Know How to Manage Damaged Pores by Blackheads

Through daily cleansing - Pores minimizing daily pore care Steps

Here are some face cleansing tips and steps.

• Step 1:
  To manage your pores, open your pores by splashing your face using warm water or covering your face with a steamed towel.
• Step 2:
  Wash your face with enough foam cleanser. Gently rub your face as you massage your face. Carefully wash on the T-zone spots where sebum secretion is excessive.
• Step 3:
  Tighten pores right after cleansing opened pores. Gently pat you face using a pore specialized toner.
• Step 4:
  Provide moisture. Moisture is essential even for oily skin type. Apply lotions or essense that tightens pores as you massage your face

Tips for men with enlarged pores:
Ice massage is good for busy men. Gently rub your face using a cloth wrapped ice pieces for about 2 minutes. If you apply around T-zone spot where sebum secretion is excessive, you can benefit from pore minimizing and soothing effects.

Warning: Too cold temperature might damage your skin. Also there are wrong facial cleansing methods, so be sure that you are doing it properly

Special Cares for Pore Management: 1-2 times a week is required

• Pore management 1.
  Open pores. In order to eliminate excessive sebum in pores, open pores using a steamed towel or steam from hot water.
• Pore management 2.
  Cleanse thoroughly. Cleanse your face using a foam cleanser that contain pore minimizing effective ingredients.
• Pore management 3.
  It is very good for eliminating wastes and impurities in pores at least 1-2 times a week. Remove impurities in pores with deep cleansing, exfoliating products or by using packs or masks. If you have too much blackheads or whiteheads on yo nose, it is recommended to use nose packs.
• Pore management 4.
  After removing wastes in your pores, wash your face throughly in order to also remove cleansing or facial pack products remained in your skin. Then splash your face with cold water and tighten your pores.
• Pore management 5.
  After using a facial mask, always apply essence or toner in order to provide moisture. Using a cotton ball, gently rub you face as you massage.

Facial packs beneficial for pore management

▶Tomato juice pack:

Tomatoes contain organic acid and vitamin A & C thus they are good for acne prone skin type and oily skin. It is especially effective for removing blackheads around nose.
1. 5 Tsp of tomato juice and 1/2 tsp seaweed powder mix together and apply on your face.

▶Green tea pack:

Green tea contained vitamin B, C and chlorophyll cleanse blood and tannin acid in green tea is good for skin astringent activity, anti-bacteria and destroying bacteria activities thus beneficial for acne prone skin type.
1. Add 3 Tsp of water into 1Tsp of green tea powder, mix and wait for 5 minutes.
2. Soften starch with water and mix until it becomes elastic.
3. Apply on your acne prone areas and clean after one hour.

3 Organic Facial Masks for Tightening Pores

Organic facial mask 1: Apple Scrubs

Ingredients: 1/4 apple, 1t lemon juice (squeezed from real fruit), 1 egg white
Direction:
Using an electric grinder, mix peeled-cut apple, lemon juice and egg white together. Apply apple scrubs on washed face. After about 10 minutes, gently massage with water and rinse off clearly.

Organic facial mask 2: Carrot-Seaweed powder Facial Masks

Ingredients: 1/4 carrot, 20g (0.7oz) seaweed powder
Direction:
Grind 1/4 carrot and add seaweed powder. On your clean face, apply the facial masks for about 20 minutes and thoroughly rinse off.

Organic facial mask 3: Green tea Facial Masks

Ingredients: 1T green tea powder, 1 egg white, some flour
Direction:
After dissolving green tea powder in water and mix with egg white and flour, apply the elastic facial masks on your skin. After 10 minutes, rinse off your face.

You can find out alternative green tea facial masks in "Green Tea Skin Care Benefits."

Tips:
After applying these organic facial masks on your face, make sure to cleanse thoroughly in order to prevent any remained ingredients in pores from causing enlarged pores.

How to Manage Enlarged Pores

Just by observing someone's behavior of looking at mirror, we can tell whether the person concerns about his/her skin. People with no skin problems just look at their overall facial condition. However, people with skin problems draw their face closer to a mirror.

One of the main reasons of enlarging pores is sebum. Excessive sebum secretion accumulates wastes and impurities in the entrance of pores and sebum secretion becomes inactive and make pores larger. Thus, people with greater amounts of sebum have larger pores. People with Oily skin type tend to have larger pores than people with dry skin.

1. Through cleansing is the basis to manage pores.

The best method to prevent pores from being larger is to make an environment where wastes cannot easily accumulate in pores. In order to do so, through cleansing is the basis. Before washing your face using a foam cleanser, cleanse your face using warm water first then foam cleanse afterward.

2. Cold Packs tightens pores

You can use cold packs to tighten your pores. However, if you have a sensitive skin, be careful when using cold packs since these may irritate a capillary. The best way to do this is to soak a cloth or towel in water and keep it in a refrigerator and then apply on your face.

3. Maintain healthy pores with massages

Massages is good for maintaining elastic skin and for preventing pores from enlarging. While washing you face or applying cosmetics, patting your face using fingers is a good massage.

4. Healthy lifestyle for healthy pores

People with beautiful skin tend to maintain balanced life style. First of all, they go to bed early and are early risers. These people have elastic skin with tightened pores because their skin has less tiredness compared to people staying up late or have irregular lifestyles. Less tired skin prevents fine wrinkles, freckles and pores from enlarging. In addition, alcohol and smoke are two greatest enemies against pores. Alcohol and smokes promotes sebum secretion and causes enlarged pores.

5. Pay attention to acne management

Pimples or acnes are symptoms of enlarged pores. Due to pimples and acnes, blackheads and dark spots appear in pores as well. Therefore, stop squeezing out your pimple and go see your doctor or receive a professional treatment. In addition, oriental facial mask sheets are effective in removing blackheads (They are hard to find in the states though).

It is a natural process that our skin becomes inelastic and pores become bigger as we age. Gravity makes our skin sagging and wastes and impurities accumulated during days and nights cause skin problems and help pores enlarge. Although we cannot go against this natural process, we can slow down the aging of the skin by managing our skin with skin cares. The effort to maintain your youth is an expression of loving yourself and valuing yourself.