Acne Treatment

The Stress Connection

As we have already showed, not surprisingly, stress has a starring role in the ongoing acne drama. “Ninety percent of my patients complain about what stress does to their skin. It has a huge impact, and it’s becoming a bigger problem every day,” says Katie Rodan, MD, a clinical professor of dermatology at Stanford [...]

Have You Known This? Skin Care

After all those advices and threats…, we’ve decided to make you smile! At least a little bit.
We’ve reached some analyzes and charts showing some numbers that should both amaze you and make you smile.
So, have you known that one square inch of your skin is home to:

• 65 hairs
• 100 sebaceous glands
• 78 yards [...]

Hormonal Acne: 2. Problematic Cycles

So, although it all started with puberty, for most of the young women acne remained somewhere in the past. They won’t be able to tell you when they stopped suffering from acne.
Thus, many women pass into adulthood without outgrowing their acne. Other may not develop this skin disease until their 20s and 30s, experiencing persistent [...]

Hormonal Acne: 1. How Did It All Started?

What could be the relation between love and acne? Between warm, touching feelings and an irritating skin disease? The grotesque, strange connection between these two different things is made by hormones!
Love and acne have the same root; they have both begun to talk through you starting with puberty. Those were the times, weren’t they?…
So, starting [...]

Tip No. 3: No Alcohol!

Don’t drink too much, or you’ll get drunk! Well, when it is about acne, alcohol is also an enemy, although your skin can’t get drunk.
Alcohol is still used in some cosmetic products and this is not a very good thing for your skin and for your acne. Fortunately, one could read on the products’ labels [...]

Back Acne II

Once again similar to face acne, back acne hasn’t been proved till present of being caused by a particular factor. It seems to appear when the sebaceous glands start increased functioning around puberty. The male hormones become active and the sebaceous glands are stimulated into producing the extra quantity of sebum. So, till here, that [...]

Acne Myth No. 8

Hormones Are Related to Acne – RIGHT
The fact the hormones have something to do with acne is not longer a myth, it’s reality. Acne is directly related to hormones, as these ones are some of the most sensitive and important elements from the human body, which influence or cause a lot of disorders and health [...]

Acne Myth No. 7

Dirt Is a Cause for Acne – WRONG
The fact that dirt or dust could cause acne is one of those grandma’s beliefs! As you will see, it’s nothing more than a common belief, or a groundless myth about this annoying skin disorder.
Common people have always believed only in what they could see, touch, taste etc. [...]

Acne Myth No. 3

Stress Is a Cause for Acne – COULD BE
You should know that the debate about whether stress does or does not cause acne still hasn’t ended. But first of all the first tip for a long life is a life without stress. That’s not a very helpful answer to the question whether stress causes acne, [...]