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Blackheads named for their typically dark color, are
considered an open comedo. The color of the
blackhead is not caused by dirt, but by excess skin
pigment, debris and skin particles. The secretions
are called sebum and this oil drains into hair
follicles. The sebum typically hardens and when it
does close to the surface of the skin, it forms a
plug and is known as a blackhead. It is caused by
excess oils that have accumulated in the sebaceous
gland 's duct. Blackheads are typically caused by
excessive oil and makeup. The substance found in
these bumps mostly consists of keratin and modified
sebum (an oily secretion of the sebaceous gland ),
which darkens (resembling dirt) as it oxidizes.
Blackheads are the slightly different sibling of
zits, and like zits, squeezing them can be
addictive.
Causes of Blackheads
Blackheads is caused when excess skin oil, sebum and
congesting toxins are expelled through your skin
from the blood and lymph fluid that supplies your
skin with nutrients. These congesting toxins
combined with skin oil and sebum clogs your pores
causing blackheads, whiteheads, and full blown acne.
Dirt also plays a big role in developing skin
blackheads. The dirt stored on the face or other
parts of body make the bacteria to develop. The dirt
with oily skin makes things even worse.
Although food is not the cause of blackhead but
doctor believe that there may be some role of food
in it too.
Some people have a skin condition in which their
skin cells don’t shed the way they should, creating
a greater potential for blackheads. If you have this
problem, it is especially important to exfoliate two
or three times each week to help remove dead skin
cells.
It is easy to squeeze a blackhead and believe we are
extracting all that pore-clogging bacteria because
we see something come out of the pore. But really,
squeezing can push all that gunk and bacteria
further back into the skin. This means you haven’t
gotten it all and the blackheads will probably come
right back.
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