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Acne infections damage collagen and elastin fibers, sever the microvascular network and harm and kill cells. When healing happens, and an acne injury is not adequately treated, a scar is left in the skin. The healthy skin is thus replaced by a scar.

Acne is a complex ailment that depends basically on:

A) increased sebum secretion in conjunction with

B) toxins within your skin due to the intake of protein of poor quality.

The above mentioned elements get deposited by your lymph system and placed under the skin. There they absorb moisture from the outer layer of the skin making it feel dry. The build-up produces excess pressure on the glandular ducts keeping sebum from evacuating freely which in turn creates a rich feeding ground for bacteria and inflammation.

Anything that causes excessive water retention within your skin can pinch off the sebaceous glands within your skin and make you break out sebum where acne bacteria will grow, in minutes, especially if you are going through a period of high sebum production. Excess salt and spices are the most common triggers, so if you eat too many potato chips you're exposing yourself to the high possibility of acne breakouts.

Heat destroys and/or changes essential nutrients. New damaging substances are formed in all animal or vegetable foods that are heated. Dietary protein is partially altered in the preparation process. Protein molecules react with dietary carbohydrates, forming new molecules. This mechanism is called "the Maillard reaction", and the same happens to peptides because of simple oxidation.

Stomach enzymes break protein amino acids, only if the targeted portion of the protein matches what the enzyme is programmed for. If the targeted amino-acids have mutated due to heat there is no breakage. The un-separated amino-acid chains are carried by the lymph network, at a much lower rate than by blood. And such cargo of Maillard reaction and oxidized peptide by-products is poured into the skin so that the lymph can reach the digestive tract and the liver to pick up new cargo of essential nutrients that it transports for use by the body's organs.

Cooked proteins transform into damaged peptides not absorbed into your blood stream but disposed off by your lymphatic network. And end up in the inner layer of your skin catching moisture and compressing your sebaceous glands to the point of blocking them, and thus pimples are formed.