What used to be a teenage problem brought on by adolescence has now become evident in adulthood as well. And the main cause of adult acne is stress. It is mostly accompanied by inflammation and that is the diva side of it. Most of us hope for the first two types of acne if we ever bump into it, no pun intended, and that comprises of whiteheads and black heads. These can easily be treated with a physical exfoliant otherwise known as a scrub, providing desquamation of the dead skin cells sitting on the stratum corneum (top layer) of the skin. No inflammation is usually present.

Now taking it up a notch as we move onto papules and pustules. These can be slightly sensitive to the touch, and that is because of the inflammation they are accompanied by. They are filled with puss due to the infection in the pore caused by the P-Acne bacteria. They are usually very tempting to squeeze, even when one knows they should not be. Squeezing them causes trauma to the surrounding tissue and will leave the skin with dark spots and cause scarring (post acne scarring) which can only be treated after the breakout has cleared, resulting in a much longer route to clear skin.