3. Bacterial colonies living on your skin and in your sebaceous conducts
Some people are surprised to find out how many bacteria live on and inside our body, and even more to discover that many of them are good for us, and without them, we wouldn’t be able to live. They do things like eating substances and helping transform them into something else, fermenting and processing food, regulating the pH of certain parts of our body, cleaning it from undesired biological waste, and many other functions.
We have many bacteria living on the surface of our skin, and they eat some of the oil that we produce naturally. As you can imagine, they love sebaceous glands because they eat the oil, they are like fast food restaurants for bacteria. Just as everything else in the body, health is about balance, and if we have too many or too few bacteria there can be problems. In the case of acne, if you have too many bacteria, they can accumulate in your pores and obstruct them.