What is the best "non-medical" way to get rid of blackheads?

Question

homeopathic, or home-remedy, or just whatever worked for you or somone else you knew!!

Answer 1

Steam facials, clay masks and blackhead remover strips are the best ways I know to remove blackheads.  Steam facials only require a pot of steaming hot water and a towel, and you can do that every day if you like.  Opening the pores will help the skin push them out.  Afterwards, you can scrub your skin with one of the soaps with "bits" as well.  Clay masks and the remover strips will actually tend to pull them out, at least enough for the body to clear the rest of the pore, but you can't use them as often.  A clay mask is really only once a week, more than that will dry the skin and make you breakout worse.  The blackhead remover strips for noses will work anywhere on the body, just sometimes a bit trickier to get them on.   Those are the best, least damaging ways to remove the problems.

Answer 2

Don't squeeze them...it will irritate them and make them red and/or bigger.  Also, the bacteria from your fingers will be on your face if you squeeze them and this will only cause more.  Your best bet is to use a simple cleanser each morning, once a day is sufficient, and also try a hot compress on problem areas at night.  This will help bring them to a head.

Answer 3

The little strip that you can get at a drug store! It was in Princess diaries..its this nose strip that you get wet, and you put it on your nose, and it get's really hard, and you keep it there, and then you rip it off and all the black heads come out! it's amazing!!!

Answer 4

biore strips

Answer 5

try the biore pore strips, the only thing is you got to use them often or else they will come back! I have used face scrubs supposedly for blackheads like from Neutrogena or Clean n Clear but do not notice any difference...The only thing that seems to work for me is the Pore Strips

Answer 6

Use honey mixed with oat meal..Some people use lime juice, almond oil to reduce their black heads or zits.. Tomatoes are best if you can stomach its odor.

Answer 7

Biore strips or St. Ives scrub.

Answer 8

there are these cool strip things you can buy at the grocery store or drug store (i think they are made by biore) and you get them wet and rub them on your nose or cheeks or forhead or chin (whereever you have blackheads) and then peel it off when its dry and it really does help a lot! After using those I usually wash my face with a facewash with beads or the stuff that kind of feels like sand. A lot of different brands make them. And it sloughs off whatever is left. Be careful though, with using all of these because sometimes you can get dry patches on your skin. For some reason my cheeks always get a little dry. If they do, you can always put an oil free facial lotion on those areas. Anyway, hope this helps!

Answer 9

This should help. Rub oatmeal paste on face,leave it to dry for 15 minutes and scrub well before washing off with cold water.  Check out  http://useinfo-blackhead.blogspot.com/ for more useful tips to control blackheads.

Answer 10

squeeze 'em

Answer 11

I used to have bad acne and I quit using the oxy and all that stuff and started using Dial anti bacterial bar soap for my face and It went away fast like a couple of days and I haven't had more than one at a time since. and thats even rare

Answer 12

Take a hot shower, then when you get out they are a lot easier to get rid of.

I get rid of the ones on my nose, chin, and the area by the eyebrows in a way that kind of hard to explain...

I use this little metal tool that I think is supposed to be used to push back your cuticles, and scrape then out.

Just press hard in on spot and you'll see all this gross stuff just pop out.

You can also use a credit card or ID.