Skin Care

How to Get Rid of Chin Acne for Good

If you're suffering from chin acne, pesky hormones are probably to blame. Here's what you can do about it

by Dawn Davis | COMMENT

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Tweaking Your Skin Care Routine So, what are the best products to tackle chin acne? There are countless fancy adult acne products on the market, but here's the truth behind the marketing speak: These products aren't all that different from the products you used when you were a teenager. The active ingredients are all the same. Per FDA regulations, if an over-the-counter product makes an acne claim it has to contain benzoyl peroxide or salicylic acid.

"Even though pimples are localized to the chin, we treat them very similarly to the same types of pimples on the rest of the face," explains Zeichner. He suggests starting with a 2.5-percent benzoyl peroxide product to kill acne-causing bacteria and working your way up to higher concentrations if it's not doing the trick. He also likes salicylic acid for its ability to "remove sticky skin cells that block the pores and eliminate excess oil."

We like La Roche-Posay Effaclar Dermatological System, which won a 2015 Total Beauty Award, because it contains both benzoyl peroxide and salicylic acid, it's gentle enough to use every day and it's a complete system.

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