We all have skin defects on our bodies; holes, bumps, and spots.
Some of them keep on growing as we age.
Human grooming research proves that most skin imperfections are located at the intersection of two cutaneous folds.

MOLE IN THE BACK

FOLDS CAUSING THE MOLE

Even when the folds can't be seen, you can feel them with your nails.

Your skin is criss-crossed by thousands of horizontal, vertical, and diagonal folds.
Any fold will soon meet another, and every junction creates a fold crossing.

FOLD CROSSING

Epidermis cell formation around a fold crossing

Cutaneous folds are grooves in your skin, and a deep crater is formed where they meet.
Your system considers these deformations as wounds, and it paves the fold crossing over and over with fresh epidermis cells, in a process called superficial cicatrisation; to prevent further damage.
This creates an area of hardened skin all around the cavity in the center.
However, superficial cicatrisation often covers the whole fold crossing; creating a bump or an outgrowth.
Most of these skin deformations can be flattened and removed by using human grooming techniques.

You've often noticed fold crossings on your skin, but you didn't know what they were.
Instead, you've given them one of the following names:

To remove holes, bumps, spots, ... you have to crush them repeatedly with your nail and apply pressure grooming techniques on them.

As soon as you press your nail on an imperfection, you'll feel some hardness inside your skin.
Because it is thickened by several coats of epidermis cells, the skin around these openings is much harder than elsewhere.
As you explore the flaw with your nail; appraise its dimensions and shape.
Your goal is to slowly flatten this hardened structure away.

Use short pressure strokes, 1 second or less, to crush every part of a skin defect.

As you explore and crush a skin imperfection, you'll occasionally fall on a weak spot of its structure.
When you feel that your nail is placed on an unstable location:
• Stay where you are.
• Lengthen your pressure stroke to 10, 20, 30 seconds or more.
• You will feel your nail penetrating deeper and deeper into your skin.

Weak spots in skin structures are mostly located on their highest points, or at the bottom of their lowest pits.

You don't want to spend too much time grooming a particular spot because you may hurt your skin.
For best results; groom an area several times a day for short periods.

When you crush a hardened structure over and over, you feel the skin becoming gradually less tense and more malleable.
If you groom a skin defect every day; its size, thickness and discoloration will continuously diminish.

Grooming your skin is easy, but you'll benefit from following the guidelines you'll find right here on this site.
The best place to start is to watch the "Human grooming rediscovered" video.

Some fold crossings stay open, while others get covered by the epidermis cell production process of superficial cicatrisation.

This leads to three types of skin deformations:
• Holes and cavities,
• Bumps and outgrowths,
• Spots and discolorations.

Large grooves and holes in your skin indicate the presence of cutaneous folds and their crossings.
You're not supposed to see holes or cavities in your skin, except for pores and hair follicles.
Pores are very small and hardly noticeable.
If some pores on your skin have enlarged, it's because they are placed on the path of a fold or a crossing.

Use your nail to open up any hole or valley in your skin.
When you insert your nail into these cavities, you'll notice how hard the skin around them has become.
Push your nail as deeply as you can inside the depression and apply pressure on the bottom, for a few seconds, until you feel that you've crushed part of the hole's structure.
With each grooming stroke that you perform, you want to apply enough pressure that you permanently open up and squash the cavity.
Your goal is to slowly destroy it by repeatedly flattening it with pressure strokes.

Just like cavities, protuberances are caused by underlying fold crossings.
Beneath the mounds, you'll find the meeting of two folds and its usual chimney.
However, cavities have an open chimney, while protuberances have their chimney sealed off by coats of epidermis cells resulting from the wound healing process.
In most cases, the height and size of the bump will keep on increasing all your life.

To get rid of skin outgrowths, lumps and bumps, you'll need to crush them daily with your nail for several months.
No use trying to go too fast, it can only be done with patience and method.
The bulge is made of dozens of layers of living epidermis cells.
When you repeatedly apply pressure on the mound, you damage the upper coat of cells.
The cells die, dry out and flake off in the following days.
After removing several skin layers, you'll notice that the center of the outgrowth is becoming a crater.
Some people may prefer working on bumps and lumps in the evening, and let them heal during the night.

