Women with oily skin will attest to the fact that oily skin often makes it hard to apply makeup. In addition to being, well, greasy, oily skin can feel rough because of enlarged pores that often are horny and impacted (keratotic), making things even harder. This post is about the relationship between oil production and [...]
If you ever wondered what other things Nobiletin can do, this post is for you. As it turns out, Nobiletin also has several other important beneficial properties. This post illustrates these, and you will find that this compound has the potential for great future medical applications …
How to tell whether your oily skin is interfering with your life Anybody who has the misfortune to suffer from it will be able to attest to the fact that having oily skin can cause a substantial psychological drain and have a significant impact on quality of life, happiness, self confidence and general well-being. It [...]
As promised, here is a follow-up post to the acne viewpoint paper that was published in Experimental Dermatology (Ref 1) . This paper was published very recently and summarizes the state-of-the-art of our knowledge about acne. This post explains recent insights in the way sebocytes recognize and respond to bacteria. Sebocytes are more than skin [...]
Acne develops when bacteria, in particular Propionibacterium acne, infect the oil (sebum) that accumulates inside plugged hair follicles. See the post on the “skinny on acne“ for more details. But the question is: how and why exactly do the hair follicles get plugged? The answer is found in one of the properties of the bacteria [...]
New Viewpoint Paper on Acne An awesome new paper on current understanding of the causes of acne and how it can be treated was recently published in Experimental Dermatology (1). This is like a consensus paper that was written by 14 scientists from all over the world — USA, Japan, China, Germany, Taiwan, Hungary, Italy, [...]
