Saturday, September 13, 2008

Things They Should Invent: hot compress mask

If you have a zit or clogged pore that won't come out, you're supposed to put a hot compress on it. The problem is that you can't go about your everyday activities with a hot compress. You need one hand to hold it on, and depending on where it is you might have to remove clothes or glasses or something.

What we need is a mask that serves as a hot compress. Not a mask in the sense of an object that you wear on your face, but mask in the sense of cosmetic goop that you put on your skin. You take a bit of goop, put it on the affected area, and it sits there and acts like a hot compress, opening the pore and bringing the contents to a head. It would have to come in a tube or something so you can dispense only a small amount to cover the zit.

Biore Self-Heating Mask does this sort of. It helps a bit with the pores in general and cystic acne drains faster after I use it (plus on occasion it has even tightened up wrinkles, which doesn't make sense but it did happen) but I'd like something more targeted that serves specifically as a hot compress.

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