Milia can look like white heads that just seem to never go away. Unfortunately, cleanliness isn’t the problem. The skin’s ability to naturally exfoliate is. Milia are white bumps that form when skin cells become trapped rather than exfoliated naturally. The trapped cells become tiny cysts that appear like white beads below the surface of the skin. The tiny cyst may resolve on its own or intervention to remove the cyst may offer more rapid resolution