I often see breakouts concentrated in the chin and jawline areas. These breakouts tend to be painful, underground cysts. Unfortunately, they don’t always come to a head and are difficult to get rid of.
Chin and jawline breakouts can be attributed to hormonal imbalances n the body. Another potential cause is dairy consumption.
Hormonal shifts can stimulate oil production, which leads to an increase of bacteria getting trapped in pores. This results in sore, painful breakouts, like pustules and cysts. Chin breakouts are most common for females who are between the ages of 21 and 45.
These types of breakouts don’t usually respond to traditional spot treatments. They tend to be bigger blemishes that sit deep within the skin, so traditional spot treatments just dry out the surface and leave a bump underneath. Even if you use traditional spot treatments, cystic breakouts can still last up to 3 weeks and leave marks that linger even longer.
Try removing dairy from your diet. Milk contains proteins that trigger the body to release a hormone 1G1-F, and sugars that cause inflammation. When you eat more dairy than you can digest, it can be excreted through cystic breakouts on the chin and jawline. If no new breakouts occur once dairy has been stopped, this may well be the underlying cause.
Dairy cows are often given growth hormones. Through the consumption of milk, cheese and yoghurt our own endogenous hormones can be affected. These mimic the hormones that affect oil production in the skin, triggering the blemish process.
Also, there are many sebaceous glands in the face. Hormones are fat-soluble, and the body can use these glands to excrete fat-based hormones, especially in the chin and jawline area.
All blemishes are related to bacteria being trapped in pores. Did you know that touching your face all day long, without intentionally doing so, makes your face one of the direst parts of the body? How often do you touch your face or pick at it when thinking? Try to become more conscious of these bad habits so you can break them.
At the very least wash your hands frequently and lease your skin at night to remove any potential breakout causing bacteria. I recommend using a non-drying, sulphate free cleanser with salicylic and lactic acid as Dermalogica Clearing Skin Wash.
Salicylic acid can help keep bacteria out of the pores, and lactic acid soothes and fades post breakout marks.
Just like touching your face, mobile phones can potentially worsen chin and jawline breakouts by transferring bacteria. There is plenty of bacteria on your mobile phone. Make sure to wipe it down daily to avoid making your breakouts worse.
This is important. If you only have breakouts on your chin and jawline, you should only treat these areas with blemish-fighting products. That’s because, if you use drying cleansers, masks and serums over our entire face you are drying out the skin for no reason. It can make the skin on the upper part of your face very unbalanced and unhappy.
Older blemishes in which the infection didn’t properly purge, leaving you with small white-ish, non infected bumps can sometimes contribute to new infections. These are called closed comedones or simply clogged pores. They can continue to get re-infected until they are cleaned out. It is extremely beneficial to get professional facials to clear the blocked pores and remove dead skin cells. This will dramatically help prevent breakouts.
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