Can dandruff shampoo treat hormonal acne? One speaker explains that hormonal acne increases sebum, which feeds yeast growth on the jawline and lower face. The same yeast problem shows up in rosacea around the nose and cheeks.
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Head and shoulders, literally. Is the cure for hormonal acne.
Or was it a fungus? Among us, a lot of people with hormonal acne tend to get oilier, tend to produce more oil along their face, their jawline, their lower face, and even, and this one is often missed, their backs. So with increased sebum production, you tend to have the perfect environment for a yeast to grow. And that's what you guys like to call fungal acne. But this doesn't just happen with hormonal acne. It also happens with people with rosacea. Rosaceous patients tend to get a lot of flaky around their nose, their eyebrows, their cheeks, and even breakouts and blemishes in those areas and their back.