Name: Black Dots on the Nose? Here's How To Treat Sebaceous Filaments
Uploaded: 2025-01-04T12:42:33.000Z
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Okay, so these things that are being lifted out of the skin are an accumulation of the oil from your oil glands as well as dirt, debris, and gunk that just accumulates in them.

This has been termed the sebaceous filament.

You'll find this in like old literature going back like 50 years ago they termed it a sebaceous filament.

People don't like having them and they always feel like, okay maybe if I just use a pore strip to take these off then it will get rid of them.

This person really benefited a lot from this pore strip but you really don't want to get to the point where there's that much buildup.

It really is just a collection of these things.

These videos can be super satisfying to Let's talk about why oil is actually really important, right?

But our pores is actually what is going to produce the oils that keep our skin soft and hydrated.

So the oils in our skin are made up of multiple things.

One of the most abundant things in them is actually triglycerides.

Glycerol which is similar to glycerin and how it acts on our skin.

And collectively these have a protective benefits and then they also interact with things on our skin like the microbiome.

Going back to that video, that buildup is probably a little extensive, right?

When it gets to that point you can imagine that if you have that much buildup in your pores that it's going to make your pores look larger, right?

So the goal is to actually not get it to build up to this point.

Now pore strips have been demonized on social media where people say you should never use a pore strip.

But an occasional pore strip once a month, once every other month, is going to remove those tiny bell hairs on the skin and can be a nice cleanup treatment that you use like occasionally.

Our goal is actually to give you a skincare routine that's going to prevent the buildup.

You actually probably don't need to use pore strips at all.

So let's talk about the first ingredient I think is probably going to be the most beneficial for these sebaceous filaments and that's salicylic acid.

Salicylic acid, it's a beta hydroxy acid sort of.

So this could dissolve the oil, remove it in a cleanser, which is my favorite way to use this.

And then it can also work as a leave-on product to break down the oil and then maybe decrease oil production a little bit.

It's going to lift away a lot of that oil and dead skin cells.

It's a mild exfoliant, able to get into the pores and remove that.

And so it's going to do a lot of the work, right?

Daily cleanser or leave-on exfoliant, something like the Paul's Choice 2% BHA liquid exfoliant.

Really a good option to kind of target in these really sebaceous areas.

I'd say that's probably my top ingredient for these.

So my top ingredient is, I mean, the retinol, retinoids.

My whole life apparently revolves around these things, but retinoids I think are the most consistent at decreasing oil production.

And we see this to some effect in some scale with the topicals and then to a much larger scale with the systemics.

But I think if you're picking one ingredient to decrease the oil production, this would be mine.

Retinols also increase the skin cell turnover, which will help decrease those pores from retaining as much of the sebum that's produced.

I guess they do through increasing the collagen and restructuring some of the collagen.

I think they might target the architecture of these pores in a way that a lot of other things won't.

Some of that's theory crafting again, but that's another reason I like retinoids in this space.

Retinoids, obviously a favorite ingredient for this.

So I would say definitely those are the top two.

And then you can add in third ingredient niacinamide, which additionally will decrease and regulate oil production.

I would say third would probably be niacinamide and green tea kind of tied in this category for oil production.

But the main heavy lifters in this category are going to be retinol and salicylic acid.

I mean, it doesn't matter because you can actually use both.

So what I would do is use a retinol at night, salicylic acid in the morning or retinol at night, salicylic acid cleanser either morning or night.

So the good thing is you can target from two different directions and that's going to really reduce the amount of times you have to use pore strips, reduce the buildup of your sebaceous filaments, and additionally make your pores look smaller over time.

A nice thing about that third ingredient, niacinamide, is you can incorporate this almost anywhere.

There are some cleansers with niacinamide in it.

That's probably my least favorite place to use it.

I think its benefits stem largely as a leave-on, but you can find this in your actives.

You can use a dedicated niacinamide product.

Incorporating a salicylic acid cleanser with a retinol or retinoid leave-on with your niacinamide in your moisturizer SPF, that's kind of my favorite combination.

And then green tea, some green tea toners out there that are also really lightweight and nice, and then also green tea emulsion gels or emulsion somethings as well.

We know the ingredients that are effective, but let's make a simple routine here.

It's got a low concentration of salicylic acid, but will help to lift all that oil from the skin and also help to mildly exfoliate.

And then follow that with a sunscreen that has niacinamide in the morning.

Elta MD, I think, has been one of our favorites and one of the workhorses in this space.

It's just very lightweight, has niacinamide as well.

Another one that I've really loved and we've really loved recently is Isntree, which is a brand I think that you should check out.

But this has the hyaluronic acid, watery sun gel.

Another nice way to sneak it into your routine.

It's like you're not wearing sunscreen at all, which is really, really nice.

You're getting in that salicylic acid and that niacinamide.

You can slip in that CeraVe SA Cleanser again because it's gentle enough to use twice a day.

And then you can follow it with a gentle retinol, CeraVe Resurfacing Retinol.

Your prescription to retinol is going to get that job done.

You've been liking this other one lately.

Yeah, lately I've just been trying out and using this Versh Gentle Retinol Serum.

Has bakuchiol, so it's kind of like that gel lotion hybrid.

I think you could throw in a niacinamide serum there.

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