Get Rid of Acne!

Summer vacation is the official kickoff to tanning season for many college students. Not every student can go to five-star destination with ther friends. Most of them just getting their membership to the nearest tanning salon. Many students believe tanning is quite simply the best makeover; they claim to feel slimmer and look healthier. But the biggest myth that students fall victim to, is the belief that tanning can cover up their skin imperfections, like stubborn pimples or acne scarring.

There is a common misconception that UV rays from the sun or a tanning booth can effectively treat acne. Many students believe it “dries up the oil and the problems.” But what students don’t realize is that a tan actually only serves to mask the discoloration associated with acne and other skin conditions. The not-so-glamorous reality is that tanning, while also the number one contributor to skin cancer, can also make your acne much worse. Although a tan may temporarily camouflage breakouts and discoloration caused by acne, your tan is actually fueling the fire for acne. To understand this, you must first understand what causes acne – and no, it is not greasy foods or dirt!

Acne is an inflammatory condition of the skin that occurs when the pores become clogged. Our skin is constantly shedding dead cells to make way for new ones. The sebaceous glands make an oily substance called sebum that is designed to empty healthy bacteria onto the skin’s surface through the opening of the pore – this is also how we shed our skin cells. In a person suffering from acne, their body does not shed skin cells properly because that oil is trapped below the surface causing a “plug” made of oil, hair and skin. The plug makes it very difficult for your body to shed the dead skin cells so they end up staying “plugged” below the skin where the mixture of sebum, hair and skin cells will eventually overflow into the nearby skin, leading to a pimple of some sort.

An alarming number of acne sufferers have no idea what really causes acne – “inability to shed their own skin”.

For acne sufferers, tanning worsens the problem because it causes your body to secrete even more dead skin cells than it normally would. But as explained, these skin cells are remaining “plugged” below the surface, unable to escape for quite some time.

Acne sufferers with a fading tan is a quite often case. But the patient typically is – instead of correctly blaming the tan they blame the cooling weather and lack of tan! In reality, the pimples they are seeing today did not form last night – they began forming on Spring Break when their tan caused an increased number of skin cells to get plugged beneath the surface; those plugs take a while to move to the surface where the pimple forms.

Many of patients are young adults who have tried everything from Proactive to Accutane to home remedies, and the Healthy Pores is the only treatment that has delivered results.

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