Acne And Make-Up: Care Or Conceal?
For a long time, I would be frustrated at the fact that no make up manufacturer thought about the plight of acne sufferers and there were no acne-friendly cosmetic brands available on the market. After a prolonged wait, and equally prolonged search, I have finally located a few (still only a few) brands that people with acne can use. Now I’m not sure whether I ought to turn this blog into an advertising platform, so I will perhaps not name the names here (you can go and find them on your own same as me) but be careful to use certain keywords: oil control, oil-free foundation, and water base.
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Baby Bumps: Acne During Pregnancy
Dorothea, a girl I’ve known since I was five and she was eight, was always the object of much envy among the girls owing to her flawless skin and milk and roses complexion. And then she had a baby. For the first two months of her pregnancy, Dottie had such an acute acne attack that she looked as though someone had painted red pustules on her face at random. She was 23 then, and though the horrible pustules disappeared gradually, once she had her baby, the scars did not. In fact, they gave me nightmares for a long time! No ok, that was an exaggeration, but the point is that even someone who has never had acne before can get it during pregnancy.
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Escape From Hell: Available Acne Treatments
If the headline seems a little dramatic, people with acne will know what I mean. We all know what causes acne – you know, blocked glands, clogged pores, excessive sebum secretion, overactive hormones, and improper skincare – but the trick is to find out which of the available acne treatments works for you.
Essentially, all acne treatments focus on dealing with the causes of acne. Obviously, what medication your dermatologist prescribes will depend on how severe your acne is, but it will also depend on its cause.
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Oh, The Strain! Does Stress Cause Acne?
Okay, once again, we have a missing-the-wood-for-the-trees situation, because recent medical research has proved that stress can aggravate acne. And that is definitely not the same as saying that stress causes acne. In the process of earning my doctorate on acne, I have learnt that Stanford University School of Medicine conducted a study in 2002 involving 20-odd students who suffered from acne.
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DOWN & DIRTY: Does Dirt Cause Acne?
“You know why Alex has acne? ‘Cos she only bathes once a month.” That and similar pearls of wisdom were generously distributed around my high school corridors, targeting a poor girl who truly had a horrific case of acne. That fact that she was rude to everyone in sight had, of course, nothing to do with it, and it is only now that I realise how terribly insecure she must have been to be so badly behaved.
The point is that dirt does not cause acne, but might aggravate it. As is so often the case with us, we miss the wood for the trees when we say dirt causes acne. You think dirt clogs the pores of the skin and gives rise to blackheads. You’re dead wrong. Blackheads are not caused by dirt, but by the melanin present in sebum that turns black in contact with open air.
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