What Is Acne

There are thousands of people who are looking for answers when it comes to acne and spots.  Understanding what acne is has to be one of the best places to start which will help you to see how acne begins, what causes spots and acne in the first place and why this happens.

What Is Acne?

Here you can see what healthy skin looks like.  The skin surface is healthy and showing no signs of spots or acne.

The sebum is at the right levels to maintain healthy skin and no blockages can be seen.

In this image on the right however, we can see that blockages have formed at the opening of the hair folicle and large build ups of bacteria can be seen.

This is how spots such as whiteheads and blackheads start to form.

The images above are courtesy of the National Institute Of Health.