Is your shower routine giving you acne?

Obviously, we shower to keep our skin blemish-free. But what if your bath time ritual was actually causing breakouts?

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It turns out that certain bad habits in the shower can contribute to acne—or backne, or buttne—in ways that you'd never expect. Ironic, right?

Don't worry, I'm not going to tell you to stop showering. (Although this writer did, and it was surprisingly not terrible.)

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Instead, I tapped a couple of dermatologists to pinpoint exactly where this paradoxical and seriously annoying dilemma comes from—plus how to avoid it. And the causes may surprise you.

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Scroll through to learn about 6 ways your shower habits could be causing your breakouts:

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