These are my tried-and-true acne products. I have sensitive, acne-prone skin. This list is a collection of products that have helped to prevent breakouts and heal my skin when they happen.
🌟 Items with this symbol are my favorite must-have acne p...
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Pimple patches
Microdart pimple patches
Spot treatments, serums, & creams
Post-blemish recovery
Face masks
Pimple patches
Benefits of pimple patches:
• Reduce inflammation
• Speed up healing
• Prevent picking
• Reduce the risk of scarring
• Protect from infection
• Control oiliness
Hydrocolloid patches that extract surface-level zits
Goo Getter is a moisture-drawing hydrocolloid pimple patch that absorbs impurities and goo from the surface-level enemy (aka whiteheads) to quickly improve its appearance. Most hydrocolloid patche...
ZitSticka - GOO GETTER Pimple Patch
🌟 An effective pimple patch that's stays put and is affordable!
Using near-invisible hydrocolloid, the this patch speeds up the healing process for acne by creating a protective barrier while absorbing impurities and secretions beneath the skin in ...
The Klog - Soft Shield Pimple Patch
Absorbs gunk, protects from picking, and supports healing
🏅2024 Allure Best of Beauty Award Winner - Best Pimple Patch
🏅2024 Cosmopolitan Reader's Choice Beauty Awards winner - Best Pimple Patch
Mighty Patch is a smarter way to handle pimples ove...
Hero Cosmetics - Mighty Patch Original
Speeds up pimple healing and helps prevent acne scars
The COSRX patch has a uniquely developed hydrocolloid material that effectively extracts impurities. This material creates a moist environment, which makes the healing process faster. They protec...
COSRX - Acne Pimple Master Patch
🌟 Remove impurities and conceal blemishes
The hydrocolloid pimple patches from Good Molecules are ultra-thin for minimal visibility and stay on longer. They instantly conceal blemishes without sticky residue left behind. Enjoy clearer looking skin ...
Good Molecules - Pimple Patches
🌟 absorbs gunk and protects from picking - these are some of my favorite pimple patches!
These easy-to-use, medical-grade hydrocolloid patches gently absorb gunk, protect from picking, and support quick, effective healing. Translucent design works ...
Peach Slices - Acne Spot Dots
Fast-acting, non-drying patches
These vegan hydrocolloid patches are clinically proven to absorb all pimple fluids and shrink your blemishes in hours, leaving behind clear and smooth skin.
These patches are good for all skin types and attached to ...
good light - Luna Pimple Patches
Power patches for acne-prone skin
Like a cute bandaid with major benefits, these powerful little patches are made to suck up and draw out the moisture, fluid, and impurities within a blemish, leaving you with calmer, clearer skin. They also work to ...
BLUME - Buds Power Patches
Clear, super-thin, and comfortable
Invisible+ goes undercover to reduce the look of pimples in 6-8 hours with the gunk-absorbing power of Mighty Patch.
Made of hydrocolloid - a gentle fluid-absorbing gel - that's medical-grade, allergy tested, and...
Hero Cosmetics - Mighty Patch Invisible+
Absorb pus and fluids while you sleep and help prevent picking
🏅 2024 Allure Best of Beauty Award Winner - Best Skincare Steals
PanOxyl's hydrocolloid pimple patches are just a bit thicker than some other dots, but this slight difference in size a...
PanOxyl - Overnight Spot Patches
Microdart pimple patches
Microdart pimple patches are made for early-stage, deep, and blind pimples.
Microdarts are tiny spikes that flood the heart of your early-stage pimple with targeted ingredients, clearing the upcoming drama before it gets real. They help with redu...
🌟 Microdart patches made for deep, blind pimples
KILLA is a pimple patch with spikes powered by ZitSticka’s signature microdart technology. These tiny microdarts self-dissolve to flood the heart of your early-stage pimple with targeted ingredient...
ZitSticka - KILLA KIT: Pimple Patch for Deep Zits
A deep solution for deep pimples
Below-the-surface zit? Keep it under-the-radar with our innovative microdarts. Hydrocolloid with self-dissolving Melt-Tech® gently absorbs gunk and targets pimples before they pop up with salicylic acid and niacinami...
Peach Slices - Deep Blemish Microdart Patches
The early-stage blemish patch
Nip blemishes in the bud with 395 dissolving Micropoints. These patches target early-stage blemishes by pulling gunk to the surface. It works in 6-8 hours.
Key Ingredients
- Salicylic Acid (unclog pores)
- Beta Gl...
Hero Cosmetics - Mighty Patch Micropoint Patches
An affordable microdart pimple patch!
