Acne or Pimple

Pimple or acne is a common skin problem which happens to most teenager and some adult. It is generally believed is caused by excess oil that clog up and solidify inside oil gland. This solidified oil glue the dead skin together, thus attract bacteria and cause secondary infection.

Beside above reasons, certain acne cases also can be caused by:

• Allergic - Allergy to certain foods and wrongly use of cosmetic products
• Hormone - Menstrual or birth control pill
• Stress

Why some easily having pimples, but some don't? Before answering such question. Let us have a look at how some marketers using "scare tactics" to buy their products.  Common cosmetic products that in the market are targeting on peeling, oil control and/or bactericidal ingredients into their formulations.

Although acne is not a life threatening skin problem, but if for some individual has excessive acne, it does reduce one's self esteem. Following are some common topical treatments for acne.

1. Oil gland drying products or sebum control - common ingredients like benzoyl peroxide, retinoids.  They act as a "drying-agent " to dry out the oil gland and at the same time kill bacteria (due to peroxide). However, sometimes the oil-seed simply dry out under our skin and difficult for it to be "extracted" out, and excessive usage also will have noticeable dry rough skin due to not enough natural moisturizer on the skin.
   
2. Peeling ingredients - Alpha hydroxy acids (AHAs) like glycolic acid, lactic acid and/or beta hydroxy acid (BHA) like salicylic acid.  Prolong usage of peeling agents will cause our skin become thin and more susceptible and sensitive to UV, environmental substances like smoke, volatile solvents, dust, pollens, fragrances and chemicals (natural or synthetic) from skin care products, as a result you might have to spend more money and time on taking care of your sensitive skin!!
   
3. Antibiotic or bacterial static products - like trichlosan, tea tree oil, lavender, prescriptive antibiotic.  We know germs cannot be wiped out 100%. And also, we believe prolong abuse usage of such microbes killing chemicals will, and in the long run, help the germs to develop resistant to such chemicals, and we don't want to "train" germs to become "super bugs". Of course, if such chemicals can kill tiny microbes, so does it able to kill our skin cells.
4. Hormonal drug - usually male hormone suppressing drugs
5. Anti sensitive drugs - steroids, cortisone

Hormonal and anti sensitive drugs can only be available in over the counter's (OTC) pharmacist. Prolong usage of oil suppressing products will make our skin dry, chapped lips and sensitive; and retinoid is a prescriptive drug and if taking too much will have dry lips and possibly birth deform during pregnancy. Long term taking antibiotic will damage our vital organs (kidney and liver), and will make bacteria resistant to the drugs too if over abuse.

CellCare team studied why people like beggar, trash collectors (old or young) do not seem to have acne problem? And if dirtiness and oily face are the reasons causing acne, then we will see at least 90% of beggars, trash collectors, construction workers, rural kids and auto mobile mechanic will have pimple-face. However, real situation is not as its believed to be.  Some even might have smoother skin than yours!!

In CellCare, we do not approach the above treatments, we simply make our skin healthy and has it own defending strength, once our skin strong and healthy, acne problem will not appear.

So hypothesis could be true (that is having a healthy skin) and our solution is simple - just using our Naturel Soap, Syner-G Toner and Healthy Face Emulsion.

Side notes:-

As mentioned above, individual's sensitive to certain substance does contribute acne problems, therefore understand your own sensitivity is vital. Following are just general observation that we believe might help reduce acne

• Reduce or stop oils intake that have substantial amount of omega 6, like peanut, flaxseed oil etc
• Reduce habitual intake of nuts but not coconut.  We don't think chocolate contribute acne but nuts in the chocolate might
• Reduce intake of fried-food
• Remove your make-up, foundation or UV cream thoroughly, as these products contain fine powder, colors and water-proof film, which will clog up pore

CellCare wish you can take care of yourselves and have a healthy skin and life style.

暗瘡是一種常見的皮膚問題，它大部分發生在青少年和一些成人。一般是由於過多的油阻塞和凝固硬化內部油腺。這凝固的油膠粘死皮在一起，從而吸引細菌造成二次感染。

除了上述原因，某些情況下也可引起暗瘡：

• 過敏 - 食品和化妝品的錯誤使用
• 激素 - 月經或避孕藥
• 壓力 - 過度操勞

為什麼有些人容易生暗瘡，有些卻不？在回答這問題之前。讓我們看看一些營銷員如何使用“恐嚇戰術”，以購買其產品。普通的化妝品，在市場上都是針對脫皮，控油和/或殺菌成份加入其配方。

雖然暗瘡不是一種危及生命的皮膚問題，但如果嚴重，它將減少一個人的自尊心。以下是一些常見的暗瘡局部治療。

1. 油腺乾燥產品 - 常見的成分像過氧化苯甲酰（benzyl peroxide)，維甲酸(tretinoin)
2. 抗生素或微生菌抑制品 - 像trichlosan，茶樹油，薰衣草油
3. 激素賀爾蒙藥物 - 通常是男性激素抑制藥物
4. 抗敏感的藥物 - 類固醇(steroids)，可的松（cortisone)

激素賀爾蒙及抗敏藥物只能在櫃檯的藥劑師提供。長期使用油腺抑制產品將導致我們的皮膚乾燥，乾裂的嘴唇和敏感，而維甲酸是一種開單藥方，如果服用過多，會在懷孕期間促使胎兒異形。長期服用抗生素會破壞我們的重要器官（腎臟和肝臟），如果抗生素過度被濫用，並將促使微生菌產生抗藥性。

我們在考究為什麼像乞丐，收垃圾的人（老或年輕的）似乎沒有暗瘡問題呢？如果骯髒和油性臉是造成暗瘡的原因，那麼我們將看到至少90％的乞丐，收垃圾的人，建築工人，農村小孩和維修汽車的人將滿臉暗瘡。但實際情況並不是。有些他們的皮膚甚至可能比你的皮膚更滑潤！！

在CellCare，我們並不認同上述暗瘡處理，我們認為只要讓我們的皮膚健康，有它自己的防守力量，一旦我們的皮膚健康，暗瘡問題就將不會出現。

因此，我們的假設可能是正確的 (即擁有一個健康的皮膚)。而且我們的解決方法很簡單 - 只需使用我們的 Naturel Soap，Syner-G Toner 和 Healthy Face 乳液。

注意： -

如上所述，個人對某種物質敏感，不利於粉刺的問題，因此了解自己的敏感度是至關重要的。以下只是我們的一般觀察，認為可能幫助減少粉刺

• 減少攝入含高量 Omega 6 的油, 如花生，Flaxseed油等。
• 減少攝取堅果的習慣。
• 減少油炸食品
• 徹底清洗你的化妝，粉底霜或紫外霜，因為這些產品含有細粉末，顏色染料及防水膜。

CellCare祝你可以護理自己，讓本身擁有健康的皮膚和生活。