Scientists have discovered that lacking fatty acids and hypercornification may be common causes of acne breakouts. Lesions caused by acne are physical changes in the skin triggered by a disease process that occurs in the sebaceous follicle. It is crucial to find a natural solution that will balance out the elements needed to restore the body and skin's dignity.

Typical acne lesions are comedones and can be categorized in two areas. Blackheads, which are opened comedones, are follicles that have wider pores than normal. These are filled with plugs of sebum and dead skin cells. An oxidation of melanin occurs due to a chemical reaction triggered when the plugs come into contact with air. A dark or black color of the material within the follicle is a result of this process.

Closed comedones (whiteheads) are follicles filled with the same material, but with only a tiny opening. The air cannot reach the material in the follicle and therefore does not oxidize.

These are the two most common types of acne that affect more than 80% of teenagers and adults. Such lesions can effectively be healed by using natural acne treatments.

Are acne lesions developed by hypercornification?

One of the common characteristics that causes the physical process of an acne lesion is the hypercornification of the follicle wall. In the skin cell, the follicle walls of the inner cone- shaped area of comedones have a clogged cornified layer. The complex cells of this layer have more dense cell membranes and their cellular integrity is maintained by layers of keratinized cells consolidated together. This is dissimilar to the nature of cells found in regular follicles, which lose their integrity when sloughed off as individual or smaller units of cells. This hypercornification produces the outgrowth of the 'horny' plug, which is shaped inside the follicle channel.

A high sebum secretion has commonly been documented in patients with acne. This chemical process has however not been directly associated with comedogenesis. A deficiency of linoleic acid in the patients' skin surface has also been revealed. The examination showed that the linoleate density in human sebum depends on the amount of linoleic acids existing in each sebaceous cell at the commencement of its differentiation, and the level to which this initial charge is diluted by subsequential endogenous lipid synthesis in each sebaceous cell. The result holds that low densities of linoleate in sebum impose a state of necessary fatty acid deficiency on the cells of the follicular epithelium and generate the characteristic response to hyperkeratosis.

Results have concluded that it is extremely important to restore the body's natural balance in order to have healthy looking skin. The fatty acids (Linoleic acids) are necessary in preventing the appearance of acne lesions and efficiently keep the balance required to arm you against breakouts.