Many people
who are in search for acne treatments that work also would like to find out
what causes pimples in the first place. The short answer to that question is
that the pores on your skin, actually only some of them, get blocked.
They get
shut by the cells that are dead and no longer in function. Once they are
blocked they become inflamed and start growing and become red.
People used
to think that bad hygiene causes pimples. And although it may appear so still
to some, quite opposite is true. If you wash your sensitive parts of the skin
too often it may irritate it, and that might become what causes pimples for
you. Basically what you do is, you're expanding the infection when you touch
a pimple or an area of affected skin,
and you're carrying over to the other area that is not affected, or carrying it
to the another area that is, but now it only gets even more bacteria. Problem
is, itching and burning skin is sometimes hard not to touch, cause you get and
urge to scratch it or just touch it for some weird reflex reason.
Dead skin
cells most usually clog the pore. When the pore gets lined with the dead cells
it's what causes pimples. The dead cells are falling off, they do this all this
time throughout the day, and they should go to the surface. Glands that produce
sebum are within the pores. This is also where glands that produce sweat, and
follicles out of which the hair grows are. When they get swollen they plug the
pore as well. This is what causes pimples.
During the
puberty skin will become thicker. More cells are produced, more cells die and
it's easier that the pores get plugged and that this is what will cause you to
have pimples. When a pore is blocked, sebum cannot travel normally, and it gets
mixed with natural bacteria that is there in the skin by default. A more or
lesser infection occurs and you get acne.
Most often,
pimples are cause by the condition called acne. Most often acne (acne vulgaris)
occurs in puberty. Most of the teens experience acne. It is only the question
of how severe they are.
More sever
type of acne, called cystic acne the could be bolis or cysts. They are caused
by the sweat that gets inside the hair follicles. So, this is basically what
causes pimples and back acne.
It's also
good to know what can cause or contribute to development of the acne itself.
Primarily
acne are cause by the hormones that "rage" during the puberty.
Sebaceous glands become larger than the usual, and more sebum is produced. What
also grows in size are the hair follicles.
You get
stress from acne if you don't feel good about yourself. But the funny thing is,
acne is in a degree, increased by the stress.
It has been
proven that the diet can also benefit or be bad for your skin and can cause
acne. It depends what you eat, and how much care you take about eating healthy.
Don't eat refined foods, and don't eat too much simple carbohydrates like white
rice, white bread, sugar... This messes your insulin during the day. This, in
return, causes the grow factor hormone to be released (IGF-1), and you get
inflammation of the glands we discussed earlier. You get sebum production grow,
and the skin cells are overproduced. This is what, again, in the end causes
pimples.
You should
take enough vitamin E and A. Some scientist also say that diary products can
also cause pimples, and that this is because they have the growth hormone
inside them as a nus product of the milk production.
This leads
us to the conclusion that more than just one factor is what causes pimples, and
if you want to get rid of them with any home remedy for acne or any acne
medicament you need to take care of your health primarily.
Hope we have
answered to most of the questions on what causes pimples.