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Acne

Everyone has been though an embarrassing moment in there lifetime. One of the worst is when a big red dot raises to your skin on your face before an important day. This dot is called a pimple, and people wake up with new ones everyday. There are many mysteries about how to cure acne, but what we do know is how to control it with certain medicines.
Hormones and acne have a direct connection. When puberty hits, the body produces a high level of testosterone and androgen (Skin Conditions). These hormones simulate sebaceous glands to enlarge and secrete more sebum. The sebum gets accumulated in the follicle, and moves up the hair shaft to exterior part of the skin (The acne resource center online). A bacteria, know as Probionibacterium acnes, live on the skin harmlessly but when an ideal environment is formed it grows (Acne). This bacteria grows in plugged follicles and feeds on sebum. So when the Sebum goes up the follicles, the bacteria mixes with sebum causing the hair......

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