Causes of adult acne – Why, after all these years

Causes of adult acne – Why, after all these years?

Adult acne seems like the most unreasonable thing that mother nature can throw at you as you move into your late twenties and thirties. 

As trade-offs go, having to hold down a job and pay bills is probably a fair price to pay for not having your teen acne bringing you down. But then adult acne shows up and all of a sudden you have the worst of both worlds. 

What is going on? Your voice broke years ago, you aren’t getting any taller and you’ve stopped blushing at the most inopportune of times. So why are you all of a sudden dealing with blackheads and zits again? 

The chances are that you fall into one or more of three categories. The main three causes of adult acne are hormones, stress and genetic predisposition. 

Hormonal imbalances can be caused by a number of different factors, some of which are environmental and others which are down to more specific factors. Either way, it can trigger a case of acne. Alternatively you may be experiencing a great deal of stress in the workplace or in your personal life. 

Stress causes the overproduction of stress hormones, which are a guaranteed way of causing acne. Finally, genetics are known to play a part in causing adult acne – if your parents, or one of them, were prone to it then you may well be too. 

In fact, if even one of your parents was a sufferer of adult acne, the chances that you will be as well quadruple. Hardly fair, is it?