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A three-step routine needed to clear your skin from blackheads.

Are you a fellow blackhead suffer? Do you blackheads that has been sitting on your face for years and just seem to get worse, when you ask friends and family, they reply with it’s not that bad, you can hardly even see it. However, every time you look in the mirror, all you can see are blackheads all over your face, they ruin all your photos, your makeup looks and don’t even bother standing in the sun just so it can highlight every single last one of them.

People always offer their best products, swearing by it, but most of the time, the products are bested suited foro spots, blackheads are a whole different ball game.

Blackheads are old and dirty oil on our face (don’t quote me on that) or in other words smelly sebums.

I have been through all types of skin care with short lived success or no success at all, because, the one thing that these are focused on are, active acne/spots or on the surface blackheads. Of course, deep rooted blackheads need a professional to fully remove them but some of these are expensive and sometimes you can’t justify needing to spend that much just for facial treatments

This is not an exception to your 10 step Korean skin care routine (or your however many step routine), this can be in addition to it (Oh joy!!). I realised that after many years of having deep blackheads, they simply wont leave you regardless of how expensive your skin care is, you must go finding them and digging them out (take that mental image for free).

The three steps are; Steam, clear and cool

Steam – you can steam with clear hot water, Himalayan salt or your preferred steam minerals, or a hot towel.

Clear – there are many no-no advices involved in self clearing, of course there are many unpleasantries involved with this, but if you want to clear your blackheads quicker, this is the best way. You can use your hands or tools which you can access cheaply on Amazon or eBay 

Cool – You’ve cleared as much as you can and now your pores are pretty bruised and open and possibly you’ve annoyed your skin so much that there is more oil production than normal, so those pores need closing pronto and this is where that cold water deep in the middle of winter is not looking good. Once you cool your face down, you can now continue your however many steps routine past the cleansing steps.