PatchRX's Spot Patches deliver an optimal blend of sodium hyaluronate, salicylic acid, and nicotinamide through microneedling directly to the pimple for faster healing and minimal scarring.
The microneedle pim...
PatchRX - Microneedle Pimple Patch
Spot treatments, serums, & creams
Spot treatments are concentrated skincare products that target specific blemishes with ingredients that reduce inflammation, kill bacteria, and speed up healing. Spot treatments are applied directly to the pimple.
Serums are skincare products that...
Overnight pimple drying paste
Pimple Paste is an alcohol-free, fast-acting drying paste powered by natural ingredients. It fades the look of spots and blemishes.
Formulated with natural miracle workers including: Willow Bark, Sulfur, Tea Tree Oil,...
iNNBEAUTY PROJECT - Pimple Paste
An invisible blemish fighter
Shield and combat blemishes without sacrificing your makeup look. This Salicylic Acid-backed, spot-targeting gel fights blemishes, clarifies, reduces surface oil, and guards against environmental assailants. Its unique j...
Fenty Skin - Blemish Defeat'r BHA Spot-Targeting Gel
An acne clearing gel pen
Fight the pimple, not your skin. This max-strength acne treatment penetrates to help stop early-stage breakouts in their tracks (before they get bigger). It visibly reduces early-stage pimples in 24 hours, minus the dryness....
Hero Cosmetics - Pimple Correct Gel Pen
A medicated treatment for acne & blackheads - clearer skin in 24 hours!
The most clinically effective acne treatment available over the counter. Acne Serum is an FDA-approved medicated treatment that is clinically proven to treat and prevent all...
A gel cream that helps breakouts, facial redness, dull skin, and uneven texture
Soothe facial redness or blemish-prone skin with the help of this weightless yuzu-infused gel cream. Reveal a clear and smooth complexion with gentle levels of salicylic...
Good Molecules - Yuzu Blemish Gel Cream
Clears and prevents breakouts, exfoliates skin, and lightens post-breakout discoloration
🏅2024 Cosmopolitan Holy Grail Beauty Award Winner - Best Clarifying Serum
Your breakout’s worst enemy. This killer combo of skin-smoothing Lactic and Glycolic...
Facile - Clear Targeted Blemish and Serum
Post-blemish recovery
These products help with the aftermath of compromised skin. Acne treatments often affect the skin barrier, so recovery serums and balms help to nourish and heal skin.
In addition to blemishes, these products may help with dry patches, redness, razor burn, tattoos, sunburn, chafing, lips, cuticles, over-exfoliation, post-extraction, post-laser, post-waxing/tweezing/IPL, or over-sensitized skin.
A balm that handles red spots, bumps, scaly patches, and dark marks
Inspired by first aid ointment, Rescue Balm replenishes skin with powerful antioxidants and peptides. It delivers intense moisture, visibly soothes upset skin, and evens and smooths...
Hero Cosmetics - Rescue Balm
A nourishing balm to heal compromised skin
This ultra-nourishing balm helps with the aftermath of compromised skin quickly- helping it return back to its sublime state.
good light's new moon balm can be used in the aftermath of a blemish, dry patc...
good light - New Moon Balm
🌟 A reparative, skin-soothing serum - it has repaired my skin barrier many times!
A creamy, nourishing serum that calms signs of sensitivity caused by a compromised skin barrier. With its blend of nourishing oils + rebalancing actives, Great Barri...
Krave Beauty - Great Barrier Relief serum
🌟 An easy-to-use stick for skin recovery
A targeted and convenient stick formula that optically reduces red and healing scars, stretch marks, and post blemish marks. Formulated with 60% silicone, onion bulb ferment, centella asiatica triterpenoids ...
Prequel - Scar Solutions Silicone Scar Stick
Face masks
These masks treat acne by clarifying skin, absorbing excess oil, and reducing inflammation. Some acne masks also contain ingredients that can help prevent new breakouts.
A pore-clarifying clay mask
As powerful as it is gentle, this mask detoxifies, clarifies, and balances. The pretty pink super product is made of 3 incredible clays. Together, they join forces to get deep and work their natural powers fast, making po...
BLUME - Superpower Clay Mask
A clarifying + calming mask
A clinical-strength clarifying mask that reduces breakouts in 24 hours while improving the skin barrier. Its unique dual-acid formula with hypochlorous acid unclogs pores, soothes painful bumps, and calms redness. Use on ...
Topicals - Clearly Breakout Mask
A skin reset mask with the power of snail mucin
Skin off balance? Snails to the rescue. Bouncy, jelly-texture mask with fast-acting 95% snail mucin helps tackle dehydration, dark spots, zits, and more. Skin instantly feels refreshed and soothed, whi...