Medical treatment may be needed for acne and blackheads.

Microdermabrasion, peels, jet hydration and a tailored skin care regimen can also specifically reduce blackheads.

Pores are far more challenging. They are essential structures in the skin and advertisements that promise to permanently reduce or obliterate them are quite misleading. Good skin care can keep them minimised and ‘cleaned out’. Lasers can certainly build up the collagen around the pores, thus reducing their appearance but some degree of maintenance, e.g. an annual treatment, may be necessary.