It is a recent finding: acne is a concern also to adults, more and more, up to 41% of women aged 25 and more*. The causes: genetics, stress, smoking … but also the use of non suited cosmetics. An inconvenience of many mature skins, this cutaneous disease requires specific cares and draws the attention of cosmetics manufacturers.
An adult woman’s skin is less oily than a teenager’s. Adult women’s acne is prone to appear on the face (on the T-area, cheeks, chin), neck, cleavage and on the back. Be it a first late time or a relapse after teenage, it is frequent, persistent and recurring (especially when linked to periods). The imperfections it produces on the face skin are inflammatory and often give rise to microcysts. Unfortunately, they are unattractive and a cause for scars. Do not forget that, even if the epidermis is sometimes shiny, but sensitive, it needs yet to be moisturized, especially when the first wrinkles appear.
Enhancing factors
They ease the development of spots or blackheads:
•Genetics, from a mother to a daughter, and an increase of the risk of acne if both parents have been affected,
• An unhealthy lifestyle,
•Unsuitable medicine or hormonal treatments (contraception, menopause …),
•An hypersensitivity to hormonal changes (premenstrual flare-ups, pregnancies),
•Stress, a cause for excoriations,
•Cosmetics with too oily, occlusive or aggressive formulae, or badly or too much used (a make-up remover left on the skin, a make-up powder comprising ingredients that favour blackheads …), which ease the rise of folliculitis and blackheads,
•Smoking, which leads …
