Even if you’ve never used a nose strip before, chances are you’re familiar with them.

Much like sheet masks and pimple stickers, pore strips — often known simply as “nose strips,” due to the facial feature’s overwhelming popularity in this skin-care genre — are much like sheet masks and pimple stickers in that they’re bizarrely satisfying to use. This, coupled with their alleged ability to remove buildup from pores, is precisely what makes them so appealing.