Your Pores—Open & Shut Case?
by kuuipo1207 ~ August 6th, 2008. Filed under: Skin Care.
Do you have big pores? Do your pores clog easily? Do you use hot water to help open your pores while cleaning your face, and then cold water afterwards to close them up again? Do you spend hour after hour researching different products in a mad search for something that will give you a “perfect” looking pore-free face? Have you ever tried those nifty little products that claim to “shrink” your pores over time?
One more question: Did you know that your pores do not actually open or close?
True fact. I know! I was shocked too! I was catching up on my Google Reader and noticed this article from The Beauty Bunny; and after doing some research, it seems pretty true.
I always knew all those products that claim to shrink your pores didn’t literally make them smaller. That was a no brainer to me - they’d have to seep into your DNA and change your genes or something scientific like that. All those products really do is just create the illusion that they’re getting smaller. I use Clinique’s Pore Minimizer cause it “mattes” out my face, which won’t allow as much light to reflect off of them little buggers I hate so much (really, I don’t have BIG pores, but I don’t have milky smooth skin either).
But to find out that my pores don’t actually open and close when I use hot/cold water or toner…now THAT surprised me. Ha! I guess it pays to not always believe the hype that beauty companies try to push on you.
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August 9th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
I use that Clinique product too! It was the first one I got from the Pore Minimizer Line. In my case I can count (really) 3 big open pores. And the minimizer, besides the matte effect you describe, fills them and its the only thing that helps me get a smoother looking skin. Some use this as a primer, I use after applying regular primer and it has worked really well.
I have other product of that line, the pore minimizing lotion (I think it’s called like that). The only thing I like about it is that I woke up every morning with my face feeling extremely soft.
August 16th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
hi francine,
I’m curious is there any other products that your recommend for large pores?
I’m gonna check the clinique products. But, I wonder if there is something out there that works as well.
Thanks
Clarissa
January 5th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
I remember reading a while back in one of my biology books that the pore is a cone shape with the larger part on the surface. So like if you stuck a ice cream cone, sharp end first into your skin.
The pore minimizing cleansers and such usually buff off the first couple layers of skin so it’s like shaving off the top of the cone so the diameter looks smaller, but as dead skin accumulates the pore looks bigger.