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Acne: Acne is the term for plugged pores (blackheads and whiteheads), 

pimples and even deeper lumps (cysts or nodules) that occur on the face, 

neck, chest, back, shoulders and even the upper arms. The sebaceous 

glands lie just beneath the skin’s surface. They produce oil called sebum, 

the skin’s natural moisturizer. These glands and the hair follicles within 

which they are found are called sebaceous follicles. These follicles open 

onto the skin through pores. At puberty, increased levels of androgens (male 

hormones) cause the glands to produce too much sebum. When excess 

sebum combines with dead, sticky skin cells, a hard plug, or comedo, forms 

that blocks the pore.
Acne Vulgaris: The medical term for common acne; inflammatory disease of 

pilosebaceous glands
Comedones: Uninfected sebaceous plugs impacted within follicles, the 

signature of noninflammatory acne. Comedones appear as whiteheads or 

blackheads. Whiteheads (closed comedones) are flesh-colored or whitish 

palpable lesions 1 to 3 mm in diameter; blackheads (open comedones) are 

similar in appearance but with a dark center.
Hair Follicle: A sac from which a hair grows and into which the sebaceous 

(oil) glands open. The follicle is lined by cells derived from the epidermal 

(outside) layer of the skin.
Mild Acne: Several inflamed pimples - red in color. Less than 20 whiteheads/

blackheads or less than 15 inflammatory red pimples or less than 30 total 

pimples not all inflamed.
Moderate Acne: Many inflamed pimples - red in color - and pustules 

(visible accumulation of pus in skin) 20-100 whiteheads/blackheads or 15-50 

inflammatory (red in appearance) lesions (pimples) or 30-125 total lesions not 

all inflamed.
Neutral pH Cleanser: The pH of solutions range from a value of 1 to a value 

of 14. Cleansers with a pH of 7 are neutral. Cleansers with a pH above 7 are 

alkaline. 
NSAID: Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. These are drugs with 

analgesic and antipyretic (fever reducing) effects. 
Photosensitivity: Cutaneous reaction to sunlight probably involving the 

immune system. It may be due to an unknown cause or occur after exposure 

to certain drugs or chemicals, and it is sometimes a feature of systemic 

diseases.
Severe Cystic Acne: Many nodular cystic lesions (with signs of scarring). 

Scarring occurs when new skin cells are laid down to replace damaged cells.