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Posted by Celeste Moondancer on 14/6/2008, 4:54 pm, in reply to "Question"
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If beauty magazines told you that all you needed to do to get rid of black/white heads was take a hot bath with a hot terry cloth on your face, the entire beauty market for products that state they can do that would go out of business.
There's a very long story behind how I discovered this beauty secret, but I will make it as short as possible. When I was a teenager, my entire face, chest, and back was completely covered with acne, and large black heads in the small spaces between the 'zits'. I was quite well off at the time and tried countless products, both cheap and very expensive (one I tried that I bought in L.A. cost over 1 hundred dollars an ounce! And it, along with all the other products I tried did nothing to help whatsoever. Once I was broke, I lived in several places, with as many as 7 people in a 1 bedroom apartment!
The only way to have some peace and quiet was to take baths. Before that I always took showers. As bathing eliminated my stress, I began saying in longer and longer, and always used VERY hot water. I don't know exactly how long it actually took for it to help both my acne, as well as drastically shrink my black & white heads, because to be honest, I hated how I looked so much, I never looked in a mirror unless it was by accident. After a month or so of taking long bathes almost every night, my friends started commenting that my skin looked much better, and asked what I was using.
I knew the baths were obviously the reason my skin was clearing up because it was the only thing I was doing different, I just didn't know WHY, until I walked into the kitchen after someone cooked bacon, but didn't wash out the pan. As you know, when you fry bacon, fat melts and turns clear and watering in consistency, but once the fat comes to room temperature, it becomes firm, and a sort of light beige color.
Picture I light bulb turning on over my head. White heads are basically just fat that is clogged in your pores, and pollution in the air such as the exhaust of cars, and smoke of factories attach to the semi solid fat in your pores, turning them black. So if heat melts fat and makes it watery, putting heat (via a very hot face cloth, as well as steam from hot water) causes the fat to literally melt out of your pores, thus making them smaller or even invisible. I also use those scouring pads that look like long thin buff puffs, by putting a mixture of anti bacterial soap and exfoliating cream on them and VERY gently rubbing it onto my skin in a small circlier motion on the effected area.
I know...I have a weird thinking process.
But at least I've thought of a lot more beauty secrets in other ways that are just as strange or accidental.
As long as I take hot baths and do what I mention on a regular basis, I not only NEVER get a single pimple, but my pores are empty and completley invisible now. In fact, with the exception of my hair (that turned from bone straight to curly over night, but that's another story) I get a great deal of compliments about my skin, and haven't had to even use the slightest amount of foundation in so long, I can't even remember when I stopped.
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