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Bouncy Bright Facial Brightening Mask.

Drunk Elephant Bouncy Bright Facial Brightening Mask
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About this product

A cream mask containing 10% azelaic acid and 1% salicylic acid, designed to brighten skin and address acne, hyperpigmentation, and post-acne marks.

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The Guru Index verdict

86%

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What the gurus are saying

Gurus are consistently enthusiastic about the formula and results, especially for acne, post-acne marks, and uneven skin tone. The recurring complaint is the high price point; multiple reviewers note that comparable azelaic acid products exist at lower costs. Most recommend using it as a treatment mask layered into evening routines, and praise its matte finish and versatility for different skin types and sensitivities.
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"The Drunk Elephant Bouncy Bright Facial Brightening Mask has niacinamide and phloretin, which is another brightening ingredient that also has anti-aging benefits and helps improve skin tone and brightening. We've got glutathione, alpha lipoic acid, and ergothioneine, which helps suppress melanin production. It's a great brightening product. Drunk Elephant has done a few things right and that is one of them."
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"It's kind of a mask cream. You want to use this in your evening routine. It's got 10% azelaic acid, 1% salicylic acid. Then it's also got ferulic acid, vitamin E, ceramides, rice bran, and pomegranate extract. So, it is really nice. If this one were more affordable, I'd repurchase it again. This is expensive, but it's pretty nice."
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"The Drunk Elephant Bouncy Bright Facial Brightening Mask has niacinamide and phloretin, which is another brightening ingredient that also has anti-aging benefits and helps improve skin tone and brightening. We've got glutathione, alpha lipoic acid, and ergothioneine, which helps suppress melanin production. It's a great brightening product. Drunk Elephant has done a few things right and that is one of them."
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"The Drunk Elephant Bouncy Bright Facial Mask has azelaic acid 10% and 1% salicylic acid. It runs upwards of 64 bucks."
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"The Drunk Elephant Bouncy Bright Facial is 69 bucks and that one's got 10% azelaic acid, 1% salicylic acid, ceramides, vitamin E, squalane, marula oil. It's really nice, it's expensive. In my opinion, all these other ones I mentioned are also wonderful, so I don't necessarily need to spend a ton to have a nice azelaic acid product."
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"The Drunk Elephant Bouncy Bright Facial is an expensive product but it is one of the best in the market. For the longest time I have always carried the Drunk Elephant azelaic acid. This time I carried Anova and to my surprise this product worked really really well on me when I was in India. I realized that even though I was not breaking out, I was getting like one small pimple, it was not even a pimple, it was almost like a bump. I was getting one or two odd bumps, my skin was a little red, it was just not looking happy. I had not carried any exfoliates with me, I had not carried my retinol or my tretinoid, so I just started using azelaic acid at that time and I realized how amazing this ingredient is. Using the Anova azelaic acid gave me some great results while I was traveling. There was a tiny bit of redness, that got controlled. The tiny tiny breakout that I was getting did not become one big joint pimple. So I was very grateful for it."
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"This is an actually really good product. Some people I really trust, some influencers that I really admire have given great reviews of this product, and given the fact that it is an ingredient AIC acid, this is 100% purchase for me."
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"This facial mask contains azelaic acid 10% and 1% BHA. In all their serums you get 1% BHA for better absorption. Basically you do your full skincare, apply cream, then apply this on top. This will fade your dark spots. I actually use this on my face as a treatment. After it completely absorbs, then I use a little bit of moisturizer because azelaic acid in general really helps with acne, acne marks, pigmentation things. It also has glycolic acid, which is their TLC Framboise glycolic acid night serum, 10% AHA, 1% BHA, their lactic acid, protein peptides, lactic acid. I have loved and I am super loving this. In fact now when I need to do AHA exfoliation, this is what I repurchase."
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"The Drunk Elephant Bouncy Bright Facial is an expensive product but it is one of the best in the market. For the longest time I have always carried the Drunk Elephant azelaic acid. This time I carried Anova and to my surprise this product worked really really well on me when I was in India. I realized that even though I was not breaking out, I was getting like one small pimple, it was not even a pimple, it was almost like a bump. I was getting one or two odd bumps, my skin was a little red, it was just not looking happy. I had not carried any exfoliates with me, I had not carried my retinol or my tretinoid, so I just started using azelaic acid at that time and I realized how amazing this ingredient is. Using the Anova azelaic acid gave me some great results while I was traveling. There was a tiny bit of redness, that got controlled. The tiny tiny breakout that I was getting did not become one big joint pimple. So I was very grateful for it."
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"This product has helped my acne in a way that you can't even imagine. After Diwali, when I had a really bad acne breakout from overloading my body with lactose and sugar, I was really struggling with it, and this product has helped it to 90 percent. I have some marks, but this has faded it out to the next level. I recommend this product for anyone who has texture, bumpy skin, acne, acne marks, or if you just want brightening in your overall skin tone. My skin tone and skin strength is strong because I use so many actives, so I can use this three to four times a week comfortably, layer it with actives, use it with everything. But if you are new, then use this alone or layer it slowly with your other products. This is going to brighten. The formula is matte. When you apply it, it has this kind of a stopper, and you will literally take a little bit, apply it, and two to three seconds after it dries on your face, this will be totally matte."
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"Azelaic acid can help with brightening the skin, improving post-acne marks, hyperpigmentation, and salicylic acid is a great product for unclogging pores and helping with acne. All around this is just a really elegant product to use, almost like a treatment for me with my hormonal acne kicking back up postpartum leaving post-acne marks. I really loved using this a few times a week almost in place of my chemical exfoliant because the 1% azelaic acid itself is a chemical exfoliant. If you have more oily skin, I can certainly see that you could probably use this more frequently. I recommend leaving it on like a sleeping mask, finishing off the rest of your routine and avoiding other chemical exfoliants, any other serums that have alpha or beta hydroxy acid, and certainly probably want to avoid your topical retinoid, then just finish off with a lightweight moisturizer and apply this on as like a sleeping mask or just in place of your moisturizer depending on your skin needs. This would be like a moisturizer and treatment in one."
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"The Drunk Elephant Bouncy Bright Facial is so nice. This is one of those masks that you add as a treatment at the very end of your skincare routine before sunscreen during the daytime or just at the end if you're doing your skincare at night. I love that this has a little bit of acne fighting ingredients in it and it brightens the skin as well. It's supposed to correct and clarify. It's got 10% AHC acid and 1% salicylic acid so it really just helps with any sort of acne issues and brightens the skin which I love."
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