During puberty, the skin of adolescents becomes more vulnerable and often acne occurs on its surface. They cause discomfort, both to boys and girls. In addition to the unaesthetic appearance of the skin, acne can be painful and can leave behind pigment spots or scars. On the treatment of various types of acne and about when it is required to help a qualified specialist, we will discuss in this article.
Types of Acne
Acne is the result of plugging and subsequent inflammation of the sebaceous ducts of the skin. They are different:
- open comedones;
- closed comedones;
- acne.
Open comedoes, more known to teenagers as black dots, are the result of blockage of pores, not only secretions from the sebaceous glands, but also keratinized skin cells.
Closed comedones look like small tubercles of whitish color. These are the most clogged channels of the sebaceous glands, which temporarily do not have an outlet to the outside.
Acne is an inflamed comedo of both an open and a closed type. Inflammation is accompanied by painful sensations and after a rupture of a pimple on the inflamed area of a skin small or large cicatrixes, and also pigmentary stains can remain.
How to treat teenage pimples?
The type of treatment for adolescent acne is determined by the degree of severity of the disease. So, if half of the face has a maximum of 10 acne, treatment for them in adolescents can be done with improvised home remedies. In the case of more pimples, the decision on how to deal with teenage pimples is taken by a dermatologist.
How to get rid of teenage pimples?
To get rid of acne and comedones, adolescents use specialized means to care for problem skin or folk remedies.
Acne Makeup for Teens
Care for problem skin primarily involves daily cleansing, in the morning and in the evening. For this, special gels for washing and tonics are perfect. Rubbing the face with a tonic or lotion, the teenager should wipe the skin twice at a time, changing the cotton swab. Lotions and gels will help with time to get rid of black spots.
Creams and gels for pimples for teenagers are aimed at drying the inflamed skin and removing the inflammation itself. They are suitable for the treatment of closed comedones and acne.
If there are many means to eliminate acne in stores, then fighting with closed comedones requires a more narrow approach. Help to get rid of them can be in beauty parlors. If this is not possible, you should use such means as zinerit or skinoren. After a few months of using these drugs, the skin, in places of closed comedones, becomes thinner and the fat that is collected in the ducts of the glands, more easily comes out.
Treatment of teenage pimples with folk remedies
Treatment of acne folk remedies assumes the same principles as cosmetic treatments: cleansing the skin and relieving inflammation.
The means of prevention and treatment of teenage acne are lotions.
- Decoction of chamomile. Cooled decoction of chamomile should be wiped face twice a day. Chamomile is a proven effective remedy for teenage pimples, as it removes acne inflammations.
- Cucumber infusion. Four tablespoons of grated cucumber should be poured over with boiling water and insist. When the water cools, infusion should be filtered and wiped them face twice a day.
- Salicylic acid. Cotton swabs should be soaked in salicylic acid and wipe their face. In order not to cause damage to the skin, only 1% solution is needed.
Scrubs help to clean the skin of adolescents from keratinized cells. Scrubs can be used only in the absence of inflamed patches on the face. As a scrub is most often used ground coffee beans.
To remove inflammation and additional care for the problem skin suitable masks for adolescents from acne.
- Cottage cheese mask. A tablespoon of cottage cheese should be mixed with the same amount of lemon juice or grapefruit. To the mixture
you can add a pinch of salt. Ready curd mass should be applied to the face for 10 minutes, and then washed off. The mask dries the fat skin and nourishes it. - Mask from the tincture of calendula. A tablespoon of tincture of marigold should be mixed with a tablespoon of flour and diluted with boiled water to the state of thick sour cream. The resulting mass should be applied to the face for 15 minutes, and then rinse with water. This mask is effective for relieving inflammation.
- Honey and egg mask. A tablespoon of honey should be mixed with a mashed egg yolk and a spoonful of olive or castor oil. The mass should be applied to the face for 15 minutes and washed off with warm water. The mask perfectly nourishes the skin and relieves inflammation.