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Your skin's built-in oil rig, pumping moisturizer it never asked your permission to install.
means The waxy, oily substance secreted by glands in your skin to lubricate and waterproof hair and skin.
from Straight from Latin sebum, meaning tallow or grease — the same fat your ancestors rendered into candles.
OverproductionExcess sebum clogs pores and feeds acne.
First coatNewborns arrive slathered in sebum-rich vernix.
CompositionTriglycerides, wax esters, and squalene mixed together.