Are Those Really Blackheads?
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- čas přidán 8. 04. 2016
- Do you just hate those little bumps all over your nose? Don’t be a hater, they’re just doing their job! Learn how in this SciShow Quick Question.
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I have so many of them, my nose looks like a goddamn strawberry
+toastsandwich lol me too
Haha that's the best way to put it! If someone makes fun of my nose now I'm totally gonna blow it off and say "naw dude. My nose is a beautiful strawberry"
same.
Makes me want to cut off a slice and rub it on my nipples.
This is how I've always put it! I've struggled with them since I can remember. :(
wish I knew this before I started freaking out over my nose pores
#losttime
true
+trapease
Right? The more you learn eh?
+trapease Yeah wow this was a fantastic video. THANKS SCISHOW!
+trapease i never cared what they were i just like to make thing pop and knowing that they will come back means more fun for me
this is actually kind of reassuring
+Geena C very
It definitely makes me think twice about how acne commercials effect us.
self confidence boost
still hate those huge nose pores though
+Ichtio Stega Do you have documentation for that? Not arguing, just interested.
***** No worries. I will just assume the video's facts were checked, then.
I know this is 1 year ago. But no, peeling blackheads only really removes the "blackhead", but not the entire pore. Your pore is like a straw, it's long, by peeling them using nose strips, you're only peeling the top of it, not cleaning the entire shaft.
It's better to use BHA to really cleanse everything from top to bottom.
Watching this while having a nose strip on.... Great...
hahaha it's totally worth the satisfaction of pulling it off though :'D
Be careful with the nose strips though because they can end up making the pores bigger and more noticeable over time :)
This, unfortunately, is so true. I used to use a nose strip before special occasions, like a wedding or party. Now I can't go a week without using one. Otherwise my nose looks so awful.
Exfoliation is less harmful than nose strips.
Camryn Yates I wanna try the black ones
genuinely happy i watched this, made me feel better about my nose
Same. I thought they were blackheads. Tried so hard to get rid of them.
ive done so many really bullshit ways of trying to get rid of them too! and to think i should have just gone through life without worrying about them, this is genuinely something they need to teach in school, like, along with the whole "puberty" lesson would be nice.
IM UGLY AND IM PROUD
LOUDER!
Is that what he calls it
Kyle Townsley If that's your real picture, you're beautiful as hell. (though I get the joke)
+Emerald Nightshadow thank you! :D
But HOW? YOU'RE LITERAL PERFECTION
This video made me feel so much better about my skin. I have spent the longest time in angst over the cloggy things in my pores, and to know that they are meant to be there filled me with relief.
It's amazing how easy it is to be brainwashed into thinking that normal human features are flaws to be fixed (with a variety of products, of course).
THANK. YOU. I needed this information. They bothered me a lot.
IT REALLY WAS DISTURBING
Ugh. Hank. You're ruining the fun of popping my "blackheads"
Lol
Ew
+Xileer Torias I have been popping my nose due to those whiteheads for a looong time.... I think I have an infection now???
lol me too but he's right, I have tons of scarring around my nose now. :/
ashleighBeeBee123 comment👍😊
ashleighBeeBee123 heh gross.. :p lol my sister messes with her face like 24/7.. I never touch my face and have had like 3 pimples ever in my whole life! haha
this guy is like the hank green for science
Considering he's Hank Green's brother, I'd say that's precisely what he is.
Sorry, your comment threw me off, this is Hank Green, his brother is John Green, the other guy I belive you meant to mention.
wtf he is hank green
He is the Hank Green. For Science!
Blake Bezerra who the eff is Hank?
Thank you!!!!! I'm stopping now. You made the world a little less ugly.
wow.... i wish this video came out like.... 5 years ago
why
+Im That Guy Deal With It. hhhh yeah
Me too. Wait...
Wait-
what the actual-
The sebaceous filaments on my nose are huge :/
Don't use elmer glue, my god! Just like pore strips they can rip and cause the pores to enlarge. Use a correctly formated beta hydroxy product (salicylic acid, which is oil soluble) such as stridex in the red box.
