What is Blackheads?

Blackheads are the Dirt plug these pores are small, black or white. With blackheads, smooth face look dirty and dull. Blackheads appear due to accumulation of excess oil and dead skin cells. When cleaning the face, blackheads are often overlooked.

There are two types of blackheads:

• open comedones, looks like an enlarged pores and blackened. Blackheads are colored black due to   oxidation by air. 

• closed comedones, was behind the cuticle layer of the clogged dirt and grease, looks like a small lump  under the skin.

Typically, blackheads appear in areas forehead, nose, and chin, also under the eyes and cheeks. Do not remove blackheads by squeezing, because it actually would stimulate a festering pimple that will exacerbate the condition of the face, can even cause infection.

How are blackheads  formed?

Our skin consists of hundreds of small pores. Blackheads appear in the clogged pores. When the sebum, dead skin cells, and bacteria appear slowly on the surface of the skin, the pigment will change color due to oxidation. This is called blackheads.

Therefore, they are yellowish or blackish on the surface of your skin. Blackheads composed of skin cells and sebum produced by sebaceous glands.

Medically blackhead is an open comedo. Have blackheads there are medical problems and need to be treated immediately. Many people think this is a cosmetic problem and can be overcome in a beauty salon. But this is a myth and could cause even bigger problems.

Causes of blackheads:

 Factors that can cause blackheads are:
1. Lack of water in the body.
2. Excess dead skin cells that clog pores opening
3. Face of excess oil production
4. Routine cleaning of the less well where oil is not raised with good facial.
5. Using excessive facial scrub.
6. Using products / makeup that contain too much oil.
7. Medical problems such as indigestion, constipation, overactive oil glands and anemia are the factors that    influence the incidence of blackheads.