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Summary: Steaming helps to open the pores and soften the skin. Learn about steaming in spa treatments in this free health and beauty video.
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"Alright JR, so what I'm seeing is, I'm seeing, like I said, a little bit of congestion here, which is normal for everyone. You're a little bit dryer on the cheeks and on the forehead. We're going to be able to clean this out down here, and some of these things, you know, you can do at home, you know, very gently with your fingers wrapped in tissues. You can do the extractions after you get out of the shower. OK. Just so you don't have, you know, so you don't have a lot of oil build up. Now, for people at home who are looking and they're seeing it, is that dead skin, is that a white head? What exactly is it that we see? What you're looking at is you're looking at a combination of dead skin, you're looking at makeup that gets embedded in to the pores, and you're just looking at oil that is produced. It's a natural oil called sebum, and that's produced in the pore, and that's what you want to clean out, because it's a natural thing to have sebum or oil production, but you just want to keep it cleaned out because if you leave it in the pore, what happens is it enlarges the pore, and that's when you get large pores. OK. OK? So you want to consistently clean that out to minimize the pore size. OK, I see the steam, I'm ready. OK. And now what does the steam do? What the steam does is the steam helps to open the pores and soften the skin. So when we go to do the extractions, the big extraction process, it'll come out much easier and be less painful. I feel like I'm like in a horror movie, you know, where the ghost is about to appear out of all the steam. It is a little bit like that. Like you're in the fog. But actually the steam smells good. It's some sort of aromatherapy or something good. It doesn't smell like lavender or flowery or something. Oh, you're very perceptive. Yeah, I actually put a little bit of aromatherapy oil in this little part right here, so when the steam comes out it smells really nice. And it's all a part of the experience"