Why do most American Native Indians have oily skin?

My mother and I are both Cherokee and we don’t have this problem. In fact, I’ve never made a correlation between the two and I know a lot of people with American Indian in their blood. Perhaps you just have oily skin and it’s not necessarily due to being Indian.

I believe @Vunessuh is correct.
You’re just “one of the lucky ones.”
Good luck with the wife though, cheers. :D

If you guys are really native American, it is strange that you don’t call yourself ‘native American’ instead of American Indian. Anyway, there shouldn’t be a link between nationality and skin oil content. It’s just you. Try using more lotion.

This is correlation without causation.

I had oily skin and four grandparents from Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania and Poland. Now I, like John, am lucky to have the skin I do at the age I am. As teen-ager, I was always daubing my face with astringent wipes.

I’m from Irish ancestors and I have oily skin. My dad had oily skin. I think oily skin spreads itself around to any color of skin.

Our skin produces sebum. This sebum is mainly made of lipids. The sebum protects us from microbial infections and keeps our skin moist. Along with sebum, we also produce sweat. Our skin also sheds dead skin cells. All these combine and form a layer on the skin. Those who have oily skin, produce more of sebum. Hormones mainly activate the sebum production and some of us are genetically conditioned to produce more oils.

From a purely probabilistic stand point, it is more likely that the oily skin comes from the other ⅔rds, don’t you think?

I have trouble with a question that lumps a group of people together—even if it’s not meant in a hurtful way. “Why do most….” is usually not true, and usually racist or sexist in some way. If you are asking about a problem, why not just claim it as your own?

“ If you guys are really native American, it is strange that you don’t call yourself ‘native American’ instead of American Indian. Anyway, there shouldn’t be a link between nationality and skin oil content. It’s just you. Try using more lotion.”

Uh…. dude idk if you like, graduated highschool or anything lol but it should be general knowledge that ‘indian’ was an incorrect term used by settlers because they thought they were arrived to India. And secondly lotion is meant to hydrate your skin?? It would make it worse..??? These are both things people should generally know but I think you’re just trying to seem cool or something saying someone isn’t ‘special’ I bet.