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What Is Blackhead? A Nine Point Answer To Your Most Basic Query! Part I |
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Blackheads: What you already know about them!
Blackheads are recurring pesky black spots on your nose, ears, chin or back. They occur in clusters and are unsightly. Many of us prefer to extract them lifelong to look pleasing. And sometimes, during this regular clean up, mal play with them to attract a series of acne or pimples or some other kinds of skin eruptions.
Blackheads: What you do not know about them!
But blackheads do not cause acne! They themselves are a form of acne. However, they are non inflammatory acne and may be a cause to other severe form of acne which are inflammatory in nature and cause pain.
How blackheads are formed?
Our skin contains hundreds of tiny pores. Blackheads occur in partially blocked pores. When sebum, dead cells, and bacteria drain slowly to the surface of the skin, the pigments in the skin turn black on oxidization. This forms skin eruptions in the form blackheads.
They are therefore yellowish or blackish on the surface of your skin. The material inside a blackhead consists of keratin and sebum- which is the oily substance that comes out from sebaceous glands.
Having blackheads is a medical problem.
Medically, blackheads are termed as open comedones. Getting blackheads is a medical problem and needs to be treated on time. Many people believe that it is a cosmetic trouble and can be dealt only at beauty salons. But this is a big myth and may expose you to bigger troubles.
Causes of blackheads
To get rid of blackheads it is important that you realize what is causing blackheads to you. Getting new blackheads frequently indicates a greater problem inside you. The possible factors that cause blackheads are:
- Lack of water in one's body.
- Excess dead cells blocking the opening to the pore.
- Excess production of facial oil.
- Improper cleansing routine wherein the facial oil may not be getting removed.
- Excess scrubbing of the skin.
- Use of products/makeup that may contain too much of oil.
- Medical problems like indigestion, constipation, under active thyroid and anemia are also considered as contributing factors to blackheads.
This is the basic outline on what is blackhead and how are they formed.
To know about facial blackheads and facial blackhead treatment read the
remaining five points in the article
What Is Blackhead? A Nine Point Answer To Your Most Basic Query! Part II.
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