Even if you understand the how of acne (oil + dead skin cells = clogged pores) you may wonder why your skin breaks out while other people seem to always have clear skin.

A number of factors can exacerbate acne or increase your risk.

Changes in hormone levels (such as during puberty or menstruation) Changing hormones causes the sebaceous glands to secrete more sebum, as the AAD notes.

Cosmetics or hair-care products Oily cosmetics can clog your pores, making you susceptible to breakouts.

Having a family history of acne There appears to be a connection between acne and genes. So if your parents struggled with acne, you may, too.

Some medications You may have acne if you take other medications like corticosteroids or lithium.

Something rubbing on the skin (like a hat, helmet, or face mask) Breakouts can also occur whenever there’s any type of pressure or friction on your skin.

This is called mechanical acne.

In the time of COVID-19, maskne or “mask acne” has unsurprisingly become a problem, given what dermatologists know about the effects of friction on skin.

Stress Stress increases your body’s level of cortisol, a hormone that causes your glands to produce more sebum.

Learn More About the Causes of Acne: Common Risk Factors, Genetics, and More

A doctor or dermatologist can usually diagnose acne by looking at your skin; They’ll examine your face, chest, back, and any other areas where acne appears.

Some skin conditions are sometimes mistaken for acne. If you believe you have acne yet your skin doesn’t improve with treatment or worsens, your doctor can make an accurate diagnosis.

The duration of acne varies from person to person. When acne develops in the teen years, it often becomes less of an issue by the time a person is in their mid-twenties, according to the NHS.

Unfortunately, some people struggle with acne even through their twenties. In fact, about 3 percent of adults over 35 continue to have acne off and on.

There’s no cure for acne in allopathic medicine, but treatments can get rid of and prevent new breakouts. The acne treatment that’s best for is Homeopathic treatment.

A good skin-care regimen for example Dixe Face Washes; is often the first line of defense for mild acne or the occasional pimple. But sometimes, treatment is needed to keep skin healthy.

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Allopathic Over the Counter (OTC) Products

According to the Al-Haytham Clinic, these solutions include medicated cleansers, lotions, creams, gels, and face pads. They typically contain acne-fighting ingredients such as:

• Benzoyl peroxide
• Glycolic acid
• Salicylic acid
• Azelaic acid
• Niacinamide
• Topical retinoids

These ingredients work by either preventing the plugging of hair follicles, fighting bacteria on the skin, reducing oil production, or exfoliating the top layer of skin.

Harth explains that to heal body acne — such as back acne — you will need an effective face wash like Dixe Mineral.

The Importance of Consistency in Treating Acne

You’ll probably need to treat acne for an extended period — not only during a breakout. Also, don’t stop an acne treatment until your doctor says it’s okay — otherwise, you run the risk of having another breakout just when your skin starts to clear.

Without treatment, you may have persistent breakouts and scarring of the skin. Anxiety and low self-esteem are also associated with persistent acne, according to a review published in March 2018 in the International Journal of Women’s Dermatology.

Alternative and Complementary Therapies for Acne 

Although traditional acne therapies are proven effective, you may want to experiment with home remedies to complement your plan. While these options won’t be as effective as medications or procedures. Some acne medicines can cause dizziness, upset stomach, sun sensitivity, and blood clots.

Ingredients that may help fight acne include:

• Cucumbers
• Honey
• Yogurt
• Oatmeal
• Turmeric

More research is needed to determine the effectiveness of acne home remedies.

Homeopathic Treatment for Acne

Homeopathy offers a very short-term cure to acne pimples and blackheads problems.  Homeopathic medicines will target the root cause/triggers factors of the disease.

Antimonium Crudum

If acne is of granular like eruption, lumpy, red, burning, suppurating postural like eruptions on the face with red areola have an inflamed (red, and sensitive/painful) base.

Blotches type acne over cheek with heat sensation; Postural type acne:  The emotional picture of the person could be depressed (the deep-seated triggers factor), exhausted for life.

