What Are The Causes Of Acne, And What Can You Do To Prevent It!

Acne Fact: Anyone can get acne. Over 85% of all people 12-24 have acne, but it can also reoccur or even start as late as your 30s. It's estimated that one in four adults between the ages of 25 to 44 experiences acne in a cycle that lasts an average of 20 years!

Acne Tip: Don't be afraid to seek out treatment, whatever your age. There is no cure for acne, so living with acne is about controlling it with full face, daily use of medicines that are powerful enough to kill acne bacteria but gentle enough to use everyday.

Your skin is in a continuous cell renewal. As old cells die, they mixed with the skin natural oil and are extracted from your skin through the pores. Acne is formed when dead cells don't shed off properly, and the cells become sticky. This sticky cell when mix with the skin oil forms a plug in the hair follicle (the area deep in the pore).

That plug holds the oil and bacteria in the follicle and begins to swell as your skin produces more oil. The result of this is a red bump called a pimple and it can become none-inflammatory acne which is called mild acne to inflammatory acne which is called moderate to severe acne, and is most of the time painful.

Once the inflammatory pimple heals it leave a brown color blemish that leaves your skin with very unattractive dark spots which take weeks to months to disappear completely, and are very hard to hide even with makeup.

Once acne is out of control the damages it leaves on your skin can be irreparable. The best way to control acne is prevention, so not only you will control your acne before it forms, but won't have to pay the high price of scares left on your skins.

Oral medication for acne is the strongest acne relief you can get, and most time than not makes a dramatic difference on your skin. However, it may have severe side effects. Some oral treatments are known to attack the liver and caused birth defect if taken during pregnancy.

Another side effect with oral acne medicine is that you have to stay completely away from the sun while taking them (which most likely will be years). The side effects are dark stains area on your skin, similar to aging stains.

Note: In some cases, the dermatologist has not informed the patient about the side effects of oral medicine for acne. The results have proved devastating with marks and brown stains that will most likely never go away.

The best prevention for acne is external treatment. There are excellent treatments out there that will not only heal your old acne to start with, but act as prevention for recurring acne, and repair the damages done by your old acne.

It will even heal the dark spots, and since you won't be getting any new pimples, your skin will look completely clear and you won't suffer from any of the side effects caused by medication. You will be as good as if you had never suffered from acne.

"I remember calling my Mom and crying to her on the phone and she said, 'Patrina, I ordered Proactiv for you.' And I said, 'The stuff that Judith Light uses?' And she said 'Yes.' She said, 'Why don't you try it? Just try it.' And within three weeks, I didn't have another pimple. If it could help me, and my skin was that severe, and I've had acne for so long, it could help anybody. And I'm not just saying this. I mean, I really tried everything and Proactiv is the only thing that's worked. And I will never ever%u2026for the rest of my life I'll use Proactiv."

Patrina Gunsolley, 38

Today most cosmetics are not pore-clogging, but some will favor acne more than others.

If you suffer from acne you definitely need to use oil-free products. Many are water-based instead of oil-based, and those are the onces you should go for.

If you are using a good oil-free foundation they is no reason why your make-up should increase your acne, on the contrary some foundations will have the tendency to dry up your skin a bit and, therefore, help your oily skin.

"I would look in the mirror and I would just see the pimples. It was more the black spots, because every time I would get a blemish on my face, it would leave a scar. And so my problem was keeping the blemishes away so the scars wouldn't come. When I started using Proactiv, that's when I noticed a change in my skin complexion. When I first saw the infomercials I really kind of had my doubts, about if it would work for African Americans, if it would really clear up the spots, which is what my problem basically was. And so that was my main concern, would this Proactiv skin care program actually clear up the spots that were on my face, because that was the thing that I saw every day. Right after I washed my face I could feel how clean it was. I could tell that my face had never been this clean before it took a little bit of time for the spots to go, but I realized that when I was consistent with it, that they did fade and nothing else I had used ever made them fade away. I've been using it for about a year and a half now. The main reason why I still continue to use it is because I like the way it cleans my face. It keeps my face clean and I like how it's helping prevent more breakouts and pretty much Proactiv is the only thing that's worked on my face. So I figure I've found something that works. Why stop? And any African American out there who thinks this might not work, I can tell you that it does. It really does..."

Melissa Johnson, 20