Acne patches, when loaded with the right ingredients, can shorten a spot’s lifespan by days
I receive many Korean products and, as ingenious and influential as they often are, for every weightless sunblock or indelible mascara there is some wilfully gimmicky landfill fodder (snail mucus primer and a sheet mask made to look like a giant panda?). But I must give acne patches, when loaded with the right ingredients, their due: they can be miraculous.
These are small, round hydrocolloid bandages that stick on to individual spots, whether fledgling or monstrous, and quickly suck out oil and pus without attacking the surrounding skin (those who treat cold sores and feet blisters will be familiar with the basic principle). The patches can shorten the lifespan of spots by days, and even see off redness and swelling in about two hours. (They expand as they absorb, like an ant swollen with nectar. Deeply satisfying.)
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