Anyone else get those little hard white spots on their face?

[CarrieOakey]

Just under the skin. How do you get rid of them? As I am getting older I seem to be getting them more frequently.

Me!!!! What the fuff are they?? They seem to scratch off me but I feel almost as spotty as when I was a teenager. I'm 39 by the way.

Do you mean Millia?

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You can have them dealt with in a salon, or if really confident you can lance them with a sterile needle and gently press them out yourself...

Yeah I get them now and again. I usually find myself messing about with them and slowly but surely they come to the surface and you can squeeze the little hard ball of white stuff out. They take ages though!

They're called milia. You can make a little hole with a sterile pin and squeeze them out but it's not really recommended - it tends to leave a worse mark than squeezing a whitehead IME and looks worse than the spot itself. Sometimes if you give them a very very gentle squeeze every now and then for a good while, they sort of work themselves out, but they're better left alone I think.

If you go to a salon they can zap them with an electrolosis needle and they sort of fall off a few days later.

Dont squeeze - can make it worse.
I use a sterile pin to pop them out, works a treat and is much easier.

I got some recently on my cheeks and used Alpha H Liquid Gold on them fir a few nights on the trot and it worked a treat. That stuff is magic!

Bane of my bloody life! Have yet to find somewhere that treats them though. On a related but off topic note, someone on my FB has named her daughter Milea... Hope she's pronoucning it as Millie because that's just weird.

Bane of my bloody life! Have yet to find somewhere that treats them though. On a related but off topic note, someone on my FB has named her daughter Milea... Hope she's pronoucning it as Millie because that's just weird.

As mentioned they can be pierced with a sterile needle and you can dig the wee hard white ball out.
Using face cream containing a high level of vitamin A will prevent them (ROC have one) but watch out it turns your fingernails yellow if you don't wash it off your hands!

I have one near my eye annoyingly.
Would a beauty salon remove it? If not what should I do?

I just noticed one of these today!
What type of salons do it??

A dermatologist can remove them for you.