My senior esthetician told me to cut back on extraction pressure

I used to press hard on stubborn comedones thinking I needed to clear everything. My coworker Sarah at the spa in Denver told me I was causing more inflammation than helping. She showed me her method with light pressure after 10 minutes of steam, and my clients have way less redness now. Has anyone else had to totally change their extraction grip after years of doing it wrong?

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caseyfox15d ago

Not really that deep, just takes a bit to retrain your muscle memory. Lightening up is solid advice but you're acting like you reinvented the wheel.

parker54315d ago

I trained under a guy in Portland who taught me to really go in on extractions. He said if you don't hear a pop you're not getting it all. Took me about four years before a workshop made me realize I was basically bruising my clients for no good reason. Switching to light pressure with good prep like steam or a humid compress changed everything. Now I do maybe two passes at most with a lot less force and the skin calms down way faster. I was dead wrong about needing to brute force those pores.