1. Water, Water Everywhere: Take a shower immediately after exercising or sweating heavily.  Don’t wear sweaty clothes any longer than necessary.
2. Smooth a Craggy Exterior: Exfoliate your skin with a loofah or MenScience’s micromesh Body Buff Gloves when you shower to remove dead skin cells.
3. Attack of the Lizard-Skinned Men! Typical soaps can dry out your skin, resulting in overproduction of oil and acne breakouts. Wash irritated or acne prone skin with a deep cleanser like the Daily Body Wash that combines salicylic, glycolic and beta hydroxy acids with moisturizing and soothing ingredients like Urea, Allantoin and Aloe Vera.
4. Are Polka-Dots Back in Style? Benzyl peroxide works great as a topical solution for drying up annoying back acne blemishes. But make sure it dries completely before you put on a shirt to avoid stains on clothes.
5. The Touch, the Feel of…Polyester? Light cotton and cotton blends are good exercise clothes since they are breathable and allow oxygen to interact with the skin. But if you sweat a lot, cotton can trap sweat and clog pores on your back, resulting in back acne. Try wearing synthetic fabrics with  mesh-like weaves to pull sweat from your skin’s surface. And remember to keep it loose: the point is for air to be able to get to your pores to prevent back acne breakouts.
6. Get a Haircut, Hippie: Long, sweaty hair can aggravate or cause back acne if it hangs on or brushes your skin a lot. Consider getting a trim, or at least finding a way to pull it off your back when exercising.
7. Make like a Vampire: Sunlight seems to clear back acne up, but the sun’s rays can also damage skin and darken scars and marks permanently. Cover up as much as you can when outdoors and slap on some sunscreen when you go shirt-less. Try a non-greasy sunscreen of SPF 15 or higher, like TiO2 Sunblock from MenScience, to stay protected without clogging pores or causing back acne.
8. Maintain Your Gear, Maintain Your Skin: Make sure helmets, backpacks, and other protective exercise gear fit you. Constant rubbing from loose articles can cause skin irritations.
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