Did no one understand the point of this video?
Same
I feel like this is supposed to make me feel better but now I'm just kind of annoyed that I'm meant to put up with those ugly things...
same :(
well do you want your nose to be uglier later?
+dragontamer1012 I want it to be less ugly all the time but we can't always get what we want
+AbiSaysThings yeah, unfortunately.
+AbiSaysThings We only think they are ugly because society has made us believe it as that. Just like people think hair on women's legs are ugly and unfeminine.
humans are primates? they're not plastic dolls?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
+DutchEastIndianApplePie no. It means things that are kinda genetically related to apes, or at least are similar to apes. Even if people dislike being compared to apes, you can admit that people are certainly more similar to them than something like, say, fish.
+DutchEastIndianApplePie Primate refers to the taxonomix order Primates that includes all species of monkeys, apes (including humans and other extinct hominins), lemurs, lorisids and tarsiers (I think I got all the major subdivisions). Basically if it lives in a tree or used to live in a tree, has a big brain, has opposable thumbs and stereoscopic vision as its primary sense it's probably a primate. Other features include prehensile tails and trichromatic vision though these are not as common.
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+Cupcakes678 I don't get it
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sebum. the dirtiest non dirty word
you just blew my mind
Sounds like the words semen and bum had a little...."crash course"
+Nick Kromer I would say that "moist" is dirtier.
Sebum sounds like semen 🤣
+Gi Joe i have no idea if this is legit or a troll
Its so satisfying though. The next SciShow should explain that phenomenon.
Yes , i must know why
+Michael O I think the reason pimple popping or popping anything in general is satisfying comes from an ancient method of self skin cleaning. I believe you can trace almost every human behavior to evolutionary development.
FromMars2Sirius lol yeah. its not that hard to understand
Kind there's already one.
The video about internet mention the weirdly satisfacting things.
Grooming instincts
An answer to a question I didn't know I had.
I needed this video 10 years ago.
Great job, Ceri! I thought this episode was very well written and easy to understand and was surprised to hear that a brand new member of scishow wrote it. Keep it up! :)
you have no idea how pleased i am having watched this. i literally spent the past few days youtubing people using those nose strips to see which worked the best because i am so self conscious about my nose pores ;_; thank you, hank, for letting me know it's normal
I read about this years ago and the lies in commercials infuriated me ever since.
well this video made me feel better about myself.
wtf. why am i just learning this now...
they cover my whole nose, lol... YAY!
+Steven Bandola I KNOW!
+ᅚᅚ Ikr!
Because then companies couldn't sell you blackhead washes, scrubs, and strips!
Morgan Sea The most logical answer.. If we knew, we wouldn't bother...
OH MY GOSH HANK GREEN! I had no idea about this channel. I used to watch your science tutorial episodes. They used to help me understand so many concepts! Your personality and positivity definitely make my day!! So happy to have found this channel!
great vid. short, simple and straight to the point.
I so needed to see this when I was 12. Now, twenty years later, after struggling with acne, skin picking, and all kinds of topical treatments, I now just use water and a silver-laced Norwex cloth to wash my face twice a day. No soap. No medicine. No makeup. And my skin is finally beautiful because I'm not tampering with my skin's natural oils. However, I still get a tiny pimple or two during PMS, but that's hormonal, normal, and they go away quickly and don't hurt like the cystic acne I used to get. I also sometimes splash a little Dead Sea salt water on my face, let it sit for a few minutes, and then rinse off. This is my face regimen. It's perfect for me.
What on earth is a silver-laced Norwex cloth? Are you from space?
+Amber Gohn Norwex is a Norwegian company that makes cleaning supplies. The one I use is a micro fiber cloth with tiny silver threads. The microfiber pulls dirt off my face, and when you ring it out and let it dry, the silver automatically kills bacteria, so the cloth is fresh and clean each use!
