I’ve always heard that you shouldn’t pop your zits, instead just let them go away on their own. But when I just left them alone, it seemed like it took forever to go away. First they started out red and definitely impossible to pop. Once they got a whitehead on them, the urge to pop that zit and release the infection was hard to pass up. My sister loves popping pimples or zits and would always say, “let me pop that zit for you,  it’s ready”! Of course I would decline and explain that I was just going to wait and let it go away by its own accord. I now know that there is a correct way to pop zits.

First and foremost, it is imperative that you make sure you scrub your fingers, fingernails and hands with anti-bacterial soap. The reason why zits get worse when you pop them is because you’ve probably used dirty fingernails that have just added more infection to the zit.

Also, a great tip I was given by a friend was to use two Q-tips or cotton balls to buffer the zit between your fingers. These couple of tips have worked wonders for me. I hope they will work for you.