Skin Oil

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What is it?

Skin oil is a natural oil that is created by sebaceous glands in your skin. Skin oil makes your skin look shiny, feel thick, and also gives your skin a dull color. While this type of oil is a healthy, natural part of your body's every day function, too much oil can be very unhealthy for you skin. Excess oil, or oily skin, causes pimples, acne, and makes your skin look unattractive. Also, with oily skin, you can end up with lots of black heads.

Who Has Oily Skin?

While anyone can have overabundant skin oil, teenagers typically have skin oil due to their hormone imbalance because of puberty. Other people that tend to have oily skin are groups that also are having lots of hormone changes/imbalance like pregnant or menopausal women for example. Some people can have both oily and dry skin depending on the different parts of their body which is known as "combination" skin.

What Causes Oily Skin?

While there are many reasons why people can have oily skin, there are few factors that tend to be the predominate cause:

Family genes. Some families just have oily skin built in them. Families with oily skin has a heredic value will have different generations experiencing the same problems with their skin. For example, your mom has oily skin, your grandmother has oily skin, and so on and so on.
Diet. What you eat definitely impacts the oil production in your skin. If you eat lots of fast food, foods with excess sugar, and other unhealthy foods, you can "sweat" out the toxins and oils in those foods which makes your skin oily (and can cause acne and other skin problems).
Hormones. Those hormones seem to like to ruin every party and that includes the party on your skin. Hormone imbalance from puberty, pregnancy, and menopause can cause your glands to overproduce oil.
Birth control pills. These type of pills tend to play with your hormones which can, once again, mess up the skin oil production.
Humidity and hot weather. Weather can play a major factor in your health and that includes the health of your skin.

Care You Should Know for Skin Oil

When washing oily skin, you should use hot water and soap to help keep your pores from getting clogged. Be careful not to use products which remove the oil from your skin completely (to the point where your skin is dry and flakes) because it will cause your sebaceous glands to work overtime and make your oily skin worse.

When cleaning oily skin, use cleansers that are oil-free so that your skin looks clean and beautiful. Also, when cleaning your skin, avoid cleaning too often. Twice per day is more than enough to keep your skin oil free (clean once in the morning, and once before bed).