Skin Care Beauty Hub

by Ananda Mahony


If your skin is congested or you have clogged pores and blackheads there are a number of steps you can take to reduce these effects. Firstly, it is good to understand why your skin becomes congested. Each 3 or 4 weeks the skin replenishes the skin cells. This natural process creates a layer of dead skin cells over the surface of the skin. If not removed, the dead skin cells create dull looking skin. The other thing that may happen is that the dead cells will plug the pores on your face and create congestion and blackheads. When combined with excessive sebum production, this can lead to the formation of white-heads and pimples.

The medical name of a blackhead is open comedo and it is a bump or plug associated with acnes or acne vulgaris. This bump or plug in the skin will be blackish or yellowish in color and is caused when the oil and dead cells trapped inside the skin pores are exposed to air. Black heads are common on people having oily and greasy skin and they are the major cause of acnes. When these blackheads get infected by bacteria, they become acnes. Here are some causes for the occurrence of blackheads.