Today we're going to talk about blackheads and how you can naturally get rid of your blackheads.

Now, like I said in many other videos, to fix a problem, you have to understand it.

So I'm going to give you a little understanding, not too much, not too technical, and then we're going to get right into how to fix it.

But not the typical fix where you're trying to fix something from the outside in by doing things on the skin using poor strips, like putting a tape on and ripping it off.

Now, we're not going to go there. I'm going to show you how to fix it from the inside out.

Get to the root cause rather than just keep treating the symptom over and over because you want to ultimately make sure it doesn't keep coming back.

So what is a blackhead? And also what is a whitehead? Okay, they're very similar and they call them comodones. Okay, comodones.

And that comes from the Latin word, which means to eat up, which is the relating to a parasite worm. Okay, because apparently way back when they came up with this name, it looked like a worm.

So comodone comes from the word worm like now the difference between a whitehead, which is called a closed comodone and a blackhead, which is an open comodone, really just boils down to this one thing.

Blackhead, the material that's in the pores, okay, that's black is being exposed to air or oxygen. So it's oxidizing very similar to if you were to cut open an apple and leave it exposed to air.

It's going to turn brown, right? Same exact thing happens in your skin. So a closed comodone, which is a whitehead, is like a little pimple that has a membrane over the white material.

So it's not exposed to oxygen, so it's not going to turn brown or black. So that is the difference.

So what we're dealing with is a clogged hair follicle slash problem with this sebaceous gland, which is the oil gland. So we have this combination of things happening.

This material is a combination of, and you can call it pus, which is oil, bacteria, and keratin, which is a type of protein.

So we have oil, bacteria, and a little bit of protein, and that forms a little plug.

And so what most people do, which is a big mistake is start to over overwash it and try to clean it out, thinking that it's dirt or dirty pores when it is not that it has nothing to do with dirt in your pores.

But not having that knowledge, you might think, wow, yeah, I need to scrub my face more. So they scrub their face, they overwash it, they use cleansers, and they start using this tape or it's called a pore strip where they just put this on their skin and they rip it off or their nose.

And they're trying to pull this stuff out.

The problem is they end up making it worse because they don't realize that there's this layer of friendly bacteria and other microbes living on your skin, that's part of your immune system that's protecting you against the bad bacteria.

And so when you over cleanse or wash the area that you sterilize it, and now you make your skin wide open to becoming infected because we do have a bit of an inflammatory infection going on in these small pores.

So why is this material manifesting? Where is it coming from? What's involved? Well, if you look deeper, there's several things going on.

We have a spike in androgens, okay, and you see this very commonly in puberty. That's why you see a lot of teenagers with blackheads.

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