Navigation       Home                            Contact                           Link

AMAZONTAGHERE6

 

ARTICLE PREVIEW

How To Select The Best Hammock
Thinking of buying a hammock to relax and unwind? With so many hammocks on offer, it is difficult to decide which one is best. Discover the pros and cons of different types of hammocks and which...read more

How To Get A High ROI In Stock Market Trading
The Return on Investment (ROI) in stock market trading is the profit you make on the sale of a security or other asset divided by the amount of your investment. ROI in stock market trading...read more

How To Make Promotional Postcards Work
Promotional postcards are vital to your business. Moreover, it pays to be meticulous in the phases of postcard creation. There are three phases in the postcard creation. The first is the planning...read more

HOME >> How to Remove Blackheads

 

YOURIMAGEHERE3

How to Remove Blackheads
By Brenda H. Murphy

 

 

The bane of most teenagers existence is pimples. But they may also have another skin problem that will stay with them past the hormonal years, and that's blackheads. These are something that can follow a person for much of their life, because they are related to two common factors of everyday life: oil production in your skin, and dead skin cells.

Contrary to popular belief, blackheads are not the result of dirt accumulating in overly deep pores. The "black" part arises from a combination of dead skin cells and sebum, or oil, although it is actually the skin particles that cause the color.

Unlike pimples, which can be a bacterial infection that turns the skin red and fills a pocket with pus, blackheads are flat spots that have filled with the cells that our skin sheds on a daily basis, and oil from the sebaceous glands. But people will treat them the same as pimples and try to squeeze or pop them to remove the unsightly mark. This is the last thing you should do, as it irritates the skin, and can start an infection under the plug of dirt and oil.

Actual removal of blackheads can be done by a dermatologist who uses a small cylindrical instrument that has a tiny opening that goes over the blackhead. It's pressed on the spot for a few seconds, and the resulting pressure around the edges will help dislodge the plug in the pore.

Prevention is they key to reducing the incidence of blackheads, as some people who have particularly active sebaceous glands, especially on the forehead or along the nose and chin, may have blackheads most of their lives.

While a good soap will help remove the oils on your skin, it doesn't get rid of the dead skin cells. A cleanser with salicylic acid will not only clean surface oil, but will get rid of skin debris that is waiting to clog up more pores. Alpha-hydroxi acid formulas will help to gently exfoliate the dead skin cells so there is less shedding skin left on the surface to sink down into pores.

Glycolic peels are very useful, in that they not only remove dead skin cells, but help loosen and lift some of the clogged material in pores. It may take five or six peels, to see visible results. Generally speaking, a home program of salicylic acid cleansers and glycolic peels is the key to reducing the number of blackheads that you get.

The only time you should not use the peels, is if you are using a topical retinoid, which loosens the blackheads, while speeding up the rate at which dead skin cells are sloughed off. Both of these at once, can cause skin irritation.
About the Author

Visit http://www.LearnHowToRemove.com for a growing library of tips to remove those annoying messes in your life.

Return to HOME to read more articles
 

RSSTAGHERE4

 

COPYRIGHT © 2009-2015 HOW TO - ALL RIGHT RESERVED

 

CLICKBANKBUDDYTAGHERE5