The onset of a breakout can be painful, frustrating, and downright depressing, especially if all your efforts prove futile. This acne spot treatment is your sigh of relief. “Formulated with 0.5 percent salicylic acid and LHA, this spot treatment can help to address whiteheads, blackheads, deeper breakouts, and post-acne marks,” explains Dr. Garshick. It can be used on the face, chest, or back to freeze and flatten breakouts in just a few days—sometimes even overnight.
Key ingredients: Salicylic acid, LHA, thermal spring water
Size: 1.35 fl oz
An ELLE editor says: “My skin has been going haywire recently, and as a beauty editor with numerous skin care formulas in her arsenal, none of my go-to products seemed to be calming my skin down. Then, I started spot-treating all my new breakouts with this acne cream and woke up to find most of them flattened. I wasn’t so easily convinced, so I gave it another go, and I have no notes! This cream is a game changer for my acne-prone girlies.”—Nerisha Penrose, beauty commerce editor