I’ve struggled with acne, both whiteheads and cysts, for most of my life. But it wasn’t until a few years ago that I started experiencing a new kind of acne terror: closed comedones.

“Whiteheads are a type of acne known as a closed comedone, meaning that oil and/or dead skin has blocked a hair follicle or pore and created a closed bump on the skin and they can appear whitish ...

This blockage prevents the normal flow of oil from the sebaceous glands to the skin's surface, causing it to accumulate and ...