I found out about it when I was managing a juice bar. A rep came in and told me all about it and how she doesn't use soap anymore. She didn't even try to sell it to me but instead just wanted to share her truth. She left me her catalog, and then months later I bought the 3-pack facial cloth set on Amazon to give it a try. And now I'm a believer too. You can get the cloths cheaper from a rep rather than Amazon, but regardless of what you spend, the cloths last a good long time. I wash them in the laundry once a week. I haven't tried any other Norwex products, only the face cloths. :)
+Tea4E correction, I use the "body cloths" not the facial makeup remover cloths.
I'm still gonna rip em out with a strip, sorry Hank.
THANK you. I have so many of those and I've always felt like there was something wrong with me that they kept coming back. Thanks for relieving me of that ridiculous source of stress.
How have I never heard this before?
Dafuq, the world
Thanks SciShow
Why are the hairs growing out of birthmarks thicker and grow quicker?
+Felixkeeg they might not be so much thicker as they are darker. This is simply because that area of your skin is darker from an accumulation of melanin.
***** where was length mentioned in all of this? Meth: not even once.
***** While it might appear to be longer, but there's no evidence to assume that it will actually be longer relative to the rest of the hair at full growth - unless you can find citations to support this.
Speed =/= length
Thank you so much for this video! I understand my skin now. Could you please do more on acne and the types of pimples? I'm mainly interested in the natural, uninterrupted healing process of a pimple. What happens when you leave it alone vs popping it? Like what is behind the amazing healing process of skin?
This video was incredibly helpful guys. I have so many of those little black dots on my nose, always have and I'm 27! I was always so sure that they were blackheads and it was so frustrated that I would squeeze one out, thinking I'd removed a blackhead only for it return just as fast! It's great to know that they really aren't something I should be concerned about! Thank you.
Finally got answers to something that has been bothering me for 10 years.
OMFG I know right dude. what the fuck man
+Francois Blom It's what I like to call closure.
Just to add to this, NEVER USE THOSE NOSE STICKERS TO REMOVE ANYTHING. EVER. They are terrible for your skin and do lots of damage.
+Robert Sturm XD
"Just let your skin do it's thing"
says the guy with the flawless face.
Holy CRAP!! this is the question I always wanted answered without knowing it! Thank you Sci-Show staff!!
Fascinating! thanks for this video since I have been looking into this very issue lately. Happened to stumble across this video.
Can you do an episode on Keritosis Polaris?
Yes, please
+ *pilaris
*Keratosis
As in, keratin.
Thank you so much for clearing this up XD
I can't believe I never thought to ask about those. I've always seen them and thought about treatment. Thank you sci show!
Usually my reaction to these videos are "yeah, yeah. Already know that." But this time you have BLOWN MY MIND. I'm 30 years old and all this time I thought I've had permanent blackheads on my nose! Looks like your new staff writer is doing a great job :)
B-but. I've been squeezing the fillaments on my nose for as long as I can remember. I just can't stand them!!
then how come if i squeeze them a string of shit comes out
LMAO
FINALLY! As an aesthetician, I've been trying to tell people this for years. Thank you for covering this.
I've been trying to explain the difference between blackheads and sebaceous filaments to my friends, this video will make this explain so much easier.
glad I only wasted about $100 and a few months of my early adult years trying to remove these from my nose. gave up after noticing every girl I ever dated had them too, and my costly battle was a loss.
I take a deep look at my nose in the mirror when I'm procrastinating from brushing my teeth.
I had one black head on my nose that I let go for a while. It kept getting bigger and more unsightly, until I squeezed it out. Yea though I put Ice on the spot directly afterwards, it left a hole, the size of the black head. The hole was much less visible than the black head but took a couple of years to shrink back to normal pore size.
I had a good friend in high school who had acne and it effected him in big ways, socially. He under took a number of medical treatments that did not cure the acne but when it finally cleared up as an adult, there was almost no scarring.
Serious acne can have major effects on a person because of the massive social insecurity that often accompanies it.
Ceri's first video! I'm a SciShow Tangents fan, it's 2024, and I'm just happy to witness this moment of history.
