It’s an age-old beauty remedy: the old toothpaste on a pimple trick. Hell, even Amanda Seyfried has sworn by it and loves feeling that “burn”.
But does slathering your minty-fresh toothpaste onto a big whitehead really help? Or does it actually do us more harm than good?
“Anything that dehydrates the pimple will give some slight improvement. But there’s no long term benefit from such a treatment,” says Dr Michael Freeman from The Skin Care Centre.