How do you get pimples?
In the skin there are some glands that produce fats called sebum. Tallow is helping to protect your skin. At puberty there is a lot of changes with your body. It produced, among other things many hormones and these hormones make it produce extra amount of sebum, especially in the face, shoulders and upper chest. So you get fatter skin during puberty. If the suet does not come out on the skin's surface, forming a kind of stopper, a blackheads. Blackheads are small white or black dots. The skin of all people, there is bacteria. If the bacteria and sebum "connects" in blackheads, it becomes inflamed. The area becomes red and sore, and you get a pimple.
Who gets acne?
* Nearly all young people get acne at one time or another - some have many, some are just a few. Some families are more attacked by acne than others.
* Some girls get more acne in the period up until they get their period. This is due to the formation of many extra hormones in this period.
* Stress and anxiety can aggravate acne attacks, and if you are nervous and stressed, may you squeeze more than usual. Thus pimples bigger, redder and sorer. Excessive dieting, especially in girls, may increase the pimple problems, and some will also find that a lot of training also may provide some increased acne problems
Boys often have more pimple problems than girls since there is a correlation between the increased amount of testosterone, the male sex hormones and increased sebum production in skin.