Can anyone advise me on some preperations to help my cat's chin acne please? My Moggie used to suffer from this for around a year and then disappeared overnight, I guess due to her age. We used to just use a soft tooth brush and water to remove the black dirt, but wondered if you can put anything on it to like dry out the pores or something like on us Humans?

What food/water dishes are you using?

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you can get some cream from your vets and try to use stainless steal or ceramic bowls no plastic for anything as this helps harbor bacteria. If you can soak them in Trigene or Safe4 when you clean them.

Iuse Hibiscrub for Alfie and Lola as they can be prone to it.

I get it from Ebay.. mix some Hibiscrub with some warm water and put it on their chins using cotton buds 3 time a day

in a multi cat house hold its difficult even with non plastic bowls. but it does reduce the spread. some is caused by fungal some is caused by bacteria, some is caused by food or contact allergy and some is from stress. you could try eliminating some of these things with change of food, Feliway and changing cleaning solutions. your vet can do a scraping to find out if it's fungal or bacterial and give you some cream for it or antibiotics. you can also use hydrogen peroxide which you can order from your chemist to dry them up. hibi scrub is an anti bac so it's great for keeping it clean and dry.

For anyone thats interested in Cat Acne, here is the info I was given

Feline acne is probably more common than is generally appreciated, as most cases are mild and pass unnoticed. More severe cases, however, may respond slowly to treatment and seriously detract from the appearance of the cat.

Two main types of gland are found in the dermal layer of the skin of the cat - the sweat glands and the sebaceous glands. Most of the sebaceous glands are associated with hair follicles and produce an oily secretion, sebum, which waterproofs the hairs and maintains the suppleness of the skin. In addition, a collection of much larger sebaceous glands are found on the chin, the lips, the dorsal (top) surface of the base of the tail and also the eyelids, prepuce and scrotum. The collection of glands under the skin in the chin area is sometimes referred to as the submental organ and the glands around the base of the tail are known as the supracaudal organ.

The oily secretion of these larger sebaceous glands appears to have a role in territorial marking and cats will repeatedly rub their chin, lips, temporal area and base of tail over certain objects. In time the secretions build up on favourite marking objects and may be seen as black, greasy patches. Cat owners may have noticed that they are 'marked' by their pets on returning home. Cats will also often mark certain objects at feeding time.

Overactivity of the submental organs is a relatively common finding and is seen as excessive greasiness of the overlying fur and skin. This is particularly noticeable on the chin of white or pale coloured cats and appears as a yellow, greasy discolouration. There may also be flecks of black, greasy materialonthe chin which may bemistaken for flea dirt; this is sometimes called 'cruddy chin'