🔹 1. Start With a Gentle Cleanser
It’s tempting to “dry out” acne with strong soaps or alcohol-based cleansers but this only backfires by stripping your skin’s natural barrier, causing your skin to produce more oil and subsequently more breakouts.
👉 Try this instead:
Use a gentle, non-pore clogging cleansers with salicylic acid or benzoyl peroxide. Wash morning and night (no more, no less).
🔹 2. Use a Treatment that Exactly Targets an Affected Spot
If you only have a few active pimples, spot treatments can help shrink them quickly.
✅ Ingredients to look for:
If you have acne, treat them with Benzoyl peroxide (kills acne-causing bacteria)
Salicylic acid unclogs pores
Sulfur dries out blemishes
Tea tree oil is a natural anti-inflammatory treatment
🕒 Apply them directly to clean skin once or twice a day.
🔹 3. Avoid Touching or Picking Your Pimples
It’s hard to resist but popping a pimple often pushes bacteria deeper into the skin leading to worse swelling, longer healing time, and possible scarring.
💡 Tip: Keep your hands clean and away from your face.
Change pillowcases often.
Clean your phone screen daily.
🔹 4. Use an Ice Pack to Reduce Swelling
For large, painful pimples, an ice cube wrapped in a clean cloth can reduce inflammation fast.
🕐 Hold on the blemish for 1-2 minutes. Repeat a few times a day.
🔹 5. Keep Your Routine Simple for the Next 48 Hours
This not the time to test new products or overload your skin with layers of creams.
👍 Stick to:
Gentle cleanser
Spot treatment
Lightweight moisturizer
Sunscreen (non-comedogenic!) non-pore clogging
Let your skin breathe and heal.
🔹 BONUS: When to See a Dermatologist
If breakouts are frequent, painful, or leaving scars, don’t wait.
A dermatologist can recommend stronger topical treatments, prescription retinoids, or oral meds that tackle acne at the root.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned that there are skin care and cosmetic products sold in the market that contain the harmful chemical, mercury.
The FDA says that if the product carries the label "mercury", 'mercurious chloride", "mercuric", "mercurio", or "calomel", stop using it right now. It also suggests that if the ingredients are not clearly included in the label, then don't buy the product.
Mercury content can be found in anti-aging and skin lightening skin care and cosmetic products claiming to remove lines and wrinkles, freckles, skin blemishes, and even acne.
These skin care and cosmetic products are manufactured outside the US and marketed illegally in the US particularly in areas populated by African-Americans, Middle Easterners, Asians, and Hispanics.
The Dangers of Mercury Poisoning
Mercury poisoning cause harm to the body by blocking the blood vessels and disrupting the body's normal functions. This results to serious damage to the lungs, brain, and kidneys.
Signs and symptoms of mercury poisoning
1. Itching and burning sensation in the skin or the feeling that insects are crawling under your skin
2. Changing skin color. When you notice that the color of your skin is becoming pale and no longer looks healthy, you may have been dangerously exposed to mercury.
3. Peeling of the skin. If you notice that you are experiencing an unusual shedding of your skin, you need to see a doctor.
4. Damage to your eyesight, hearing and speech. When you notice a change in your eyesight, hearing and the way you speak, you may have been exposed to mercury and you need to see a doctor.
Next time you want to go to the mall to buy that skin care product or cosmetics that you badly need, check the label first. Make sure there's no mercury in its ingredients.
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