Polka dotted face (The Body Shop Blackhead Remover)

Member Name: carly_pussycat

Product:	The Body Shop Blackhead Remover
Date:	19/05/04 (5158 review reads)
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Advantages: None

Disadvantages: Doesn't work, Expensive for what it is

I bought this product many years ago and never had any success with it. However, yesterday I bought a facial sauna and suddenly it dawned upon me that perhaps I had not been using it correctly and that with the aid of heat perhaps I would be completely blackhead free. I don?t often get bad cases of blackheads, but when I do get a couple they REALLY bug me to the point that I normally jab and poke at them until they are gone but the surrounding skin is left red and sore.

This little tool looks like it just might do the job ? it?s a small, plastic handled piece of metal just a little bit longer than your thumb. At the end of the metal is a tiny round piece with a miniature hole in it. One side has a ridge that goes out; the other goes in, so presumably you apply pressure with the outward ridge to encourage the blackhead to pop out.

It seems a simple enough concept until you actually attempt to use it. If you use it on normal skin you can press and press all you like but all you will end up with is a face full blackheads surrounded by little dots.

As I mentioned at the beginning, I purchased a facial sauna yesterday so I thought perhaps that might be the answer: heating my face to open the pores so the little devils would just slide out.

After 10 minutes of steaming my face felt suitably warm so I rushed to fish the little tool from the depths of my ?unused cosmetics? drawer and looked in the mirror to attempt to use the blackhead remover. Same again ? red polka dots and blackheads still present. How disappointing!


VERDICT

I hate throwing things away when they are supposed to be of some use, so in the mean time this useless little piece of junk will reside in my drawer and probably be fished out every couple of years in the vain hope that it might miraculously work on
e day. I shall stick to face masks and regularly cleansing and toning to keep my face blackhead free.

If for some bizarre reason you feel compelled to buy this stupid little thing it will cost you £1.75 from the Body Shop. I will gladly spend £60 on a face cream that works; but I feel totally ripped off @ £1.75 for something I cannot use!



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