The Cause Of Spots And Acne

This one question, “The Cause Of Spots And Acne” really used to drive me mad.  I just couldn’t work out why some people got spots and others never even had a pimple!  I saw six different dietitians and doctors in my hunt for the cure and each one of them told me that same thing ……

It’s just unlucky that your body is built the way it is.

They all told me that the number one cause of acne and spots is your hormones, something that you just cannot control.  It seems that when your body starts to produce the sex hormone known as androgen, your body just gets a little carried away and gets covered in spots.  You would probably already noticed that the biggest sufferers of spots and acne are teenagers (don’t worry, I was way past teens too) and they get it when their body starts to change and evolve into adulthood.

It seems that when the body starts to get enough of this ‘androgen’ into it’s system, it also starts producing sebum, the natural oil in the skin and this combined with the dead skin cells found naturally on the skin, bacteria that lives on all of us too, you have the exact ingredients or the main causes of spots and acne.

Stress is also a major factor in causing spots and acne, so the more stressed out we get about it, the worst our skin is likely to get.  When our bodies are stressed, they start to produce more hormones or increase the hormones that we have already, one of the new hormones that it produces in times of stress is cortisol, this little bugger is known to aggravate acne and spots!

Don’t Get Stressed – Help Is Here

You might well have heard some people tell you that make-up is a big cause of spots and acne.  It doesn’t cause spots but it wont help them either.  Your skin conditions are ripe all by themselves to give you spots, make-up (especially the heavy or oily ones) will just help block your pores even more.

The list goes on and on, but I have found a great list of what causes acne and you can read more about the causes on this spots and acne site.  It has a lot of good information on dealing with spots and acne and is well worth reading.