Acne

Known to be the most common skin condition, acne occurs due to your pores becoming clogged with dead skin, sebum, and bacteria. Most of the time, people who have excessively oily skin have to deal with acne. There are various type of acne:

Types of Acne	Description
Blackheads	These are open comedones where the hair follicle is exposed.
Whiteheads	These are closed comedones where the hair follicle is not detected.
Papule	This type of acne is formed when a comedone is inflamed leading to the creation of a red bump.
Pustule	Papules become pustules. This type of acne occurs when a comedone is filled with white pus and has a red ring surrounding it. Pustles can leave acne scars.
Nodule	This type of acne occurs under the skin. They are large, red, and hard inflamed comedones.
Cyst	Similar to nodules except they contain pus. They are also large and red.

At Laser Genesis, we offer a variety of treatments that not only targets acne but also aids in other skin conditions such as hyperpigmentation and dehydration.

There are some simple first steps that can help with minimizing the acne:

Change the towel and pillow cover every day.
Keep the hair away from the affected area.
Clean your cell phone with anti-bacterial cleaner regularly
Don’t touch the affected area.
Drink plenty of water to flush out the toxins
Salicylic acid in the skin products help to dissolve the dirt build up that cause’s acne
Never, never, never try to pop a pimple, it just makes it worse, and we all know it.