For as long as people have suffered from acne, the tool of choice for removing blackheads has been their fingers, or more accurately, their fingernails! This is obviously not ideal, because no matter how carefully you wash your hands, you won’t remove all the dirt and bacteria from under your nails, which means you significantly increase the risk of creating a nasty skin infection when choose your blackheads

If you take nothing else from this article, at least take this advice: stop using your fingernails to squeeze and pop your blackheads! In recent years, many blackhead removal tools have been released on the market, supposedly to make blackhead removal safer and more effective. This article looks at the pros and cons of using these blackhead removers.

The advantages of using a tool to remove blackheads

• They are more sterile than fingernails, because they are usually made of stainless steel.
• They are very cheap to buy.
• In fact, they remove blackheads.

The cons of using a blackhead remover tool

• They do not completely eliminate the risk of getting a skin infection.
• They only treat the symptoms and not the cause of blackheads.
• They damage the skin and often leave scars.
• They are usually very painful to use.

The above is not just my opinion. If you take the time to research blackhead removers on the internet, on websites like Yahoo Answers and YouTube etc., you will find many comments like the following:

• They are very painful to use.
• They left big scars on my face.
• They just didn’t work.

My conclusion

My advice is to stop treating the symptoms of your skin problem (ie your blackheads) and start treating the underlying causes. However, treating the causes is obviously not a quick fix, and it is not very good for you if you have blackheads on your face and you are getting married next week, or if you have an important job interview tomorrow, or you are in a first date tonight, etc…