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2% BHA Acne Spot Treatment.

SkinFix 2% BHA Acne Spot Treatment
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About this product

A spot treatment with 2% salicylic acid and 10% azelaic acid, plus kaolin clay and niacinamide, designed to treat active acne and post-breakout discoloration.

Full ingredients

Guru Score

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2 of the 3 takes here are sponsored by the brand. That leaves a single independent take, which is not enough to verify a score, so we are holding it back rather than publishing a number built on paid reviews. The takes are below, each labeled.

3Gurus
3Yay
0Mixed
0Nay

What they liked

  • Blends into skin completely clear
  • Doesn't dry out or flake
  • Works under makeup

What they flagged

    Nothing. None of the experts who reviewed it raised a problem.

    What the gurus are saying

    The combo of salicylic acid and 10% azelaic acid does double duty: it kills active pimples and fades the dark marks they leave behind, with azelaic acid being a rare find in over-the-counter products. Reviewers praise how gently it works: no drying, no redness, and it blends completely clear so you can layer under moisturizer or reapply up to three times daily. Good for hormonal breakouts and rosacea in specific areas.
    Synthesized from 3 expert reviews · most recent take April 2024

    What the gurus are saying.

    Every take we've logged from this product's reviews across YouTube. Click any row to watch the moment they said it.

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    Yay
    "If you're looking for a BHA, which is salicylic acid, if you're oily, acne prone, living in a really humid environment and your sebaceous glands are just out of control, this is what you want to use. Salicylic acid is for oil lovers and SkinFix has a 2% BHA and salicylic acid acne spot treatment. Can you use this on more than spots? You absolutely can. It is though expensive if you're going to use it for your whole face because it's 30 bucks, but you can definitely put it like as a nose mask."
    Yay
    "This from SkinFix is absolutely wonderful. It's made for acne prone skin, it's from the acne plus line, and I absolutely love this. I can literally just spot this on where I need it and it helps to drive a pimple, but it's not as drying as the Terminator 10."
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    "This from SkinFix is absolutely wonderful. It's made for acne prone skin, it's from the acne plus line, and I absolutely love this. I can literally just spot this on where I need it and it helps to drive a pimple, but it's not as drying as the Terminator 10."
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    "This is brand new from Skin Fix and oh my god is this good. This isn't the best of the best but this is a good one. This is an azelaic acid product, and look at what it says underneath the sticker: the original name of this product was the azelaic acid BHA spot treatment. When you look at the ingredients, this is an azelaic acid spot treatment. The first ingredient is water and literally the second ingredient is azelaic acid, so you have a decent amount in here, and then you also have salicylic acid as well as kaolin clay. This is more of a spot treatment so you put it on pimples, but it actually blends into the skin completely clear. I find that this is actually easier to use under makeup than something like The Ordinary. This is a really nice one, it is relatively inexpensive, and this is just a beautiful fun formula that you could spot treat on or you could use all over. If you are someone who gets rosacea in very defined areas, this is fantastic. Or if you're someone who gets breakouts around that time of the month and you just don't want to use a traditional drying benzoyl peroxide spot treatment, this is one that does not dry out your skin, and this is fantastic. Like The Ordinary, this one is fragrance free, but this one applies more elegantly on the skin, and I find that it doesn't ball up quite the same with the kaolin clay. I do like this better as a spot treatment that you put on and rinse off rather than a leave on, but this is a fantastic one."
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    "This is from Skin Fix. This is their Two Percent BHA Spot Treatment. They're actually a brand that is female-founded in Canada and they are fantastic. Most of their products are made for eczema and dermatitis-prone skin. This is their acne line and this is a fantastic formula and it's actually quite gentle. You can apply this up to three times a day. You literally leave it on and up to three times a day you can reapply. Some spot treatments leave you red or they leave you flaky and you can kind of see that there's a spot treatment there or a pimple patch. For glass skin, that's not really what we're going for. This doesn't dry things out yet it still treats the problem so you can literally put this on your serum and just underneath your moisturizer and you can reapply that throughout the day."
    Yay
    "It's combining salicylic acid and 10% azelaic acid. So not only is it treating the potential acne spot, but it also is treating dark spots that can occur afterwards because of that salicylic acid and the azelaic acid. And that's where we move in the direction of a product with multiple ingredients working towards a common goal, which is always a very nice thing. Almost always give extra points for something cohesive like that. Great product. Is it the best product? I don't know. We're going to keep going through the potential spot treatments here today and we'll find out."
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    "I like this one from Skinfix because it's actually a really interesting formula. They're using salicylic acid, 10% azelaic acid, kaolin clay, and niacinamide. This one is great as a spot treatment because not only is it going to spot treat with the salicylic acid, but the azelaic acid is really good for those post-inflammatory dark spots that occur. So you can use it for both as a dark spot treatment and as an active pimple treatment. I'm loving that they put azelaic acid into these products because this is the sleeper ingredient that's available over the counter but missing in a lot of over-the-counter acne products. It does double duty. It treats the acne, it helps with the post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation."
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    "It's combining salicylic acid and 10% azelaic acid. So not only is it treating the potential acne spot, but it also is treating dark spots that can occur afterwards because of that salicylic acid and the azelaic acid. And that's where we move in the direction of a product with multiple ingredients working towards a common goal, which is always a very nice thing. Almost always give extra points for something cohesive like that. Great product. Is it the best product? I don't know. We're going to keep going through the potential spot treatments here today and we'll find out."

    What the evidence says.

    Independent of what the gurus think, this is what the published research supports about the main active ingredients here.

    Niacinamide

    Niacinamide has evidence behind it for redness, uneven tone and supporting the skin barrier, and it is usually well tolerated even by skin that reacts to most things.

    Source: DermNet

    Salicylic acid

    Salicylic acid dissolves in oil, so it can get into a pore rather than just working on the surface. That is why it has long-standing evidence for blackheads and milder acne.

    Source: DermNet

    Azelaic acid

    Azelaic acid has clinical evidence for both acne and rosacea, and it is one of the gentler options for calming redness while also working on marks left behind.

    Source: DermNet

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