Find Out What Causes Adult Acne
Adult acne is a genuine curse that is very hard to get rid of. As if I was not plagued by enough acne as a youth, I carry on to get outbreaks well into my adult life, and I can not seem to prevent them entirely. I have tried dozens of different acne face washes, body washes, and other skin care products, and while they all seem to help I still get some horrible outbreaks now and then. Naturally, I have been very curious as to the causes of adult acne so that I may better comprehend how to get rid of it.
There are a lot of different possible causes of adult acne, which makes it all the harder to fight. While the existing cellular process that causes acne is clogged pores, usually by the action of bacteria, fighting bacteria on your skin is a hopeless and misdirected solution. First of all, every inch of our skin is covered by bacteria whether we like it or not. Secondly, we in fact need the bacteria on our skin to be there so trying to get rid of them all is not the right approach. Therefore, spirited scrubbing with antibacterial products is not going to help you and may in reality just make things worse.
The causes of adult acne, as with any acne, may be mainly due to bacteria, but the bacteria are only responding to some kind of imbalance on our skin that has a deeper origin. When everything is functioning right, bacteria are in a sort of balance with our skin, and nothing gets clogged. So the true base causes of adult acne are something deeper than just bacteria. So far the two that make the most sense to me are stress and genetics.
Under periods of elevated stress, I am so much more prone to acne outbreaks that there is an obvious link between the two. Something about being stressed causes the balance on my skin to teeter enough for the bacteria to start clogging pores. There must be something my body produces under stressed conditions, which is then excreted through pores and taken up by bacteria. While I am sort of theorizing here, there is a lot of clinical proof to suggest a link between stress and adult acne.
There must also be a genetic component to the causes of adult acne purely because some individuals just do not get it at all no matter how stressed they are, and others, like me, get large outbreaks whenever we are mildly stressed. Whatever the causes of adult acne may be, its just about hopeless to cure.
