What causes acne?
Every single speck of acne can be traced back to a complication of the pilosebaceous unit, simple enough, right? A pilosebaceous unit is a combination of a hair follicle, sebum, and an actual hair. There isn’t much that you can do about your hair follicle’s and your hairs, but sebum is a little easier to “experiment” with.
Sebum is produced by sebaceous glands. At the start of puberty, sebum production rises to help fuel the devlopment of someone from a child to an adult. Sebum production begins to rise substancially in a child’s pre-teens and begins to fall in a person’s early twenties, which coincides with most people’s most troubled years with acne. Sebum is basically the oil in your face.
What you can do about it:
Natural, cheap/free treatment: Live a healthy clean lifestyle. Obviously washing your face at least twice a day will cut down on the oil on your face, which is what you want to do, but you may be surprised to hear that eating healthy can also help. Eating a high fat diet increases the amount of sebum in your skin, eating a well balanced diet and drinking lots of water will do wonders for your face, and it will be free!
Another option is prescription Accutane. Accutane helps treat sebum levels and uses Isotrentinoin as its main ingredient. It has helped a lot of people! Talk to your dermatologist about Accutane the next time you speak with him or her if you are interested and click on the link above if you want to learn more about Isotrentinoin.
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