Adult's acne (post –adolescent acne):

Adult's acne (post –adolescent acne):
Is the Acne that is contracted during adulthood, after eighteen years old. It commonly appears during the early twenties to even late forties and fifties. Women are the ones frequently affected by adult acne. Hormones are the obvious cause of adult acne compared to the teenage variety of acne. However the acne that forms during adulthood comes and goes more easily than the ones contracted during the teenage years.
The appearance of post-adolescent acne differs from that of teenage acne:
Blackheads and whiteheads are less commonly seen.
Breakouts are usually mild to moderate.
Significant scarring is unusual.
Lesions more often appear on the lower cheek, the chin, and along and below the jaw line. Although some women may have breakouts on the chest and back, most have blemishes exclusively on the face.
Papules, or pimples, zits, bumps, pustules, and small nodules are the most common composition of breakouts. Papules are skin inflammatory elevations that are filled with pus. The pustules and papules can be classified as deep or superficial. Superficial papules are those located on the skin surface. The deep papules are described to be palpable, and come from under the skin.
Nodules are described as large papules or cysts. They are firm tender lumps that stay on for several weeks or even months. Luckily, nodules are rarely developed in women with adult acne.
Women with adult acne do not have levels of androgen that are elevated but may have an amplified response to androgen in its normal levels and to progesterone, a female hormone much lower degree. On the other hand, estrogen, another main hormone of females, produces an opposite effect on acne production by depressing its release.