How to Make Nasal Strips More Enjoyable

Nose or nasal strips are proven to improve breathing thanks to their ability to increase oxygen intake. People mainly use them during sleep to stop or alleviate snoring. Nasal strips are particularly helpful for congestion of upper airway since they can relieve congestion from allergies and colds.

However, most people have a love-hate relationship with nasal strips and find it a guilty pleasure to wear them. Yes, it can take a lot of time to get used to wearing it, but eventually it’s worth effort.

In this post, you can find a few tips on how to make nasal strips for sleeping more enjoyable. 

Prepare Your Skin with Hot Water

Before applying a facial mask or cleanser, it is essential to open up your pores for the best effect. Same goes to pore strips. If you properly prep your skin before putting the strip on your nose, the product will be doing its job much better.

All you need to do is pour hot water into a bowl (make sure it’s clean), lean over that bowl, and drape a towel over your head. In fact, this is the same process as with inhalation. Alternatively, you can fill the sink with hot water and achieve the same effect. That will also help you open your pores.

Make Use of Hot Air

Here’s a trick with hot air. For this purpose, you can make use of your hairdryer. If you are a ‘nasal-strip-lover,’ then you surely know that waiting for about ten minutes when you wear a nasal strip can feel like the eternity. You can considerably reduce that waiting period by slapping on your nose strip with hot air after showering and before starting to blow-dry your hair. When blow-drying your hair, the cold and hot air that hits your nasal strip creates paper mache feeling very quickly.

However, this trick is only useful for short-term strip wearing which is mainly intended to fighting the blackheads. It doesn’t refer to nasal strips for sleeping when you are supposed to wear the strip all night long.

Custom Cut Your Nose Strips

If you have used various brands of nasal strips, you’ve probably noticed that each brand features the unique design in terms of the notches and shape of strips. You have also noticed that some strips don’t have fine cuts along the edges and therefore are not enjoyable to wear at all. Don’t throw them in a garbage bin. You can still use them with an extra step. It’s a good idea to custom cut those strips on your own by utilizing the nail scissors. By cutting the chin strips in half, you can successfully convert them into nasal strips. Just be sure to gently snip the lines along the sides.

Consider Buying the Cheaper Ones

Are you looking for the more expensive nasal strips? Why pay full price for costly strips when the cheaper ones can do the trick. The beauty products make the customers grow to trust, as people regard expensive products as the best deals. Wrong!

It’s definitely not worth paying over $15 for the nasal strips. You will be surprised how less expensive strips could be enjoyable to wear while still providing the same effect. Just make sure to buy those designed with springy strips for the best results.