Salicylic Acid Explained: How This BHA Calms Acne and Oily Skin
Salicylic acid is one of the most talked-about ingredients for acne-prone and oily skin, but few people know how it actually works. Dr Yasmin Tayeb of Wellface breaks down what this beta hydroxy acid does inside the pore, why it suits humid summer weather, and how the Obagi CLENZIderm range uses it to keep breakouts, inflammation and shine under control.
Transcript
Good morning everyone. So what is salicylic acid? Everyone is asking about it.
Maybe because the season is really nice and hot at the moment. What is it? What does it do?
And where do we get it from? So I have two amazing products which I love, which is the Cleansy Derm range from Obagi, the face wash and the pore therapy, which is really good at reducing the acne load, inflammation in the skin, and really keeping the skin beautifully exfoliated, nice and healthy and getting rid of that dead skin layer. So if you are a patient who is acne prone, or when you do get spots, they're really juicy and they're really thick, then salicylic acid is a very good product for you to keep the inflammation load much lower.
If you're a patient who has a lot of oily skin and when the weather is really humid, like now, that it really starts to bother you, then again, this range is really good for you. It keeps the skin really beautifully exfoliated, keeps the dead skin layer down and keeps the inflammatory load much, much lower and the skin is beautifully healthy and clear.
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