Remove Blackheads And Pimples

Removing Blackheads

First, wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water. Then soften the black heads and open up the pores by either of two methods. One way is to hold your head over a bowl of steaming water for a few minutes. Another is to apply hot compresses to the affected area. Dip face washers into water that is as hot as your hands can bear and then wring the washers out. Place them onto blackheads and leave them until the washers have cooled down.

Make sure you are working in good light so that you can see exactly what you are doing. Now wrap your fingers in tissues, and with your forefingers and not your nails, gently squeeze on either side of blackhead. If the plug has sufficiently been softened it should come out. If the blackhead won't come out easily, leave it for another time because the more you squeeze, the more irritated your skin becomes and you will cause more problems.

Once you have finished squeezing, wipe over the area with a cotton ball dabbed with astringent or with few drops of fresh lemon juice.

Treating Pimples

If bacteria mixes with the trapped sebum, the pressure builds up so that the wall of the follicle bursts and the surrounding area becomes irritated and inflamed. The result is pimple.

The small white area that forms on top is due to the action of the body's white blood cells which march in to inflammation. Only try removing a pimple this white head, which is pus, appears because it indicates that the infection is still in the lower layer of skin and squeezing will spread the infection.

To remove a pimple that has formed a head, follow the same method as that for removing black heads, remembering to keep your hands scrupulously clean and to use fresh tissues for each blemish so as to avoid spreading infection to other parts of the face