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- Samantha, selected from Planet Green
- July 22, 2011
- 1:32 pm
- 79 comments
By Laurel House, Planet Green
You can wear a loose shirt if you’re feeling bloated and apply some self-tanner if you’ve spent too much time indoors, but no matter how much makeup you apply, it’s hard to totally cover up a pimple. And you feel like it’s the only thing anyone sees! Here are totally essential tips to know to get rid of a pimple and fast!
Toothpaste
Use the non-gel kind. Squeeze a little dab of it onto a clean finger and apply to the pimple. Since toothpaste dries overnight, it reduces inflammation in your pimple, allowing the swelling to go down. It also pulls pus out from the pimple.
Baking Soda
A paste made of baking soda and water offers the same benefits of toothpaste and is a great alternative if you just don’t feel look putting something sticky and minty on your skin. Allow the baking soda paste to stay on your skin overnight to fully dry out the pimple.
White Vinegar
There is a reason many face wash products smell so bitter—acid. The acidity of white vinegar can actually dissolve pus within a zit. Since it’s the pus that causes the pimple to be swollen, the pimple will reduce in size once the pus is pulled out. Put a little bit onto a cotton swap and pat it on the pimple.
Ice
You put an icepack on an injury to reduce inflammation. Well, consider that pimple an injury. And it is one to your ego, right? Rub an ice cube over any puffy or red areas of your skin to reduce inflammation.
Visine
Really any product meant to reduce redness in your eyes will work. These products restrict blood vessels, pulling blood away from the surface and taking away color. Eye-drop products can do the same for a pimple.
Don’t let a pimple be an unwanted accessory to that hair and makeup you’ve worked so hard on!
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Read more: Beauty, Holistic Beauty, Skin Care, acne, blemishes, pimples
Samantha, selected from Planet Green
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good tips for pimples remove
i smear some warm lemon juice or the inside of a cut lemon around the face and let it sit. helps for small acne situation.
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milk of magnesia topical can work too (like toothpaste, but super powered).
I used toothpaste when I was young and it worked!
Will pass this on to my teenagers! Thanks for the article.
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