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Skin Care Tips: How to Ditch Blackheads for Good
Follow this step-by-step skin care guide to rid your oily skin of stubborn blackheads to have clear skin -- finally
If you follow the steps and still don't see results …
Don't pick! Instead make your way to your nearest esthetician. Bratschi says, "often people use too much pressure or just push more dirt in to [pores], further inflaming them, not to mention cross contaminating other areas of the skin. It can also lead to scarring, hyperpigmentation and broken capillaries -- all of which are difficult to later fix." If you squeeze a blackhead and it "turns into a giant scar, it can cost you thousands of bucks to fix it. So it's much better getting someone for 30 bucks to clean up all the blackheads and call it a day," adds Lancer. Blackhead removal is "best treated by a professional where the skin is prepped correctly, extracted correctly and importantly, treated afterwards to both stop inflammation and prevent them [from] re-occurring," says Bratschi. Plus, professional grade products are stronger, more active and therefore more effective, and steam can be a vital tool in opening up those pores for deep extraction of those hard to shift blackheads. Speaking of professional products, an in-spa or office peel is a great way to "increase cell turnover and prevent blocked pores which help to leave the skin clear and decongested," says Bratschi, so you may want to consider one.SEE NEXT PAGE: At-home blackhead-removing doohickeys -- gimmicky or genius?
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