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Acne Is Not Just a Teenage Disease!

We cannot stress this enough. Acne does not only affect teenagers. You cannot just outgrow it once you reach the end of adolescence. Infants can have acne present at birth and children can get it as early as 10 or

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Beware of Your Cleansers

When buying cleansers to help with your acne, be extremely careful when choosing. Cleansers can actually cause some of your breakouts. How? Some cleansers can contain comedogenic ingredients and oils, which you can see a list of here. Detergents play an

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How Acne Scars the Skin

The body’s natural response to destroy an acne impaction is to send in white blood cells. The problem with that is that quite often, the white blood cells turn on the surrounding tissue within the follicle while trying to destroy

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What Are the Types of Inflammatory Acne?

There are four types of inflammatory acne: The best thing an acne sufferer can do is to catch their acne while it is in the papule stage and begin icing it immediately. You can almost always feel when it is

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Acne Treatments

Retin-A: The Real Story

One of the most commonly prescribed drugs for acne sufferers is Retin-A. It belongs to a group of medications that are derived from vitamin A, and is used to treat mild to severe acne. The active ingredient in this medication

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Acne

What Is Hyperpigmentation?

A common misconception about acne is that the red marks left behind after a breakout are scars. This is not true. Your red marks, or hyperpigmentation, are not scars. They will actually heal and go away in several months. How

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