Pores are small passageways through which hair reaches the surface of your skin. The small openings also have additional roles that contribute to your health: Pores act as ducts, allowing oil to travel from under-the-skin glands to the surface to condition the dermis. Aside from that, the tiny holes are one of the paths your body uses to get rid of toxins. In fact, during exercise, your pores become enlarged to facilitate the excretion of waste.
The Body and Exercise
As Dr. Shiv Das Diwadi explains in “Naturopathy for Perfect Health,” it is not only calories that you burn during exercise. The physical workout raises your body’s temperature, burning the toxins that have accumulated inside. After the incineration, the waste needs an outlet to leave your body, and your pores serve as that outlet.
Skin Pores and Exercise
During physical exercise, your pores become dilated concurrently with the burning of toxins. The enlarged skin openings allow the easy passage of waste that is carried in your sweat out of your body. After this cleansing is finished, the pores return to their natural size. It is worth pointing out, however, that pore size varies according to your genetic makeup, and they become larger as you age and your skin loses elasticity, says a June 2011 article in “The New York Times."
A Potential Risk
Sometimes dirt as well as oil and sweat flowing through your pores clog them. As a result, they become enlarged and the waste collected in them causes skin inflammations in the form of pimples. The toxin elimination that physical exercise promotes contributes to this problem when the waste stays lodged in the pores. The dirt buildup expands the skin openings, making them appear enlarged.
Post-Exercise Pore Care
Author of "Complexion Perfection!" Kate Somerville recommends rinsing your face with water immediately after a physical workout. The practice washes away the waste just released through your pores, and it keeps the dirt from accumulating in the skin openings. Writing for “The New York Times,” Catherine Saint Louis also says that cleaning your skin with products containing salicylic or glycolic acid regularly helps to keep your pores unclogged. In the same article, Louis interviews several dermatologists who recommend an array of treatments, from exfoliation to a $300-a-session deep-pore cleansing done by a suction machine.
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