blackheads??

MrsTinks

flufff wrote:

Sorry I'm gross.My partner gets them occasionally on his back.I remove them for him n pluck odd errant hair....
Sure I'm not only one lol,only one to confess rofl

I "fess" up to that one too I take a sadistic kinda pleasure from causing him pain

System

AlisonW wrote:

I dont know if this is true, but I remember reading somewhere years ago that some beauty therapists use clay cat litter for face masks, its made of the same stuff a fullers earth apparently. Never tried it myself, but I do remember using the fullers as a teen. ( once apon a time many years ago ):o

Fullers Earth isnt that easy to come by these days. Ive looked.:mad: The best purifier i ever tried on my oilier patches was made with Fullers Earth and it cost me £8 a time.

mossstar

I use an 'asprin mask' when i feel i need a bit of a scrub up! Just crush some asprins (cheap generic ones) up and mix with some kind of carrier to make a paste - i use honey or face cleanser, and leave on. Asprin is a form of salicylic acid which is used in acne medications etc. to break down blackheads.

I looked into whether i could somehow absorb the asprin through my skin but apparently it's really common to use them in this way, and you don't, and anyway I only use about 4!

When I don't have the time for that i just mix a bit of bicarb into my usual cleanser as a scrub!

x

http://www.acne.org/rate_item.php?item_id=75

jo101_2

Hi

What a great thread, I have always had terrible blackheads especially all over my nose (yuk) and have tried all sorts and was about to splash out on some expensive stuff to have another go, but thanks to you guys I am off to try the MoM right now and will also try the other tips too. I think I will just do one side of my nose tonight to compare in the morning (weird - probably!!!)

Thanks again

Jo

Nix143

Me too jo101 - I have really open pored skin and so my nose in particular always looks speckled - something that would at least break them down and pull out the dirt would be great as nothing really works

Ewwww, I sounddirty, but open pores are a nightmare. Does anyone have any OS tips for dealing with them?

cabra1

I have always had loads of blackheads
on my face tried all sorts.
Until the strips came out
I got the Loreal ones,it took about four goes
over the space of about 5 weeks.All gone
I have kept a couple of boxes and when
ever i get the odd one I open one of the packs up
cut a patch big enough to cover it and
get rid of it.Its amazing what those
strips take away.

QueenB.

I really like this tip and as i always have a bottle of MoM in my medicine cabinet it will be the perfect penny saving way to deal with the little blighters.:D

mossstar

When i read this thread this morning i remembered that on another site I sometimes go on (where I found out about the asprin masks) the people on there had been talking about making their own pore strips... so i just checked!

It's american, this other site, and the recipe is 1 teaspoon unflavoured gelatin and 1 teaspoon milk. Mix and microwave for 10 secs to slightly warm (i'd just use warm water in a bowl or something since we don't have a microwave). Apply to nose and chin and allow to dry, the mixture will harden to a 'film', peel off and gunk should come with it.

On the site they were discussing how they do the asprin mask FOLLOWED by pore strips and the amazing results they were getting... but i haven't tried the pore strips at all so maybe anyone who is brave enough should try a little patch first!!

I find that the asprin mask, as well as getting rid of the blackheads, really takes the 'redness' out of any pimples (which I tend to get at that TOM) and heals them really fast. The asprin stays quite gritty, so as well as disolving the bh's it acts as a scrub as well).

If anyone IS brave enough to experiment, let us know how it goes!!!

Steph

voodoozoe

16011996 wrote:

still using the momg, a couple of girls at work have asked what i have een using as my skin is so much clearer. oooh said one, i'd never do that, i only use loreal. nice if you can afford it, but face still not as clear as mine and purse a lot emptier said i. so there. thanks cathy, my skin looks fab.

How many times did you use it before noticing a big difference??? I couldn't find any until yesterday but tried some out of date Maalox last week:eek: ...I figured out if you swallowed it, it wouldn't kill me to put it on my face and it did contain magnesium something or other which I figured was the important ingredient!!!

I only left it on half an hour while I had a bath and it seemed to bring some tough ones to the surface so I could squeeze 'em easier but didn't ELIMINATE them as such. I am looking forward to using the proper stuff now:D and smelling minty instead of lemony.

Thanks for the tip cathy:T

freyaluck

flufff wrote:

Sorry I'm gross.My partner gets them occasionally on his back.I remove them for him n pluck odd errant hair....
Sure I'm not only one lol,only one to confess rofl

And me oh the shame:o :rotfl:
will get some milk of magnesia today, sick of the old mask looking like the moon:p