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How to Get Rid of a Pimple Fast. Don’t let a dermatological disaster get you down. Here
are a half-dozen ways to zap those zits fast! You will need Aspirin A cotton swab Lemon
juice Instant oatmeal Honey An egg Manuka honey Non-gel toothpaste Tea tree oil or witch
hazel (optional) (optional) Eye drops for red eyes (optional) (optional) Hydrogen peroxide
(optional) (optional) and dermatologist (optional) (optional). Step 1. Resist the urge to squeeze
a pimple. You might push bacteria further into your skin, causing an infection that
could lead to scarring. Keep tea tree oil or witch hazel in the house so that as soon
as you feel a pimple starting to bloom, you can dab some on. Both have anti-inflammatory
and anti-bacterial properties that will help nip a zit in the bud. Step 2. Woke up with
a full-blown blemish? Crush an aspirin, mix it with a few drops of water, soak the tip
of a cotton swab in it, and hold the swab against the zit for about 15 seconds. It won’t
make the pimple disappear, but it can reduce redness. Eye drops--the kind for bloodshot
eyes--work too. Step 3. Look in your cupboard: If you have lemon juice, instant oatmeal,
honey, and an egg, you can make a paste out of a teaspoon of each and some of the egg
white. Wash your face, smear the paste on the pimple, leave it on for 20 minutes, and
rinse with warm water. This should further reduce the redness. If you have hydrogen peroxide,
dab some on the pimple first to disinfect it. Step 4. Now that you’ve stopped the
pimple in its tracks, it’s time to blast it off the face of … your face. Pick up
some manuka honey at a health-food store, smear it on a bandage, and stick it on your
pimple before bed. The zit will be far less noticeable by morning. Step 5. If you can't
track down manuka honey, take some toothpaste--the paste kind, not the gel kind--and dab a pea-size
amount on your pimple. When you wake up, the zit should be a shriveled shell of its former
self. Take care not to spread it on the skin surrounding the pimple, or that will dry out,
too. Forget that movie that touted glass cleaner as a zit remedy. It doesn’t work. Step 6.
If a gi-normous zit is threatening to ruin a big day and no home remedies have helped,
visit a dermatologist, who can make it disappear--sometimes within hours--with a single injection of cortisone.
Did you know Though greasy foods are often blamed, acne is actually due in large part
to genetics.