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What is Blackheads?

Blackheads are also known as open comedowns, plural comedowns A Blackhead is a term used to describe the skin’s pores clogged by natural oils and impurities and is a small,yellowish or blackish bump or plug that give skin a rough texture Blackheads are the slightly different sibling of zits, and like zits, squeezing them can be addictive. Blackheads are really a common problem for those in their teens and up and can affect all skin types, However they’re particularly problematic for those with oily skin. Mainly blackheads are dark because of the presence of a dark pigment.

Home Remedies for the treatment of Blackheads
•    Wash your face twice a day in warm salty water.
•    Apply undiluted lemon juice, two to three times a day, on the affected areas.
•    Use green tea as a face scrub to loose blackheads.
•    Take 1 tsp of juice extracted from fresh coriander leaves and add ½ tsp of turmeric powder .Make the paste and apply it on the affected area before going to bed. Wash your face with cold water in the morning.
•    Make a solution of one and a half cup of hot water and half tablespoon of boric powder. Dip one face napkin in the solution and pat on the face for sometime. Later rub the face with a cotton.
•    Make a solution of one and a half cup of hot water and half tablespoon of boric powder. Dip one face napkin in the solution and pat on the face for sometime. Later rub the face with a cotton ball.
•    Johanna oil is a good moisturizer for skin used after scrubs to remove blackheads.
•    Apply paste of fresh fenugreek leaves mixed with water on the face every night and wash off with warm water in the morning to prevent blackheads.
•    Stay away from humid conditions such as poorly ventilated rooms.

Causes of Blackheads
•    Problems with digestion, constipation, or under active thyroid and anemia seem to be contributing factors
•    Blackheads is caused when excess skin oil, sebum and congesting toxins are expelled through your skin from the blood and lymph fluid that supplies your skin with nutrients.
•    Hormonal changes.
•    If leave your skin dirty and dead cells accumulate within your open pores.
•    Hardened sebaceous secretion.
•    Excessive intake of tea, coffee, alcohol or tobacco.

Symptoms of Blackheads
•    Blackheads are black, at the exposed end, because of oxidation rather than the presence of germs.
•    Scarring of the skin.
•    Flaky skin.
•    Blackheads form a light or yellow-white lump and are called mil ia (or milieu, singular).

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