NooooooOOOoOo they must die
mte
Well this made me feel much better about myself, thanks :D
I'm loving these skin centered videos. As someone who works in the beauty industry and is a science-loving skeptic, it's hard to convince people that their beliefs about skin are actually misconceptions. So, these are awesome.
ive been picking at these for years thinking they were unusually and abnormally stubborn blackheads. thank you SciShow. you have saved my nose
See leafy, THAT'S WHAT YOU CALL A SHOUT OUT
They tell me to stop picking my face
Dermotillomania will not let me stop
Holy fuck I didn't know that this was a thing for other people until you put a name to it. Thank you for that, the name lets me know I'm not alone
I used to struggle with this too... for over 15 years. I saw a free therapist at my college and he got me to start a picking journal. I found out I had a pattern!!! I was the most anxious and picked my face the most two times a month... right before my period, and right before ovulation. My skin picking was linked to hormones and anxiety. Knowing my pattern eased my anxiety. What helped me most was using just water and Norwex facial cloths (they are threaded with silver) as well as a Mindful Body Awareness email campaign I found. I can't find the email campaign on the web anymore, but I can forward my old emails to you if you like.
I've been bothered by these for years, trying all sorts. That you so much for helping put my mind at ease. I thought I had some kind of repeating infection!
Thank you SciShow.
I only found this out sometime in the last year or so but I really wish I'd known 10 years ago. It would have saved me wasting money on products I didn't need that probably wouldn't have worked anyway because they were mostly alcohol.
You should also waste less money on unhealthy food
+noka5730 damn
+noka5730 savage
Why is there hairgrowing around my nipples?
Same reason hair grows anywhere. Areoli (the darker areas of skin around your nipples) have functioning hair follicles just like any other part of your skin. The hair may be lighter or darker or more of less noticeable depending on the person, but it's totally normal.
+Markus Sandgren I only have 1 or two longer hairs that appear every few weeks... it's like huh wtf
GreyException
I'll get a weird long one out of nowhere once in a while. Same for my nose. Every few weeks a giant one just shows up and makes me sneeze until I can pluck it out.
Here is where I tell you about puberty, son
Why are there nipples growing around my hairs??
This makes me feel better... Thank you
Thank you SciShow, just thank you!
I've spent upwards of a decade detesting my nose and all its little spots, so thank you for this clarification this means a lot to me.
Sucks for me that I have a pimple on my EYEBROW.
literally me rn
november_daydreamer lelz
november_daydreamer it's like a hairy bump. 😖
Baby Craigalicous it's annoying as helllll
its the most annoying thing
My favorite thing is that a Biore ad and an acne treatment video ad both just popped into my feed.
Thanks for clearing that up, Scishow!
Did Ceri write in the thank you as well?
+HansLemurson
He's kinda self-absorbed like that
My brother uses Proactiv religiously. We got so many bottles of the crap I wish I could just toss them out. I always felt they did nothing for him.
worked real good for me
*****
The video explained why they don't work against the nose.
This, changed my life.
That was very helpful, thanks for busting the myth! I always thought that I wasn't taking better care of my skin because of the abundance of blackheads that don't want to go away.
I still call BS that popping zits is always bad. People who say that tend to assume "popping a zit" entails going after it with a pocket knife and not stopping until something comes out. But in my 7 years as a teeneager, every gigantic zit I had would stay for days, if not weeks, until it was ready to be popped, after which, the zit, and any scarring, would go away immediately.
+ERPP8 Yeah same. I think the main concern is that when you pop the zit and release the pus, it can be spread to other pores and therefore create more zits.
When I pop a zit I always wash my face after and if it was really bad, put a little disinfectant on it.
I also try to squeeze it until no more pus come out and it bleeds a bit. The tiny red scab is a lot easier to hide than a pus filled whitehead.
Whenever I pop a zit it's pretty much gone by the next day whereas leaving it means it usually lasts more than a week.
ERPP8 Yeah, I think people who have acne scarring are just way too extreme with it, because I've been squeezing spots for a decade and don't have any scarring whatsoever.
Not, people assume you're using your not washed fingers while opening a small wound.
Where were you when I was 12 years old and spending every penny of my babysitting money on Biore pads?
