Imperfection prone skin

Imperfection prone skin can affect adults as well as adolescents. To help manage imperfection prone skin you need to understand it:

• Imperfections: the cause
• Imperfections: the manifestation.

Imperfections: the cause

Imperfections often mean the presence of blackheads, which can affect all types of skin: greasy, combination, normal or dehydrated. The main causes of imperfections are:

Lifestyle

This has a very significant impact on the skin. A lifestyle where there is too little sleep and a situation that gives rise to stress and an unbalanced diet can affect the skin.

This may spark off a chain reaction that over stimulates the sebaceous gland and generates irregular secretion.

Hormonal component.

This is a component for women, especially in the pre-menstrual period. The production of sebum increases in an irregular way which can affect the skin.

Pollution

Pollution in our towns and cities can exacerbate imperfections. Dirt molecules are deposited on the skin clogging it, obstructing the sebaceous ducts encouraging the appearance of blackheads.

Use of some cosmetics

Some soap products which can be effective against impurities can often leave the skin feeling dry.

Imperfections: the signs

Imperfections show themselves in various ways but are generally localised on the face, usually on the lower part of the chin, the jaw area and under the jawbone.

Imperfections are therefore different from pathological adolescent imperfection which is found mainly on the back of the shoulders and neck. Here you can see some types of imperfections.

Irregularity of the skins surface.

The sebaceous glands are obstructed by excessive production of sebum. The process of irregular cellular renewal brings hyper-keratinisation.

Obstructed pores.

These are located mainly on the face and nose.

Dilated pores.

These are connected to excess production of sebum and to the accumulation of grease on the skin.

Blackheads

The excess production of sebum obstructs the mouth of the sebaceous gland forming open blackheads (on contact with the air the sebum stopper oxidises and assumes a dark colour).

Shine

This is located mainly on the face and nose and is due to excess production of sebum, arising from the follicle and spreading over the surrounding skin.

All these imperfections have a common origin, connected to two correlated phenomena:

• Irregularity in the production of sebum

  The pilo-sebaceous follicles secrete an irregular quantity of sebum that is spread in a non homogeneous way to various parts of the face.

• Alterations in the process of keratinisation.

  The process of cellular renewal no longer takes place in the correct way: the cells exfoliate too quickly or, on the contrary, too slowly, causing an obstruction in the duct. In this way a bung is formed from dead cells which impede the outward flow of sebum.