Sulphur

Herpes across the nose. Dry, scaly, unhealthy; every little injury suppurates. Freckles. Itching, burning; worse scratching and washing. Pimply eruption, pustules, rhagades, hangnails. Excoriation, especially in folds. Feeling of a band around bones. Skin affections after local medication. Pruritus, especially from warmth, is evening, often recurs in springtime, in damp weather.

Hepar Sulphuricum

Yellowish complexion, unhealthy skin. Vesicular erysipelas, with pricking. Ulcers in corners of mouth. Papules prone to suppurate and extend. Acne in youth. Suppurate with prickly pain. Easily bleed. Angioneurotic oedema. Chapped skin, with deep cracks on hands and feet. Ulcers, with bloody suppuration. Putrid ulcers, surrounded by little pimples. Great sensitiveness to slightest touch. Chronic and reoccurring urticaria. Smallpox. Herpes Cincinnatus. Constant offensive exhalation from the body.

Calceria Sulphuricum

Cuts, wounds, bruises, etc., unhealthy, discharging pus; they do not heal readily. Yellow, purulent crusts or discharge. Purulent exudates in or upon the skin. Skin affections with yellowish scabs. Many little matterless pimples under the hair, bleeding when scratched. Dry eczema in children.

Silica Tera

Pale and earthy complexion. White spots on cheeks, from time to time. Red, burning spots on cheeks and nose. Itching in whiskers. Furunculus on cheek. Cracks and rhagades. Scabious eruption on lips. Felons, abscesses, boils, old fistulous ulcers. Delicate, pale, waxy. Cracks at end of fingers. Painless swelling of glands. Rose-colored blotches. Scars. Side effects of vaccination: Bursa. Lepra, nodes, and coppery spots. Keloid growths.

Berberis Aquifolium

A medicine of the choice for the skin. Acne. Blotches and pimples. Clears the complexion. Pimply, dry, rough, scaly. Eruption on scalp extending to face and neck. Tumor of breast, with pain. Psoriasis. Acne. Dry eczema. Pruritus. Glandular induration.

Dulcamara

Humid eruption on cheeks and face generally. Adenitis. Pruritus, always worse in cold, wet weather. Herpes zoster, pemphigus. Swelling and indurated glands from cold. Vesicular eruptions. Sensitive bleeding ulcers on skin. Little boils. Red spots, urticaria, brought on by exposure, or sour stomach. Humid eruptions on face, genitals, hands, etc. Warts, large, smooth, on face and palmar surface of hands. Anasarca. Thick brown-yellow crusts, bleeding when scratched.

Bovista

Scurf and crusts about nostrils and corners of mouth. Lips chapped. Bleeding of nose and gums. Cheeks and lips feel swollen. Acne worse in summer; due to use of cosmetics. Blunt instruments leave deep impression on the skin. Urticaria on excitement, with rheumatic lameness, palpitation and diarrhea. Itching on getting warm. Eczema, moist; formation of thick crusts. Pimples cover the entire body; scurvy; herpetic eruptions. Pruritus ani. Urticaria on waking in the morning, worse from bathing. Pellagra.

Lycopodium

Grayish-yellow color of face, with blue circles around eyes. Withered, shriveled, and emaciated; copper-colored eruption. Itching; scaly herpes in face and corner of mouth. Ulcerates. Abscesses beneath skin; worse warm applications. Hives; worse, warmth. Violent itching; fissured eruptions. Acne. Chronic eczema associated with urinary, gastric and hepatic disorders, bleeds easily. Skin becomes thick and indurated. Varicose veins, naevi, erectile tumors. Brown spots, freckles worse on left side of face and nose. Dry, shrunken, especially palms; hair becomes prematurely gray. Dropsies. Offensive secretions; viscid and offensive perspiration, especially of feet and axilla. Psoriasis.

Natrum Muriaticum

Oily, shiny, as if greased. Earthy complexion. Fevers-blisters. Greasy, oily, especially on hairy parts. Dry eruptions, especially on margin of hairy scalp and bends of joints. Fever blisters. Urticaria; itch and burn. Crusty eruptions in bends of limbs, margin of scalp, behind ears. Warts on palms of hands. Eczema; raw, red, and inflamed; worse, eating salt, at seashore. Affects hair follicles. Alopecia. Hives, itching after exertion.

