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How to Get Rid of Zits

November 21st, 2009 by admin
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OMG, a Zit on My Face! Well, There Goes My Sex Life!

zits Throughout history, a face full of acne has been a self-imposed death sentence on dating. At about age 12, just when boys and girls are starting to get really interested in each other, their faces sprout technicolor pimples, and they stick around for five years or more – which feels like forever. (Some people do have it forever.) Medical science doesn’t have a clue as to what causes it. Acne comes in a number of forms. The most common type, Acne Vulgaris, may be mild or moderate and feature blackheads, whiteheads, papules, or pustules. nodules, or cysts:
  1. Whiteheads: Pores get completely blocked by sebum (oil), bacteria, and dead skin cells. The combination looks white on the skin’s surface. Though these things are tempting to squeeze, it’s generally better to leave any kind of acne eruption untouched. But if you must squeeze or pop one, make certain your hands are clean and that you mop the site afterward to remove any residue. The bacteria inside any kind of pimple can spread infection to create new pimples nearby. It helps to use a sterile needle to nick a pimple before squeezing it with sterile gauze pads.
  2. Blackheads: When a whitehead is only partially blocked, contents slowly drain to the surface, where the natural pigment in the dead skin cells reacts with oxygen to turn black.
  3. Papules: Red, tender bumps with no head.
  4. Pustules (the classic zit): An inflamed red circle with a white or yellow center.
Severe Acne vulgaris displays nodules, large, hard bumps under the skin's surface, and cysts, nodules filled with pus.

Which Acne Treatment To Choose?

physicianSevere acne of any type, including Acne Rosacea, which usually occurs over the age of 30, Acne Conglobata, Acne Fulminans, Gram-Negative folliculitis, and Pyoderma Faciale should be treated by a physician. Anti-bacterials and other medications needed to treat some of these require a physician’s prescription. Over the years, various creams, ointments, washes, pills, and dietary treatments have been tried in the battle against acne. They have included Retin-A, sulfur, 2% salicylic acid pads, clindamycin and sulfur, resorcinol, adapalene, erythromycin, azelaic acid, isotretinoin, tetracycline, doxycline, minocycline, oral contraceptives, tazarotene, sodium sulfacetamide, blue light treatment, and red light treatment, all with no consistent success and the last two being extremely expensive. Various folk and home remedies have proven worthless to some and invaluable to others.

How to Get Rid of Those Zits

Daniel Kern, owner of the site, Acne.org, recommends a simple treatment for acne. He discovered it and reports that he and others have used it with great success. It involves over-the-counter products that cost very little. Its three-step process that is followed twice a day, preferably with the treatments 12 hours apart:
  1. Gently wash the affected areas. The operative word here is “gently,” as it’s a proven fact that rough treatment of an infected area will only spread the infection. Your aim here is to remove body oils to allow the medication used in the second step better penetrate infected pores. Use a mild soap with warm – not hot, not cold – water and use your bare hands, not a washcloth. DO NOT IRRITATE YOUR SKIN. Rinse gently and pat (not rub) dry.
  2. Apply 2% benzoil peroxide cream from the tube. This is available at any drug store. Neutrogena On-the-Spot is one such product. Kern sells his own product on-line from his site. When you begin using it, start with a small amount, what you think would be the minimum amount to cover the area. Over the next two weeks, you will be increasing the amount used until it’s double the amount you started with. Be careful to avoid the area around your eyes.
  3. Wash your hands and apply a moisturizing lotion, a little less than the amount of benzoil peroxide cream you used. Benzoil peroxide works by drying up the oils that block pores. But it also dries your skin, making it flaky and itchy. The moisturizing lotion counteracts this.
Neutrogena wash moisturizing lotion
If you have mild acne and you aren’t all that concerned about treating it but want to hide it, cosmetics will do that. Just avoid the kind with oily bases; they will make acne worse. As for shaving a face that bears acne pustules, it’s actually a good idea to shave. Dermatologists believe it improves acne by exfoliating the skin. You must be careful to shave around the pustules, however, not through them.

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    1. Madison T. Says:

      If you have tons of blackheads on your nose or really anywhere on your face, heat up some honey for like 15 seconds in the microwave and leave it on your blackheads for 20 minutes! (:
      They will squeeze out like 75% easier! NO JOKE.

    2. sall Says:

      try using an antiseptic cream put it on your face before you go to bed don’t rub the cream in this reduces the redness and the size of the spot(s)

      or

      salt and water fill up a conainer with water and put loads of salt in stir it so the it becomes a thick mixture then use a cotton bud and dab the mixture on to you spots.:)

    3. Sarah Says:

      My tip is to put a little bit of non gel toothpaste on ur zits before u go to bed…i know it sounds crazy && it sounds liek itll clog ur pores more….but it actually doesnt! u could also use the acnefree kit…I used it when i was around 13 and first started getting zits! its best for younger ”acne sufferers” && it keeps ur skin looking great!

