Comments on: Banish That Pimple with a Band Aid?

By: ashley

ashley — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 07:09:18 +0000

I’ll try this tonight. I think it might work because with the bandaid on it I won’t be touching it and transferring oils from my fingers to it. also, when you take the bandaids off you probably exfoliate your skin some

By: ashley

ashley — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 07:06:37 +0000

I’ve found that with mine I don’t want to use neosporin unless I’ve really messed with’m and my skin in irritated/torn up because the vaseline-y part of it will clog my pores worse. occasionally I get really dry lips and put a tiny bit of neosporin on’m before I go to bed and then I get break outs around my mouth!! :(

By: Kriss

Kriss — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:34:52 +0000

This method works. I’ve used the bandaid treatment for about 3 years – just make sure you put it on a zit that does NOT have a white head. The zit will go away in about a week – or less!

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:17:52 +0000

This actually seems like a bad idea to me…I thought pores needed to “breathe,” especially if they’re already clogged/infected. I’ve read stuff on cleansers about oxygenating pores for clearer skin. Anyway, my big advice with this is to be careful that the adhesive doesn’t irritate your skin! I had blood taken at the doctor’s office and they slapped on a band-aid that left a weird rash for a couple of days. Luckily it was only on my arm.

I recommend using Neosporin or whatever triple antibiotic ointment on zits, especially if they’ve popped or been picked at (…guilty…). Put the ointment on and then cover with a band-aid and go to bed. this should speed up healing and moisturize the area for easier cover up.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:33:43 +0000

Tried this again last night with a cloth backing band-aid and a regular band-aid, and then used my sulfur spot treatment on a few other blemishes. I found that the band-aids DID work better this time! I think it might have to do with the moisturizer I was testing out, which might have worsened the spots. Anyway, I prefer the regular band-aids as they are a little less sticky, so peeling them off doesn’t really leave any red marks or irritation. I would say that the band-aid method is going to work at the same (perhaps slightly slower) rate as conventional spot treatments, but it isn’t drying at all! So for anyone with dry skin or with allergies/sensitivities to most acne medications, band-aids are a cheap and useful product to use on a nasty, whitehead-free zit.

Will definitely be adding band-aids to my list of unconventional spot treatments for my face!

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:05:15 +0000

Tried it, and I’m not sure it did much. It might depend on the TYPE of band-aid used though; I used one that has a cloth-like backing to it, as opposed to those plastic-y ones. It might also work differently on different zits. I definitely know that I would not want to try it on any zits that have a head, as I can see that easily tearing some/all of the whitehead off and causing more damage.

I’ll try it out again tonight though with both band-aid types. I have about 4-5 small blemishes that I’ve been trying to get rid of for a while, so I’ll see if the band-aids work better than my spot treatment alternative (calamine lotion haha). I really hope it works, and will comment again with the results!

By: Renee

Renee — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:37:38 +0000

Totally! I think that may have to do with it. That it’s pressed down, lack of oxygen … I wonder if the band aid itself has something in it? I know the white bit has antiseptic but the sticky bit might have something; though I think it’s just a tape, right? Ah! I really don’t know! :-P