Thursday, December 25, 2008

Adult Acne Can Be Cured

By Jennifer King

Adult acne is absolutely a disagreeable thing to have, particularly if you are a woman and care on how you look. If you observed the acne you had when you were 15 has come again in your 30s, rest assured, you're in good company. Around 25% of men and 50% of women will suffer from adult acne at some point in their life. One in five women between the ages of 25 and 40 has adult acne. It doesn't matter what age you are acne is difficult to deal with, and it can cause depression and other social problems just like it does in a teenager growing up.

Acne has a tendency to run in families. The possibility of you suffering from adult acne is higher if one of your parents suffered from it. In addition, adults with oily skin forms are more apt to acne breakouts. Adult acne may be exasperating, but don't quit hope. Acne treatments are more effective now than they have ever been, and more natural cures are coming to light because of the way they deal with the problem from the root cause.

Hormones are to blame for a lot of cases of adult acne. In women the birth control pill, pregnancy and menstruation commonly cause acne because of the hormonal changes they cause. As well as hormonal changes, there are other reasons for acne breakouts in adults.

Acne can also be caused by bad cosmetics and stress. Stress leads to your oil glands to overcompensate. Your pores have a much higher risk of being blocked with bacteria if you wear bad cosmetics. These things can easily be reversed if you think that they're causing your acne breakouts

Your doctor can prescribe chemical based treatments for your acne or you can treat yourself naturally. Where years ago everyone would need a chemical treatment, natural cures are being used by more sufferers. We can thank researchers for this, and they now know that acne has a cause like most other infections, and natural cures attack the acne from the cause.

It's entirely up to you how you treat your skin. Because there is no one cause of acne all treatments have a different affect on everyone. You just have to find what treatment works best for you. - 16463

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