Great job on this episode!
this is by far the most useful video to me ..... life changing.... seriously.
Welcome Ceri to the Scishow community!! :D
Funny how I was thinking about this topic just earlier today, from a previous video long ago, explaining how pores clog and all that... Ladies and gentlemen, 100k+ years of evolution and our pores still clog up, burst, get infected and inflamed, if you poke or scratch at them, even accidentally. But what's even WORSE, is that we have on top of all that, developed this peculiar, complex brain, that will find the results and effects of the aforementioned aftermath - really, really gross.
Clogged pores don't kill people, so there wouldn't be any reason for us to lose it other than maybe sexual selection.
+Daniel Renard much like what was explained in the butt hair video, not every trait has an evolutionary purpose. Neutral traits are likely to persist. If there is not evolutionary pressure in favor of a trait but also not a significant amount against a trait, the trait will probably stay even if it's annoying. Meaning acne never caused someone to die or be unable to breed, at least not back then. A long time ago if a human was afflicted with acne their potential mate did not have the privilege of being as picky about skin as we tend to be now.
MaxSnow24
Yeah, I know. :(
Parents can't magically go: _"Well, dear! You don't like this thing about yourself and I don't like that thing about myself, so let's wave our magic wand and ensure our offspring does not inherit either of these problems."_
thats racist. not all black people live on noses
blackheadsmatter.
stfu. every last one of you....you're not unique or funny. at all
Emi Daria stop being so sensitive to insensitivity, my safe space is the first amendment.
+Tommy Latham what does this have to do with sensitivity? the 1st amendment also gives me the right to say this thread is not funny, and to stfu✌
Emi Daria as a white male I clearly have more authority on the matter of insensitivity, kindly respect that authority and move along.
This pleases me.
+scishow So, if these super-gross little bumps are normal, how come some people just don't have them? And is there anything we can do about them?? Just because they're "normal" doesn't mean we're ok with them ruining our otherwise perfect skin!
make-up
ime makeup sticks to them and makes them more noticeable if I don't squeeze them out beforehand.
Yeah, and it usually makes them worse from what I've seen. As does squeezing them ime. Neither are really solutions, unfortunately... :(
what's the point of disliking this vid ?
Blackheads in denial.
Bob Thebuilder Proof of Google bot being on the loose
It's to show that you didn't like the video
Thanks, man. I appreciate that really useful information. I never would've known that. Unfortunately for me, I believe it's too late for this knowledge to help too much since I think I've already caused quite a bit of skin damage by over scrubbing my nose and surrounding area of my face.
THANK YOU FOR TELLING ME THIS HANK.
THANK YOU.
I wish I had known this as a teenager
literally had a nose strip on watching this
PREACH! OMG YAAASSS!! I'm an Esthetician and I also teach esthetics at a local beauty college. I wish I could show this video to every client who comes in and complains about her (perfectly normal, healthy) "pores" (i.e., the normal follicles on her nose). They INSIST that they need extractions but what they really need is to start being more gentle with their skin and to stop listening to the garbage that Biore and Clearasil and Clean and Clear and Dove feed them on television.
Thank you, thank you, thank you Sci Show! I will be showing this video next week in class.
This video makes me feel so much better about my nose
I was just about to comment that this guy looks like Hank Green...then I realized...
Ay yo, pore strips are hella dope tho.
Thank you for the enlightening. :)
Really great and informative... glad to know the difference.
Explain that to my childhood friends will ya
so how do you tell the difference between blackheads and sebaceous filaments?
I googled for you.
www.livestrong.com/article/546911-difference-between-blackheads-sebaceous-filaments/
HOLY SHIT I NEEDED THIS SO BAD THANK YOU
saw this guy on crashcruise, i've subscribe to scishow and doesnt know he is on this channel too. Well, keep up the good work 😃
Hell no. My blackheads have got smaller and are much smaller thanks to a couple of weeks of daily 'milking'.
"Just let your skin do its thing"
Wow thanks! I've always wondered what was up about those things. Info stored! Yaaay
THANK YOU for such useful information! (I could have REALLY used it, 40 years ago!) :>