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Acne, what kind of cosmetics or skincare products should I use?

Introduction

When it comes to skin care, acne is really a problem that many people struggle with and care about. However, there are many people who don't know how to manage acne and what kind of skincare product to use. 

Through this posting, I hope many people will understand about acne and learn what skin care products to use.

What causes acne?

In order to determine the cause, you must first understand your skin type. Acne usually comes from oily skin. For more information on skin types, please refer to the link (Definition of all skin types: Dry, Oily, and all others)

Of course, there may be several causes such as stress, puberty, and excessive sebum, but it is most likely due to sebum and dead skin cells. 

The sebum in the pores continues to accumulate due to oil or dead skin cells, and this accumulated sebum causes acne.

However, simply removing sebum and dead skin cells through cleansing can also cause acne because sebum also works as protection of the skin from foreign substances and germs.

For your information, there are many kinds of pimples, such as nodular, papules, whitehead, blackhead, and pustules, but in this article, we will collectively refer to them as acne.

Which cosmetics are for acne?

Therefore, most skincare products, called acne cosmetics, feel dry after use. In particular, when applied in winter, the skin feels very tight, and additional dead skin cells are lifted which makes the makeup difficult to apply.

Of course, there are products that improve acne while maintaining a moisturizing feeling, but most of them simply function as sterilization, and it is difficult to see practical effects.

The most effective way is to look at the ingredients
  • Tea tree oil reduces inflammation and bacteria
  • Salicylic acid, glycolic acid that melts dead skin cells and sebum
  • And there are Azelaic acids that soothe inflammation.

If it is difficult to judge by the ingredients, it may be judged by the oil amount in the cosmetics product. As mentioned earlier, the worst thing for acne skin is oil, so oil-rich products cannot be skin care for acne. Therefore, it would be good to try products with phrases such as "non-oil" or "oil-free".

Does Acne patch or Hydrocolloidal patch work?

In the case of patches, it may have no direct effect on acne. But it can help relieve acne. This sounds complicated, but it's a simple theory.

First of all the patch does not have a direct effect, because when you attach a patch to a acne, the patch touches the top (the part that becomes the blackhead) part only where the actual root of cause is underneath it. 

Whitehead or inflammatory acne, which we call millet seed acne, is deep inside the pores below blackhead, so the ingredients of the patch cannot get there. These days, it is said that needle patches penetrates into the inside, but this content will be covered in other posts.

On the contrary, it is certain that the patch helps relieve acne. When acne breaks out, pus and tissue fluids come out, which are called exudates.

If the exudate remains on the skin, it delays skin recovery and causes scars, but in the case of hydrocolloid, it absorbs the exudate to help recover acne scars.

In addition, the patch itself serves to cover the broken wound, and at the same time, it protects the part from harmful substances in cosmetics even when makeup is needed.

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- Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay
Location: South Korea

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