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Hydrocolloid bandages are about the closest thing you can get to a vacuum for acne. And people all over TikTok are proving just that. They're sticking the gel-textured strips all over their faces where they are experiencing breakouts. Over time, the bandages go from clear to speckled with white spots where they've sucked the nastiness out of your skin. It's […]
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While experiencing a recent cystic acne breakout, a Reddit user who goes by Infinitesimallyok decided to reach for an unexpected product at the back of her cabinet: diaper cream. "I was at my wit's end," she wrote on the SkincareAddiction subreddit. "None of my spot treatments were doing anything to these gigantic monsters, and I figured how much worse can […]
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Of all the various types of acne out there, cystic acne can be the most frustrating to treat. But a new kind of pimple patch with "microneedles" might change that. Cystic acne is notoriously tenacious. Rooted deep in the skin and caused by a combination of hormones and genetics, cystic pimples often take forever to clear — and when they […]
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