In this post, we will give you skin care tips and trick to reduce acne and minimize your large pores.

What are pores?

Pores are the little openings on our face that we like to complain about. They are very important for the healthy functioning of our skin because they produce sebum to protect your skin from dirt and bacteria in the environment.

There are actually teeny hair follicles with baby hair inside the pore which you can’t really see for the most part. Sebum is released to the surface of the skin through the pore. Pores are different from sweat pores, which only produce sweat from the glands. And only when the pore is trapped by dead skin, will comedones as whiteheads, blackheads or breakouts form inside the pore.

So a lot of you are probably wondering: why are my pores so big? So, generally speaking, it comes down to skin types. Here are some skin types:

Oily skin

People with more oily skin will generate more sebum in the pore. When the pore is filled with sebum, it will look larger. It’s kind of like filling up a pool.

Dry skin

Whereas people with dry skin, they already don’t produce as much sebum, to begin with; which is why that hair follicle or that pore size is already smaller. But then the other end of that just means that they have to work harder in restoring all the oil to their face. Otherwise, dry as a desert.

Combination skin

If you have combination skin, you will find that for the most part, just the pores around your t-zone will be enlarged compared to the rest of your face.

Face steaming

You can’t actually open or close a pore, because in order to do that you need a muscle, and there is no muscle surrounding your teeny tiny little pore. It’s basically got to do with temperature. When it’s hot, your skin as an organ expands, and it will like to magnify that hole which is the pore.

And then when it’s cold it will contract. And so what face steaming does is it’s basically using hot steam and opening your pore so that it will loosen the debris that’s actually filling the pore inside, which is like dirt, oil, whiteheads, blackheads and makes it easier to do things like extraction.

Steaming at home:

Fill your sink with hot water. You can boil some, but hot water from the tap works perfectly fine as well. Then you want to cover your head with a towel for 3 to 5 minutes. However long is comfortable for you. And if you find that it’s a little too hard to breathe, just like open the towel up a little and let that air through.

And you’ll find that very quickly your face will feel hot, you’ll start sweating, and this is actually really great because sweat expels a lot of toxins from the face as well. So not only are you opening the pores. But you’re also getting rid of that gunk. Doing this is one method, but it’s the same as having a bath or a shower. So you don’t have to do this if you just came out of the bath or the shower because it’s the same thing.

You will be able to clear your sinuses, as well, as you’re doing this. And if you just can’t be bothered with filling your sink with water and, you know, draping a towel over your head and putting your face over it, you could also get a face towel and wet it with hot water. Wring it, and then just put it over wherever you want to extract. Put it over here for like a minute or something.

Extraction

You guys have probably seen this tool around. It’s basically a metal rod with a loop on one end and a more rounded spoon extractor, which has a teeny tiny hole in the middle. This tool is used to extract the comedo, which is just a fancy medical term for pimple. And these include blackheads, whiteheads.

So when you’re once clean pores are trapped by dead skin, things like oil and bacteria start to build up inside which forms these pimples or forms these blackheads or whiteheads, which is when you use a tool to extract.

And the difference between a whitehead, a blackhead and like a pimple, for example, is a whitehead is contained. It’s not exposed to air, so it’s still under the skin. It’s just, like, slowly building up. And then a blackhead isn’t black because it’s dirty. It’s because it’s actually been exposed to air, and air oxidizes make it black. Then a pimple is just more of that pussy build up inside. If you use it properly, get this out, very gently.

Skin care

The most important thing when it comes to minimizing your pores. We are gonna focus on serums. Serums are these jam-packed concentrated little bottles of magic that are filled with active ingredients to help you target specific skin care concerns.

And there’s a lot of products for pore care. So if pores are our main concern, you want to find something that is very hydrating as well as helps with the blurring of the pores.

So it’s important to use pore control serums after you’ve just extracted all the nasties from your pores. Apart from that, it actually has mattifying powders in it, but also light enhancing pigments, so that it does kind of like manipulate lighting when it’s shining onto your face.

It’s also got the key ingredients of Tamarind pulp acid; and this is an Alpha Hydroxy Acid, which we know is a chemical exfoliant that helps to unclog the pores. Also, reduce age-related spots and blemishes and keep the skin clear. And tamarind also has a lot of antioxidants In it that help with free radicals, kind of like vitamin C.

Tamarind naturally exfoliates pore-clogging debris to help smooth and refine skin’s texture, for a boost of radiance. There’s also Vine Flower, which helps to tighten and reduce the look of enlarged pores. And there’s also an organic strawberry tree, which helps regulate oil production to reduce the appearance of dilated pores.

Dry skin or large pores

For dry skin and large pores, you can try skipping cleansing in the morning and instead use something like beauty water or micellar water to just kind of take off. And then after just follow with your skincare routine. And for dry skin, serums are a must because it helps you nourish and hydrate your skin before you lock everything in with a moisturizer. Because if you don’t have the under layers, your moisturizer could potentially not be enough for dry skin.