It is better that you make it natural so as to let the skin breathe. 4. Minimize scratching or even touching your face. Remember that sensitive skin tend to pick up dirt and grime easily and react to it. Prevent irritation by minimizing contact with your skin. This is especially true with your face as this is the most sensitive skin area on the body. Besides the almond eyes or doe eyes that most women salivate for; the luscious lips or the patrician nose, one should have flawless skin. This however is easier said than done. Although there are people who are gifted with the perfect skin, there are some, the majority in fact, who have to struggle everyday just to take care of their skin. In fact, good skin care habits are not the only ones affected by their overall health as well. Because of busy schedule, many people resort to alternatives means of skin care well in fact, all they could do to maintain healthy skin is to eat well. Experts say that eating healthy foods is one of the major keys in combating unhealthy skin caused by toxicity that modern life brings. Drinking enough water daily helps aid skin hydration and healthy cell formation. Aside from maintaining the skin's water balance, drinking water also helps in the removal of waste products in the body. 4. Eat well. One of the surefire means to proper skin care is balance your nutrition because the foods people eat affect greatly their overall health. For healthy skin, experts agree that people should load up on blueberries, cranberries, raspberries, strawberries, cherries, currants, purple grapes, pumpkin, carrots, butternut squash, and sweet potatoes because these are rich in antioxidants that protect cell damage. Skin experts say that major antioxidants such as vitamin A, C, and E can indeed help decrease damage brought by the harmful rays of the sun. Parents, and teenagers as well, must be aware that adolescents should only be using gentle cleansers on their skin, for which the best choices are those made of natural or water based cleansers and cream-based cleansers that not only cleans but moisturizes skin as well. Face cleansing should ideally be done once a day, as mentioned earlier, unless your teens are active in after school sport or outdoor activities, where intense sweating or exposure to dust and grime are part of the activity.