ZIT HAPPENS: OUR PICK OF THE BEST SPOT TREATMENTS
You’ve got a hot date, and a massive spot plotting the imperfect time to erupt on your forehead. Who you gon’ call? Cult Beauty of course! We’ve rounded up six of the best {blemish treatments} we’ve found, to stop spots in their tracks and speed up their demise. Consider that zit zapped… what’s that? Just the sound of them quaking…
skyn ICELAND's little see-through {Blemish Dots} are the ultimate foil for unwelcome uprisings - nipping spot-growth in the bud, to flout their best efforts to wreck your day. Infused with salicylic acid to 'dissolve' pore-clogging dead cells, just whack on anywhere you sense that trouble's brewing - leave overnight and wake up to clear, problem-free skin.
Wage war on pimples with Odacité's {Pimples Serum Concentrate} - an oil (which seems nonsensical but works), that counsels your complexion to become less easily-enraged. With invigorating black cumin to draw impurities and decongest, alongside therapeutic cajeput which conducts peace-talks with rebellious complexions to prevent an outburst. It's great for those whose skin is dehydrated, mixed-up or especially reactive.
Payot – beloved by French women (and their secret to flawless visages) – wage a two-pronged attack on unwelcome face-guests. The brand’s {Pâte Grise} smells and looks like cement, but the antibacterial shale extract helps draw out embedded impurities, to speed up Mt. Etna’s life cycle. Use in conjunction with {Spéciale 5} – a pimple-punishing cocktail of salicylic acid, tea tree and purifying sulphur – to quickly clear up imperfections, with minimal redness and no tell-tale trace.
Fresh from South Korea - the beating heart of beauty innovation - Mizon's {Blemish Out Pink Spot} goes all ‘Lady Macbeth’ on your blemishes, ousting ‘damn spots’ with its innovative two-phase treatment system. Best applied before bed, the yellow solution and pink powder combine to combat bacteria and gently exfoliate pore blocking dead skin cells with a cocktail of AHAs and BHAs, while soothing calamine then works to quickly calm redness and inflammation. Plus, it looks cute on your nightstand...
And for green fiends,Sonya Dakar's {Blemish Buster} is formulated with 100% natural ingredients to wage 3-pronged attack on imperfections. Starring encapsulated salicylic acid, active probiotics and antiseptic silver ions, this gets straight to the ‘root’ of the problem – clarifying, battling bacteria and accelerating healing to swiftly restore skin to its beautiful, blemish-free best.
Cult Beauty’s Content Editor and a Cult Beauty OG, Verity loves nothing more than the marriage of language and lip balm. A quintessential Libran, she’s a self-professed magpie for luxury ‘must-haves' and always pursuing the new and the niche — from the boujee-est skin care to cutting-edge tech. Balancing an urge to stop the clock with her desire to embrace the ageing process (and set a positive example for her daughter), Verity's a retinol obsessive and will gladly share her thoughts about the time-defying gadgets, masks and treatments worth the splurge...
