Blackheads,Treatment of blackheads
What are blackheads? Blackheads are small bumps that appear on your skin due to clogged hair follicles, these bumps are called blackheads because the surface looks dark or black. Blackheads are a mild type of acne that usually forms on the face. Another way to define blackheads, A blackhead is a little tiny pore filled with dead skin cells and sebum, or the oils on our face. Now, when the oils and the d ead skin cells hit the air, they get what's called oxidized, and they turn black, hence the term blackhead we use. In scientific terms, that's called an open comedo, and that's what makes them different from whiteheads, which are closed comedones, and they don't have that blackish color. Why do blackheads appear? Hormonal imbalance causes excess sebum production sebum promotes the accumulation of dead skin cells and impurities thus blocking pores pore blockage results in enlarged pores the exposed sebum oxidizes in the air and turns black resulting in blackheads. How ...