Although there is no cure for rosacea, skin care and proper treatment can help your skin look and feel better. Common suggestions include using sunscreen, using a mild moisturizer, and using lukewarm, not hot, water to wash your face. In addition, as part of your rosacea skin care, you may want to keep a notebook of triggers that seem to make your skin worse and cause flare-ups.
A large part of treatment for rosacea involves self-care. Here are a few rosacea skin care suggestions:
Know your rosacea triggers and avoid them as much as possible. Keep a written record of when flare-ups occur. This can give you clues about what bothers your skin.
Use a sunscreen every day that protects against UVA and UVB rays. Make sure that it has a sun-protecting factor (SPF) of 15 or higher.
Use a mild moisturizer, if it helps, and don't put irritating products on the face. Make-up, moisturizers, sunscreens, or other skin products used on the face that contain alcohol or other irritating ingredients can cause flare-ups in some people with rosacea.
Use gentle skin cleaning and avoid rubbing, tugging, scratching, or scrubbing your face. Blot dry instead.
Use a small amount of soap or cleanser to wash your face and your fingertips to gently apply the soap or cleanser.
Use lukewarm, not hot water, to wash your face and a thick pile towel to blot dry.
Let your skin rest for 10 minutes before applying topical medication and another 10 minutes before applying make-up or other rosacea skin care products.
Some people find that green-tinted makeup effectively conceals skin redness.
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