How to Treat a Complexion With Large Pores
Everyone has small pores on their skin that allow the oils, sweat and hair to come to the surface. As you get older your pores may become larger and more visible. Enlarged pores can be due to heredity, or your body's tendency to make more oil in the hair follicle. Proper skin care and other treatments can minimize or reduce the appearance of large pores. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Sunscreen
- Makeup remover
- Facial wash
- Skin toner
- Moisturizer
- Skin-tightening mask
- Large pan of water
- Towel
- Vitamin A moisturizer
- Hydroxy acid moisturizer
- Microdermabrasion
- Chemical peel
- Laser skin resurfacing
Instructions
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Avoid the sun. Sun damage can lead to larger pores later on. Wear a good sunscreen on your face every day.
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Remove your makeup every night. Sleeping in your makeup can clog your pores and enlarge them.
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Keep your skin healthy and free from oil to reduce large pores. A good skin care regimen that includes washing your face every night and morning can minimize oils that cause large pores. Your daily skin care regimen should including a gentle facial wash, a skin/pore tightening toner and a moisturizer.
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Use a skin-tightening mask once a week. You can purchase masks in the skin care section of your drugstore.
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Steam your face once a week to clean out your pores. You can buy a facial steamer or make your own. To make your own, boil a large pan of water and place it on your table. Sit with your face over the pan with a towel over the back of your head and draping over the pan. Stay under the towel for about five minutes or as long as steam is coming up from the pan.
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Purchase an over-the-counter moisturizer that will help minimize large pores. Look for face moisturizers with one of the following ingredients: vitamin A, tretinoin, or retinoic acid. These ingredients help to unclog pores.
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Use an Alpha or Beta Hydroxy Acid cream on your face. You can purchase skin care creams and systems with these ingredients that exfoliate your skin and produce more collagen in your skin to minimize large pores.
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Try microdermabrasion treatments or exfoliate your skin at least once a week to remove dead skin cells. You can purchase microdermabrasion kits with various types of crystals or beads that slough off dead skin and reveal layers of skin underneath that are smoother with less-visible pores.
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Get a chemical skin peel at a dermatologist's office. Chemical peels are a more intense dermabrasion and are effective in reducing large pores. Chemical peels often require recovery time at home as your skin will be very red and raw for a few days or up to a week.
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Get laser skin resurfacing at your dermatologist's office. Laser skin resurfacing is done in a doctor's office with a laser made to slough off the top-most layers of your skin. Underneath layers are younger and free of large pores. Depending on the strength of the laser you may need recovery time at home.
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