“Blackheads! Just make them go away”
Jul 27th 2010adminBest practices for healthy skin & How skin works & Skin care products
Yes, I’ve seen them, too … the ads that claim you can get rid of blackheads in 72 hours or even minutes.
There are products that offer to scrub them off, burn them away with chemical mixtures — even dig them out of your pores.
There is a basic flaw here. These remedies, in addition to being extremely harsh, are all external applications.
The reason this approach is flawed is that the blackhead you see on the surface of your face didn’t just land there and start clogging your pores.
Cell biologists know cells like nobody else. They study how cells grow and how problems develop. What have they found out?
Here is a scenario for the development of a blackhead.
A bacterium gets into an oil gland. It soon becomes a horde of bacteria, then an infection.
The infected waste is pushed up through the cell to the skin surface.
Upon reaching your face, this material is exposed to air.
Free radicals in the air get to work (the same way they do on a cut apple).
This is oxidation. The exposed material turns darker and becomes visible.
You see a new blackhead.
When you remove the dark top by scrubbing or chemically destroying it, you don’t see the blackhead anymore. You could say you got rid of it, in a way.
You got rid of the part of the blackhead you could see –
What you can’t see is that the problem is still there, working its way up from below.
Your blackheads have not gone away.
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