How to Pop a Pimple

Martyrs of acne! Raise your voice in joyous salute! For I shall show you in this Instructable how to pop those pimples that are holding your face hostage!

This is an answer to Burning Question, comments and suggestions (as well as ratings :) are welcome.

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Step 1 Pimple Poping: The basics

According to Wikipedia, and every other I could find, the traditional means of pimple popping can lead to infection and even scarring. To pop pimples in the medically approved way, you'll need:

• A pin, needle, or very sharp knife
• Hydrogen peroxide, iodine, or other antiseptic
• toilet paper, tissue, cotton, something to blot up the pus
• Optional: lighter or match

Start by sterilizing your tool of choice (I'd go for the pin) with the match/lighter. WARNING: keep open flames AWAY from the hydrogen peroxide.

Comments

[woodwork]

1) Eat yeast. tablets .

2) Wash your face with clean hot water NO soap ,then put Honey on you face like face pack .
After 15 min wash off with clean hot water

3) Massage face with clean dry towel .Getting rid of blackheads and stimulating blood cerculation .

Avoide creams that will block face pores

[flick]

DO NOT sterilize the needle by heating it.

You'll tattoo a nice little black spot in your face with the soot.

Use alcohol or Betadine to sterilize the needle.

[Kchloe17]

No it doesnt give a black mark once you put it with clean water

[CaptianC3]

Ya Cool Hat

[KentsOkay]

Thanks :D

[Screamo]

Cool hat :D

[beehard44]

you shouldn't pop a pimple. It will attract infection and besides, there is cheap working medication out there.
P.S. i learned it the hard way

[mash4077]

please don't do this you could get nerve damage and scars

[The Jamalam]

Nerve damage? No more than being poked with a spike on a plant. Stabbing won't do much harm, it's slashing and cutting that will. As for scars, don't stab, just gently prick and you'll be fine.

[acidbass]

Why are your bathroom walls pink????

[KentsOkay]

They have been repainted, they are yellow now...

[acidbass]

eewww yellow bathroom like some one peed all over the place

[Punching Grampas]

HA! when i read your comment i actually LOL'D

[acidbass]

thanks it is good to hear that someone can have a good laugh about something i said

[zombiehunter96]

I think it looks better than brown walls XD

[acidbass]

 true but mine are like brownish

[watermelonhead]

This is a bad idea! It'll leave a scar and may make it worse. But hey, do whatever you want

[Steamdnt]

I can vouch for this, Got rid of a pesky one underneath my right nostril, Used a small sterile scalpel. most puss I have ever seen!

 

[Colonel88]

This 'ill leave you a scar.

[mannetti21]

Have to wipe the flamed needle with an alcohol wipe, use at least 70% isopropyl and you're good to go

[StarryWaltz]

Would try this, but most the time I get the spots that are under the skin, so I'd actually have to stab myself in the face, not good... Nice little instructable though, will have to keep my eye out for any pimples to see if it works better then just a good old squeeze!

[acidbass]

it gave me pockmarks dont try it

[acidbass]

why not use some anti acne cream

[StarryWaltz]

Are you just going all out to try and insult the author? You really need to find something better to do with your time...

[KentsOkay]

*facepalm*

[Tenma-]

lol wut

[acidbass]

what dork stamp you have something against not painful stuff

[KentsOkay]

Lancing isn't painful.

[CrispFlows]

I've done this technique for years. No scars. Don't put the needle in deep, you only need to create an escape channel for the infected pus to escape. You avoid scarring by doing a prick, not a stab like some here seems to suggest. The key here is an gentle prick and gentle pressure. No aggresive actions. After the lancing and draining is done, apply the anti-bacterial creme.

[LinuxH4x0r]

I just vomited in my mouth! Great Job!

[acidbass]

awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!

[KentsOkay]

Ummm... That wasn't quite the reaction I intended but hey, thanks!

[jara]

I don't know if this is against each and every advice your dermatologists ever gave you, but what i use is injection needles. They are VERY sharp and hollow, allowing smallest possible area to be disturbed while reaching even those "double-deckers", where you just know after apparently getting all the puss out there is still more on its way to the surface. Oh, and also those that have a huge red area and evil pressure for a week and then go like "nah" and try to dwindle away only to cause problems later by creating a solid marble somewhere deep and unexpected. No scarring for me, at least. Oh, and something that proved useful at my grandmothers before my toilet-bag started containing the proper remedies (used even after that because of the high success ratio): finely cut plantago leaves (almost any variety) put under a band-aid on top of the pimple for a couple of hours or overnight works small miracles almost every time.

[KentsOkay]

I was using a sewing pin...

[jara]

Uh, use of sewing needles/pins/safety pins does sound like a sure fire way to get scars.. If you want to combine pain and skincare for some reason, that's the ticket. Otherwise get an injection needle. They are difficult to get in some places as the first assumption is your next stop will be a wild drug user party with rampant unclean-needle-exchanging, but if your pharmacist has the legal right not to sell them, get a prescription from your doctor. It's worth it. (Or next time you need to let a nurse stick a needle in you ask to have it and if needed describe the most disgusting pimple you've ever had, look forlorn and tell her you get them all the time.)

[KentsOkay]

What if I'm broke and don't feel like getting a prescription>?

[jara]

Donate blood and ask to have the needle - and behold: You have either 20$ or a snack/meal AND an injection needle. Injection needles are usually cheap, though, so that shouldn't be too big of a problem either.

[KentsOkay]

They won't let me donate blood : gotta be 18...

[acidbass]

not really u can donate to a children hospital

[KentsOkay]

oh really? I should do that then...