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As long as you’re washing very gently for only a few seconds, you’re golden. Whether you choose cold, warm, or hot water doesn’t matter.
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As long as you’re washing very gently for only a few seconds, you’re golden. Whether you choose cold, warm, or hot water doesn’t matter.
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January 24th, 2009 at 12:02 am
thank you so much for this video, for YEARS ive been unsure but always fussing over warm water in the beginning of my cleanse and cold at the end. very helpful video
January 24th, 2009 at 9:53 am
Thanks Dan for clearing that up, I had always made sure that I splash my face with cold water after washing to close my pores but probably won’t bother now if it makes no difference. Thought you explained it very well
January 24th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Thanks Dan. I always wonder if I should use hot or cold. Until know I thought the opposite so I used to start with cold and wash so I didn’t open them up my pores with dirt on my face and then after it is clean I would rinse with warm. I guess your right it doesn’t really seem to matter. Thanks for the clarification. You’re the best!
January 24th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Ha ha, OK I’ll just “have fun” from now on while I’m washing my face. This was a great video! You should do more of this mini teaching sessions!
January 24th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
But why do people then steam their faces with hot water to open pores…? And I can only clean the gunk out of the pores on my nose after hot water, not cold. Also, I looked online and I couldn’t find anything about cold water opening pores. Are you sure this is correct?
January 24th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Dan, can salicylic acid be used to close pores? Because my big pores always seem to shrink after i use it.
January 25th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Well, for this boy warm water suits me… I’m not one to freeze my face just to feel “fresh”
January 26th, 2009 at 12:35 am
What are some tips to get rid of redness, mostly overall redness due to tanning without protection and with acne, and maybe even with a little BP once. It’s fading slowly with the use of AHA and BP and tea tree oil and jojobo, etc, but it’s taking forever, it’s been almost 5 months and the spots and redness are still there.
January 26th, 2009 at 11:02 am
While you’re right that hot closes the pores and cold opens, you got a little lost in talking about what hot/cold water does to pores, while there are other benefits to using hot/cold water.
Try wash greasy dishes in cold water and see how far you get.
Warm/hot water is always going to break down the grease better than cold.
While cold water will help with swelling etc. Both have a purpose.
I’d say the best method would be to watch with warm/hot water and then finish with a few splashes of cold.
January 26th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Oh, wow I actually thought the opposite, Dan! Thanks for telling me the truth.
January 26th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
i think dan i completely wrong. his explaination is ridiculous. after all these years u cant just claim this. so gulable. i can visibly see my poors get bigger with warm water. so please show me proof of your claim (:
July 19th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
i’m here thinkin the same thing anonymous, sorry dan but the opposite is true, you’re logic is non-sensical
July 25th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
When you fill a bottle with water to the top and you freeze it, it expands and sometimes cracks the bottle. So I’m guessing the opposite happens when you heat water up. The particles in the water move faster and they get more condensed. When water is frozen the particles expand and stay stationary or move very, very slowly. Sorry Dan but I really think you have it the opposite way. Although you are right about the amount of pores on your skin, using warm or cool water won’t make a crucial or substantial difference to pore size. Although I tend to rinse my cleanser off using cool water because it makes my skin feel more fresh and clean.
August 21st, 2009 at 6:15 am
desiree…that’s because water is VERY different from everything else out there.
and what he says DOES make sense…not sure how you guys can’t see his logic. that said, i still don’t know fact from fiction regarding this topic.
August 26th, 2009 at 1:58 am
Cold water. It got rid of my pimples (the big, the bad and the ugly) and did I say, the ones that hurt so much. Love cold water.
Take a bath or shower in cold water, pure cold, not hots….!!!! It’s the best for the skin.
August 26th, 2009 at 2:02 am
Dan cannot really tell what’s best for you. Try it for yourself. I had been taking hot water because we say it feels good and gets rid of the oils? Wrong!!!! It gives you more oil. It makes your face so much oilier, which will cause more acne.
Try taking cold showers for just even a couple of days. No hot water involved. And you’ll notice a big difference.
September 15th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
liarrr
September 26th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
What the hell are you talking about?!!
October 23rd, 2009 at 8:29 pm
you’re wrong. if you did physics at uni like i have, you would know that heating a sheet of metal with a hole in it will expand the dimensions of the metal AND the hole. it may be counter-intuitive but its true.
so no, hot water doesnt shrink your pores, it makes them a fraction wider.
October 25th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Hmm this is not true through personal observation…if I put a warm cloth on my skin, I can visibly see the bigger pores. When Ben said is true.
November 16th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Dan, can we see your evidence please?
Cheers,
Jay.