If you can't stand having the white head of a big pimple staring back at you in the mirror and you chose to pop them like I do, then Mario Badescu drying lotion isn't going to be very helpful for you. Just like many others have suggested, this lotion seems to work wonders on white heads, but once the white head is gone, it just dries your skin out. I dabbed it on a few blemishes after I had popped them (honestly, who waits around for them to pop on their own...?), and though they looked slightly less noticeable in the morning, the blemishes became peel-ey and dry by the morning. I'm not dissatisfied...