Causticum

Soreness in folds of skin, back of ears, between thighs. Warts large, jagged, bleeding easily, on tips of fingers and nose. Old burns that do not get well, and ill effects from burns. Pains of burns. Cicatrices freshen up; old injuries reopen. Skin prone to intertrigo during dentition.

Pulsatilla

Urticaria, after rich food, with diarrhea, from delayed menses, worse undressing. Measles. Acne at puberty. Varicose veins.

Psorinum

Swelling of upper lip. Pale, delicate. Humid eruption on face. Sickly. Dirty, dingy look. Dry, lusterless, rough hair. Intolerable itching. Herpetic eruptions, especially on scalp and bends of joints with itching; worse, from warmth of bed. Enlarged glands. Sebaceous glands secrete excessively, oily skin. Indolent ulcers, slow to heal. Eczema behind ears. Crusty eruptions all over. Urticaria after every exertion. Pustules near fingernails.

Arsenicum Iodatum

Acne vulgaris, acne of postural or nodular type. Dry, scaly, itching. Marked exfoliation of skin in large scales, leaving a raw exuding surface beneath. Ichthyosis. Enlarged scrofulous glands. Venereal bubo. Debilitating night-sweats. Eczema of the beard; watery, oozing, itching; worse, washing. Emaciation. Psoriasis. Acne hard, shotty, indurated base with pustule at apex.

Calcarea Carbonica

Crusta lactea; itching, burning after washing. Unhealthy; readily ulcerating; flaccid. Small wounds do not heal readily. Glands swollen. Nettle rash; better in cold air. Warts on face and hands. Petechial eruptions. Chilblains. Boils.

Asteria Rubens

Face red. Pimples on side of nose, chin and mouth. Disposition to pimples at adolescence. Destitute of pliability and elasticity. Itching spots. Ulcers, with fetid ichor. Acne. Psoriasis and herpes zoster worse left arm and chest. Enlarged axillary glands, worse, at night and in damp weather.

Kali Bromatum

The Acnes are of postural, indurate nature. Scars left after the acne heals up. Physical constitution is of obese, younger person.

The person is very nervous, depressed, low spirited in nature. The depression is mingled with anxiety and feels as if he would loss his mind, feels restless and insomnia due to worry or grief from loss of job/of business/of property and/or loss of reputation etc. Melancholic in nature.

Healthy tips for Acne Pimples & Blackhead

1. Wash your face three to five times a day with Dixe Face Wash (any) with warm water.
2. Do not scrub the skin or burst the pimples. This may push the infection further down, causing more blocking, swelling, and redness.
3. Avoid popping your pimples, as this makes scarring on your face.
4. Consult to your doctor for best and helpful treatment.
5. Hold the mobiles or telephone away from the face when talking, as it is likely to contain sebum and skin residue.
6. Select makeup for your sensitive skin and avoid oil-based cosmetics products.
7. Always keep your hair clean, as it collects sebum and skin residue.
8. Don’t use greasy hair products, such as those containing cocoa butter.
9. Try to avoid excessive sun exposure, it can cause the skin to produce more sebum.
10. Several acne medicines also increase the risk of sunburn.
11. Avoid anxiety and stress, as it can stimulate to increase more production of cortisol and adrenaline, which exacerbate acne.

It isn’t enough to understand what causes acne. You should also take steps to stop pimples before they pop up.

• Wash your face three to five times a day. Use warm water and a mild cleanser, and don’t scrub too hard, or else you could damage the protective layer of your skin and make acne worse, warns Harth.
• Keep hair off your face. Greasy, oily hair can make your skin oily, which can clog your pores and cause acne. Wash your hair regularly and keep hair off your face.
• Use oil-free skin-care products. Look for “non comedogenic” skin-care products, which don’t clog pores. Noncomedogenic products are less likely to result in acne breakouts.
• Don’t sleep in your makeup. Removing all traces of makeup before bedtime keeps your pores open and prevents acne. Sometimes, warm water isn’t enough to remove makeup. “You will usually need to use oil-free makeup remover wipes in addition to your cleanser,” notes Harth.