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Suffering from acne naturally motivates people to get to know and to better understand this particular skin affection, which, left untreated, can get worse.
So it would be normal for us to start the basic documentation from the origins of the problem, which lies way deep in our skin layers, since we cannot know how acne works,
without knowing how skin works .
We should be talking about sebaceous glands, the tinny soldiers to whom we own the health of our skin. Did you know that we can spend days without drinking water at all and
still our skin would keep a certain humidity level, especially because of these glands? If we would not had them, we could have gotten into more serious problems than pimples,
simply because outside intruders could have attacked us and entered into the organism more easily.
Nevertheless, this extremely important part of our body functionality, spread all over the skin excepting our soles and palms, without whom we couldn't have lived,
ironically can sometimes make us want to die.
So what is it with them that make us so many problems every now and then? To begin with, there are millions of sebaceous glands inside our skin layers. Most of them are
placed in pairs at the root of every single hair that breaks out our skin, but we also have sebaceous glands on other non – haired areas. The scalp, which is entirely
covered with hair, and the face, constantly exposed to various and dangerous environmental factors, are the best equipped from this point of view, while our soles and
palms have no such glands at all.
Their purpose is to produce sebum, an oily wax - like substance predominantly made from fats, which is supposed to cover our entire skin and protect it. It is important to
know that this skin oil has no smell whatsoever, but if you get the sense that it does, it can be more than your imagination: bacterial breakdowns are the ones who produce
odors, so you might be having a problem that needs to be checked up.
The thing is that sebaceous glands happen to have their activity disrupted by various factors, from genetics to what we
eat , so most people are not lucky enough so that to have a perfect skin, without blackheads, whiteheads or even pimples.
In fact, acne, comedones, sebaceous cysts, seborrhea or carcinoma are some common affections related to sebaceous glands’ dysfunctions.
Some of them are most often caused by a hyperactivity of these glands, which start producing sebum in excess. All that oil cannot be properly disposed so it inevitably starts
clogging the pores . Hormonal imbalances are most likely to make these glands go crazy, therefore acne and other
disorders caused by an oily skin generally occur to teenagers and youngsters, approximately until they turn 20. Nevertheless, adults may also have such difficulties and even
women at menopause, but adult acne is differently treated and most often requires medical help, depending on its severity.
Bottom line, every time our skin is causing us problems, these little sebaceous glands are either not doing their work, or they are too enthusiasts.
The real problem would be, however, to correctly identify the cause of their reaction.
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