Open pores make your face look unattractive and turn smooth and shiny skin into skin resembling orange peel, causing creams and concealers to sit unattractively on the face.
Skin pores are actually openings of sebaceous glands visible on the skin’s surface. Various factors such as genetics, excessive sebum production by sebaceous glands, heavy makeup use, etc., can cause pores to become more open.
It is worth mentioning that sometimes the holes seen on the skin’s surface are actually old acne scars that are mistakenly thought of as pores.
Ways to prevent open pores
Avoid heavy makeup and cosmetics as much as possible.
For children and adolescents, especially, colorless sunscreens are recommended.
If you wish to wear makeup, only use sunscreen suitable for your skin and avoid using other cosmetic products alone or on top of your sunscreen. In dark and pigmented skin, bronzed sunscreens are preferred.
It is necessary for everyone, even those with dry skin, to cleanse their skin at night with toner and cleansing creams to remove accumulated impurities, oil, and sebum from the skin’s surface. Leaving these substances on the skin’s surface over time will lead to further enlargement of the pores. It can also lead to the formation of subcutaneous pimples and blackheads.
Oily skin should use suitable cleansers daily to regulate skin oil.
Treatment for open pores
Completely closing pores is neither correct nor possible, but for tightening open pores, the following treatments are recommended:
1- Use of AHA compounds and exfoliants
2- Microdermabrasion
3- Fractional laser
4- Microneedling fractional RF
