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Bylillie

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Hello, happy chuseok everyone! 🧧♥️ I have small painful pimples that appear on my face, and I am not using any new products currently. I have dry, sensitive skin.. Any suggestions? What products could help me?

Need suggestions for painful pimples
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SashaGrace

Oily/Resilient

Do you use any BHA (salicylic acid) at the moment?
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Bylillie

Dry/Sensitive

I used this product from CosRx daily for more than a week and everything was fine. When I stopped using it, these small pimples started to appear. Could this be because of it?
AHA/BHA Clarifying Treatment Toner

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AHA/BHA Clarifying Treatment Toner

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SashaGrace

Oily/Resilient

It's hard to say since I don't know if that was a delayed reaction because your skin is sensitive, or if that whiteheads/closed comedones appeared as purging. Purging often happens when your skin is introduced to active ingredients that cause chemical reactions and change in layers of skin, death of cells (retinoids) or sloughing off of dead skin cells (chemical exfoliation). Purging happens when gunky stuff deeper within skin gets forced to the surface faster than it normally would do to BHA and AHA, so I think to really know, I would try salisylic acid again, no more than 2 days a week and see how it goes after a 4-6 weeks. Often times skin has to go through getting used to new ingredients, then it will settle down when it gets accustomed to the product, or it will continue to flare up and be irritated if it does not like the new product. It just unfortunately can take time to see if skin can become accustomed to something new, especiallly actives, when skin is sensitive because it can react to anything and be disturbed out of its norm very easily.
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Bylillie

Dry/Sensitive

Thank you so much, that was really helpful, I will do that and I hope it helps❤️❤️
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SashaGrace

Oily/Resilient

I hope it helps too. If you find your skin does not like BHA, a lot of very sensitive skin can instead try PHA or LHA as blemish treatments.
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