    4. Whitney Says:

      how much water do i need to drink per day to help clear up ance???

    5. Zek Says:

      Okay.
      So I’ve had acne for… 3 or4 years. And I’m 16.
      Along with alot of you, ive tried everything. And yet my acne remains.
      So I cut the crap and went to the dermatologist and got prescribed pills. I’ve been on them and they seem to be beginning to work. They are called acutaine. Sorry if I spelled it wrong :P So my advice stop wasting your time and just go to the dermatologist.
      -Zek

    6. ZitFace Says:

      I have had zits for a while and the best method I have noticed is to use Dove bar soap. I also use the zit cream with peroxide to put over bad pimples and they seem to have cleared up within a few days. The trouble I have is that once they heal, I already have another monster growing again and it seems like it’s a never ending cycle. I can’t even get a date. I’m 27 and I’m constantly wasting money on different products that don’t work.

      :(

    7. Tara Says:

      I read in a magazine to use Milk of Magnesia. I use the brand Phillips. You can get it at like WalMart. I put it on at night, and after about 2 days my zit has reduced redness and is pretty much gone. Only put it on at night though: it is a thick white milky substance so it dries out your skin and there will be a white spot. This works for me, but may not for everyone else. It’s worth a try.

    8. anoymous Says:

      get panoxyl face wash..make sure not to get the maximum strength, unless you are using it for your back, because it is really drying. i tried this stuff and like two to three days later my whole face was cleared up. its amazing! ohh, by the way you can get it like anywhere(CVS, walgreens)

    9. anoymous Says:

      Redon about your back acne I call it bacne but um you should wash yourself with I think there is a new Nuetragena body wash you could try. Just make sure you wash your back with strong soap and maybe in a week some of it will be gone. ?????

    10. anoymous Says:

      This isn’t really about “getting rid” of a zit but on how to “cover” it up All you have to do is take toothpaste and dab just a little onto where your zit is. This is an overnight thing. So at night put toothpaste on your zit(s) and in the morning you can’t see them. You can’t use gel toothpaste either. To help get rid of zits I use purpose and it works great. It’s very gentle and it doesn’t clog your pores. It’s as gentle as water. It won’t sting when it gets in your eyes either. If you don’t have toothpaste or you don’t have money to spend drink lots of water and don’t pop the zit! Just leave it alone.

    11. redon Says:

      i got zits all over my back and any suggestions.? its hard to go outside without a ashirt

    12. its easy Says:

      just stop eating red meat for 2 weeks, because red meat causes blackheads, blackheads cause pimples

      Wash your face twice a day, tone it with toner and gently pat cream onto your skin

    13. heres-help Says:

      wash your face twice a day,
      Use toner too, i tried it for 2
      Weeks and my face is looking amazing

      P.s, remember to use a cream after you tone your face because it rehidrates your skin

    14. kimberly Says:

      i dont have acne but i get accasonal zits when “that time comes” its like a foreshadow. my mom has the same thing. there not really a perfect way to get rid of these lumps//zits/pores or anything. i have tried the water boiling thing before and it works better than not putting on foundation. but i suggesst the marykaye velocity cleanser.

    15. emily Says:

      also wash your cloth every time u wipe your face to clean your face and also use boiled water cause it goes in your pores and burns up all the bactiria i know wht it feels like soo dont worry hope it clears up ♥

    16. emily Says:

      a tip is use oxy acne vanishing cream i used it it cleared them up in 2 days and my skins is super soft and airbrushed looking bu im getting pill talso from my doctor if u want your skin use sunscreen everyday no matter what the weather and dont use toothpaste it clogs your poers

    17. Sage Says:

      Okay, I get some zits, but I don’t have acne. I’m scared to get acne medication because, well, I don’t have acne and my skin on my nose is already dry. I normally get zits between my eyebrows, on my upper lip, my chin, and my forehead. The most I usually have at one time is like, 3, but I still don’t like them at all. Any suggestions?

    18. Star Says:

      To cover up zits or whatever, if you’re a girl, try BARE ESCENTUALS the makeup kit! all of it is pure minerals so you could sleep in it if you wanted to. It actually treats, transforms it to healthier lookin’ skin when you wear it. And besides it just being good for you’re skin it covers up really well!!!!

    19. Caroline Says:

      Hey everyone,
      First of all nice try “Miley.” Use a strong face cleanser every other night and a really gentle one the next night. It really works!

    20. Big Bad Bob Says:

      What I found, for any spot other than papule spots, was that it is best to pierce the skin a little bit and gentle ‘drain’? the spot.

      If you squeeze the spot, you’re going to damage the surrounding skin (as opposed to only damaging the pin prick) and it will take longer to heal.

      Concealer is also a good way to dry out spots too. Eventually the skin flakes off, and the new skin has already grown through.

      I find that process much quicker than just leaving a spot.

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