A Note to All Pickers—you know who you are!!! Important Instructions: A must read!

Throughout the years I have come across a lot of people who regularly pick at their skin. I have learned that trying to get them to quit is futile. A picker picks! It can sometimes be an obsessive pastime or just a bad habit. Regardless, far be it from me to take away one of your life’s pleasures. What I do request and truly insist on is that you do your lovely picking job correctly.

1. You MUST wrap your fingers in tissue. Take a Kleenex, fold it in half and tear it in half, then wrap your index fingers. If you go at your skin with your bare hands/nails, you are encouraging bacteria to form, more so than if you wrap your fingers. So wrap them up.
2. You MUST see a clearly defined white or yellow pus-filled head on the blemish or else it is NOT extractable and you can really cause some damage if you try anyway.
3. Please please PLEASE treat the place(s) you picked at with something. If you don’t have any pure essential oils at home (like lavender or geranium) then dotting clay mask on the area would suffice. If you don’t have clay, if you have a toner you could soak a small piece of cotton with it and compress the spots for a few minutes each. Put something on your freshly picked at skin to help encourage the healing process. Don’t leave your (possibly) damaged skin bare to the world without giving it some TLC.
4. My highest recommendation is DON’T PICK. There are numerous things that can (and usually do) go wrong and you really leave yourself open to having little scars on your face—forever.

When you go to pick at your face, instead pick up your bottle of essential oil or a clay mask and put these healing products on the spots and walk away. Know you have done something great for yourself and your skin.

For more information, see:

• Does picking at my skin cause scarring?
• Geranium (or Lavender)—spot remover for breakouts
• Yonka’s Juvenil—purifying concentrate and spot treatment
• Help for Breakouts