Oily skin and blackheads often go hand in hand. What can you do to avoid and prevent them? Find out how to incorporate skincare products with purifying active ingredients into your routine.
How do blackheads form?
Also known as open comedones, blackheads form when skin pores become clogged. The skin naturally produces sebum on its surface, which helps keep it moisturized and protected. The skin renews itself regularly, especially at night, and old, dead skin cells are supposed to slough off.
However, excessive sebum production and dead cells can lead to obstruction of dilated pores generally located on the T-zone (forehead, nose and chin). When the pores of the skin are dilated, they become clogged, and eventually oxidize upon contact with air, which gives them a dark and even black color, hence the name "blackheads".
Our experts' solution: Non-comedogenic facial care
To prevent the formation of blackheads and prevent their appearance, we recommend adopting a suitable skincare routine. Combination to oily skin is generally the most prone to these imperfections, since overproduction of sebum is one of the main causes of blackheads on the face.
Applying non-comedogenic and purifying skincare products daily, day and night, is essential to prevent the proliferation of imperfections on the face.
Oily skin tends to have excess sebum on the skin in the morning. Our experts recommend applying a cleanser with a purifying action to remove the oily film present on the skin's surface. The Purifying Cleansing Jelly gently cleanses and purifies the skin. Formulated with zinc extract, it cleanses, purifies, and helps eliminate facial imperfections.
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The Anti-Imperfections Clear Skin Serum intensely purifies the skin and smooths the skin's texture for clearer skin throughout the day, ready to receive a non-comedogenic moisturizer.
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During the day, the ritual designed by PAYOT experts purifies and maintains moderate sebum production to prevent the proliferation of blackheads on the skin. In the evening, we recommend treating your blackheads to eliminate them quickly.
In the evening, treat your blackheads
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Once your facial skin is completely clean, we recommend applying a treatment specially designed to eliminate blackheads.
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Ideal for combination to oily skin, the Purifying Exfoliating Stick with hemp seeds exfoliates the skin and unclogs blackheads from enlarged pores by massaging it into the skin during application. To boost the purifying effect of this facial scrub, leave it on your skin for 5 minutes and rinse.
The secret to removing blackheads from your face is to exfoliate your skin once or twice a week. Gentle exfoliation will remove dead skin cells, which can be partly responsible for the formation of blackheads.
Anaïs Texier, E-commerce Manager at PAYOT
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