Where Does Acne Come From?

by Heidi J. Benz on April 14, 2010

If you remember high school, or maybe junior high school, I’m sure you can come up with plenty of fond memories. There is one thing, however that almost none of us will remember with fondness, and nearly everybody has to suffer from at one point in there life. And that is the problem, or the condition, of acne.

So where precisely does acne come from? In your skin, there are these things called pilosebaceous units, which are like petite self contained apparatus that grow hair, and normalize your skin moisture. If, for whatever basis, something goes haywire inside this little machine, of which you have millions, you can get a pimple.

The pilosebaceous unit contains a few components. The first is called the hair follicle, and is where the hair on your skin grows. The hair follicles don’t repeatedly have hair growing in each one, but they’re still there. Think of the hair follicle as where the core of your hair goes into your skin. Kind of like a pipe, or a especially tiny well.

Now, off to the sides of this tunnel, or well, are some glands, called sebaceous glands which create a kind of grease, called sebum. The principle of sebum is to keep your skin from drying and cracking. This is needed, because if your skin dried and cracked, you start bleeding, and you may get infected, and all kinds of other troubles would transpire to you. The glands create the oil, which fills out onto your skin. The hair follicle, and the hair, share the identical tiny shaft as the sebaceous gland. When everything is functioning like it should, then there’s no hitch.

The evils happen when the crown of the hair follicle becomes cut off for some reason. Believe it or not, there isn’t a apparent reason for this, according to medical science. But when the apex becomes plugged, the sebum is still being formed, and it has nowhere to go. So the pressure gets higher and higher, and a pimple is formed. One theory is that during puberty, the sebaceous glands manufacture much more oil than average, which is why we get the majority of this acne during this time. It also explains why we can have exceedingly oily skin throughout puberty.

There have been several factors which have been recognized as possible causes for the hole getting plugged up. Youth, diet, and anxiety. and of course, dirty skin, are thought to be the four most regular. Most over the counter cures for acne only address the surface circumstances of the skin, and not the underlying reasons behind the cause. Only when you know the original reasons can you sufficiently get rid of your acne for good.

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