It was May2010, summer and very hot in Bombay/Mumbai. I was hiding in my home. I couldn't dare to go out. Not with my face looking like how it did then. What started with a single pimple, had spread all over my face. Not one or two, there were clusters of them, everywhere. They itched, I scratched, they spread like wild fire.....till I had no plain space left in my face. It was horrible. My face was both painful and itchy at the same time. And I was miserable. My mother suggested remedies. I tried them. They failed. Google and Youtube suggested various remedies as well. I tried. They failed too. It was a dire situation and I had tried everything. From my mom's suggestions of antiseptic creams like boroline, neosporin, aspoline, vicco etc to Youtube/Google's various suggestions of putting raw eggs, castor oil, turmeric, coconut oil, honey, curd and what not. Instead of improving - the condition went worse. I looked horrible and my neighbours too got alarmed at seeing my face. In the end I decided to stop everything. I removed all the muck and debris left from all the various experimental concoctions I had plastered on my face to demolish those pimple clusters. I decided dumping all. Those things were not letting the clusterrs dry out, instead, were trapping whatever germs or bacteria there were, inside. So, taking a soft cotton ball, I started to clean with simple dettol and water solution. I'd keep the dettol soaked cotton ball on top of the clusters for some time. I changed the ratio few times. I found that increasing dettol can even burn the skin ( and scar your skin brown ). So, perfect ratio is a must - not too strong or too mild. And thats what I did the following days. I found the clusters drying up and eventually healing. So, dettol was my cure - and not those other ointments and kitchen ingredients.
So, I found the cure - my saviour ~ the very common 'dettol' from our medicine cabinet. But how about preventing appearance of a pimple in the face altogether for life? From that May in 2010, till 2025 almost, I've never had a single pimple in my life. Of course, I had those itch moments, but, they stopped instantly and never went on to become the dreaded ugly bump called pimple. Its the most amazing find. I don't know the science behind it. But it works like a miracle. So, whenever we feel the slightest itch in any part of our face ( it works mostly on our face ) - take a small bunch of your hair tips - the ends in your hand - like a brush ( see the picture above ), then brush those strands vigorouly on the itchy spot. I guarantee the itch will stop within seconds and no pimple will ever appear!
