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