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About Acne - What Can You Do to Cure or Alleviate Acne?

Acne gives the combination of symptoms about diet that may help prevent and cure
like greasy skin, white heads, black acne:- Do not consume a great amount of
heads, pimples, inflammation and scar fat.
formation. Acne mostly affects young - The fat you add to the food should be
people in the age 14 - 25, but also natural oils. Olive oil is ideal, but use
sometimes older persons, like women in other types of oils too, like walnut oil,
their menopause. Most teenagers sunflower oil and soy oil. However, do
experience outburst of acne, some only not use only soy oil as many tend to do.
little, but for others acne may develop Using only soy oil will give you too much
into a serious skin ailment with great of some fatty acids and too less of
cosmetic impact.THE SKIN ANATOMYTo others.
understand the acne process, some - Eat much fish, seafood and not so much
knowledge about skin anatomy and meat.
physiology is essential:The skin has - Eat food with a high fiber content to
there layers: The outer layer called regulate the digestion, like vegetables,
epidermis consists of epithelial cells. whole cereals, full corn bread and
Under this lies the dermis consisting of fruit.2. Here are some things you should
connective tissue. At the bottom there is avoid.- Do not use greasy or heavy
a layer called the hypodermis consisting cosmetics that clog your skin and are
mostly of fat cells.The skin has narrow difficult to wash away.
pores extending from the surface down to - Do not use strong irritating
the top of the sub-dermis, called hair antiperspirants.
follicles. A hair extend from a growth - Do not wash with strong soap or
zone in the bottom of each hair follicle cleaners that dry up your skin and take
and out at the skin surface. Around the away all the natural oily protection in
hair in the dermis, there are small your skin.
glands called sebaceous glands. These - If you perform body-building, do not
glands produce a fatty substance, sebum, use anabolic steroids or other hormonal
which empty through the follicle opening supplements.
and lubricates the hair and the skin.THE - Use clothes that allow air to reach
ACNE PROCESSAcne starts by the glands in your body surface to avoid collection of
the hair follicles increasing their sebum humidity and overheating of your skin.3.
production. This will in the beginning Use of rinsing milk or solutionsYou can
only cause greasy skin. Eventually the rinse your skin with mild products
sebum in the entrance of the follicles especially made to dissolve the plugs in
mixes with dead epithelial cells. This your pores, and to make the environment
mix reacts chemically to forms hard in your skin unfriendly to bacteria
props, comedones that close the pore causing infection. Some of these products
entrances. According to the color of the are just products to wash your skin with
comedones, they are called blackheads or one ore more times a day; others should
white heads.Then the closed hair follicle be on during night and flushed away in
gets filled with sebum and swell. The the morning.Salicylic acid is a mild
swollen follicle then gets infected by ingredient often used in these products
bacteria. The bacteria and the to dissolve the comedones. The products
accumulated sebum cause the follicle and usually also contain ingredients that
the surrounding skin to get inflamed, work antibacterial and stimulate the
forming a pimple. At last the inflamed skin's own cleaning activities, like Tea
follicle burst and empties its content. tree oil or Echinacea extract.4. Use of
Eventually the affected area heals. gels and creams to treat acne and protect
Sometimes the inflammation reaches deep your skinAfter the rinsing, you should
into the skin surrounding the follicle apply some treatment gel, cream or lotion
and destroys skin tissue. This will cause onto your skin to achieve these effects:-
more or less distinct scars that may To make your skin soft and elastic.
reside permanently. Typically an affected - To protect your skin against the
person will have follicles in all these environment.
stages of the process at any given - To acts further to dissolve the
time.THE CAUSES OF ACNEThe increased clogging of your pores.
hormone production in the puberty - To soothe and alleviate inflammation.
stimulate to increased sebum production. - To kill the bacteria causing infection
The male hormone, testosterone, seem to or make an environment hostile for the
contribute most. Also girls begin to bacteria.
produce more testosterone in the puberty. - To stimulate the skin to clean itself.
Also in other periods, altered hormone - To stimulate the skin to heal.
production may give acne, for example by - To be used as a isolating layer
women in the menopause.Since not all between the skin itself and cosmeticsIn
teens get acne in any degree, the order to protect, make the skin soft and
increased hormone level cannot be the further dissolve the comedones, many
whole cause of the increased sebum products contain natural plant oils that
production. The follicles of affected are easily absorbed into the epidermis,
persons must for some reason react like Tea tree oil, Rose hip oil, Lavender
stronger upon the higher hormone oil and Olive oil.Ingredients used in
level.Dietary factors, like eating too products to reduce inflammation and to
much fat, too much sugar or the wrong stimulate healing may be: Aloe Vera
kind of fat may aggravate acne by some extract, Viola Tricolour extract, Rose
individuals. Lack of vitamins, minerals hip oil, Vitamin E and Vitamin A.Tea tree
and essential fatty acids may also oil and Grapefruit seed extract are
contribute to development of acne.Poor natural antibacterial agents used in many
digestion, lazy colon and constipation of these products. In other products
aggravate acne in some individuals, artificial compounds like Benzoyl
probably due to productions of toxins in peroxide are used.5. Oral supplements to
the intestines. Lazy colon may be caused fight the acne process and nourish the
by dietary faults, like lack of skinSupplements taken by mouth to nourish
fiber.Very frequent washing and use of your skin may be useful. The purpose of
strong soaps aggravate acne, and does not these supplements is more or less the
alleviate the condition as many think. same as that of nourishing creams.- To
Rubbing, scrubbing or squeezing the skin make the sebum more fluid so it drains
may also aggravate acne.Here are some more easily.
other factors that may contribute in - To stimulate the substance exchange
causing acne or aggravating the and cleaning processes in your skin,
condition.- Stress - To stimulate your skin to heal,
- Some contraceptive agents - To give your skin building nutrients
- Environmental or domestic pollution. necessary to heal.Ingredients often used
- Humid environments. in these supplements to stimulate the
- Some antidepressants. cleaning and healing processes in the
- Testosterone and anabolic steroids skin are: Vitamins A, C, B1, B2, B3, B6,
used for treatment or by body-building. C, D, E, Folic acid, Beta carotene,
- Use of some types of greasy cosmetic Bioflavonoids, Magnesium, Copper, Zinc,
products. selenium, anti-oxidants from Green tea,
- Some antiperspirant products. Metylsulfonyl methane.Nutrient found in
- Exposing the skin for chlorine or these products used as material to
other halogens, or medicines containing rebuild damaged skin and to give a sebum
halogens. with better consistency are: Evening
- Women may get aggravated acne 2-7 days primrose oil, Olive oil, Flax seed oil,
before menstruation.WHAT CAN YOU DO Borage oil, Soy oil, Wheat germ oil and
YOURSELF TO AVOID OR TO TREAT Lecithin.Gum guggul extract used in oral
ACNESometimes Acne is so severe that products has an anti-biotic effect, and
special medical treatment is required, helps against spreading of the acne
and sometimes the causes of acne infection and thus helps against scar
necessitate medical treatment. But you formation.Knut Holt is an internet
can do much yourself also. Here are consultant and marketer focusing on
listed things you can do yourself to health items.
prevent or treat acne:1. Some advices




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