measures.