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" Q: Should you take a break from wearing makeup to let your skin breathe? Oz Says: If you need a few days or a week without makeup to clear up your complexion, it&amp;#039;s not because your skin needs to &amp;quot;breathe.&amp;quot; (Skin doesn&amp;#039;t actually do that.) It&amp;#039;s because you&amp;#039;re using the wrong makeup or you&amp;#039;re not washing your face every night\u2014or both, says dermatologist Jeannette Graf, M.D., of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. Breakouts might mean it&amp;#039;s time to change makeup brands or formulas. Look for products marked &amp;quot;noncomedogenic,&amp;quot; which typically don&amp;#039;t contain pore-clogging ingredients, or a foundation with acne-fighting salicylic acid. No matter what you use, a nightly wash is nonnegotiable. &amp;quot;Your skin sheds old cells overnight, and extra product can interfere with this, promoting pimples, accelerating aging, and dulling your complexion,&amp;quot; Graf says. So you can wear makeup every day; just cleanse to remove it at night. That&amp;#039;s what your skin really needs to do its housekeeping. This story originally appeared in the June 2015 issue of Dr. Oz The Good Life. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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