As explained on the Fold crossing theory page, fold crossings grow inwards.
The skin, refolded at the top, is gradually pulled down into the chimney, as it digs deeper and deeper.
Just like the astronomer's black holes, fold crossings attract skin cells into their crater.
The skin gets locally thicker.
Having so many skin cells in one location can create a difference in color between the fold crossing and the neighboring cells.
People pay more attention to the more frequent brown and black spots, but the discoloration can go both ways; paler or darker.

Spots on the skin differ from holes or bumps in that you first have to determine how deep the discoloration is.
To find out, press your nail repeatedly into the spot and gauge how deep your nail goes.
Estimate how thick and wide the problem is with your nail, but for more input; use your eyes or a mirror.
If the coloration is only superficial, you can use superficial grooming techniques, along with pressure strokes.
Some discolored patches can be quite large, so you'll have to groom the whole area and even overlap the regular skin.
You may use several fingers at a time to speed up the process when the space permits.
If the spot is deep, you'll have to crush it away using the same techniques as for holes and bumps (see above).

We've all been told that pimples and blackheads occur inside hair follicles.

ACNE - WIKIPEDIA

However, these illustrations don't correspond to my experience.
Many of my pimples and blackheads were much larger and their content was much greater than what could fit in a tiny hair follicle.
Moreover, some of my pimples and blackheads presented outgrowths in the form of a mound of flesh with an occasional transparent bulging cap.

Immense sebaceous glands simply don't make sense.
The illustrations above may work for mild non-problematic acne, but, in my opinion, many pimples and blackhead are formed inside a much bigger structure; a fold crossing.
Fold crossings serve as containers for blackheads and pimples.

Cutaneous folds and their crossings form caverns; empty spaces where bodily wastes can accumulate.

ACNE INSIDE A PERMANENT SKIN FOLD

At birth, the baby's skin already features several permanent cutaneous folds.
Their number increases each year, forming a grid of interlocking folds.
The size of the body continuously increases during childhood and adolescence, but the size of the cutaneous folds does not.
As a result, the grid of folds keeps on tightening on you, diving deeper and deeper into your skin.
The skin of your whole body becomes strangled by the grid of folds, mostly on the face and at articulations.
Teenagers double in size during a short period.
But, the skin of the face can't expand because of all the folds.
This creates additional pressure on the sebum glands on the face; resulting in acne.

Your face is about six times more folded than your body is.
Coincidentally, there are proportionally six times more sebum glands on your face.
This makes their presence, trapped inside the folds and their crossings, probable.

When I was in my teens, with acne all over my face, I was intrigued by the fact that new pimples often appeared in very similar positions on both sides of my face.
How could different glands, far away from each other, react and form pimples simultaneously?
The fact that these pimples were actually fold crossings explains it all.
The folds created by facial expressions are similar on both sides of the face.

This theory is that some cancers develop inside fold crossings.
In addition to the above-mentioned sebum, pus, serum, sweat and blood, a fold crossing may contain all kinds of compounds: cosmetics, food, soap, dead or sunburned skin cells, insect repellent, ...
These trapped wastes remain in place for years, but, if some crossings are submitted to sudden compressions, they may tear the epidermis and penetrate into the dermis to slowly infect the skin.
The infection has no exit, so it spreads inwards.

This theory works for all external types of cancers such as: skin cancers, breast cancers, anal cancers, mouth cancers, Thyroid cancers, throat cancers, ...
These cancers would, in fact, be fold crossing cancers.
Cancers normally occur in areas of the body where the skin is under more pressure than elsewhere (the melanoma pictured above is positioned between the eye and the ear).

The following observations have guided my thinking;
•The link between acne scars or moles and skin cancer is clearly documented and accepted by the scientific community.
•The lumps in my skin, or nodules, that triggered my grooming adventure are of the kind described in breast cancer early detection tests and in prostate cancer rectal touch examinations.
•I am now experienced at seeing what fold crossings look like on my body and that of others.
I have examined skin cancer photographs.
Not only is the appearance of an epithelioma or a melanoma similar to a crossing, but also its position on the body corresponds to major intersections on the grid of folds.