COSRX Centella Blemish Cream is the ultimate utilizes K-Beauty’s famous centella asciatica extract to reduce acne appearance, whilst following up with zinc oxide to heal scarring and cuts on the surface. This powerful combination allows a simple, but highly effective treatment of break-outs that can be easily combined with a variety of other products to suit different skin types. In daily life, random outbreaks and spots can be a common occurrence – so its important to have a tool in your beauty regime that can quickly tackle spots as they appear. This cream works to minimize possible damage and leaves you with confidence that they will vanish as quickly as they’ve come.
The COSRX Centella Blemish Cream is a fan favourite across all regions of K-beauty for its intricate simplicity and genuinely because it works. When carefully applied in appropriate amounts to the blemish itself, if sitting overnight it will dry, soothe and moisturise the spot. Unlike other harsh treatments, this blemish cream is gentle and when used early in a break-out will ensure good healing and prevent long-lasting scars. In two steps, this blemish cream provides a soothing effect – with step 1 (centella) reducing future acne in that are and step 2 (zinc oxide) providing a medical healing effect.
Step 1: Centella asciatica extract
Now a staple of K-Beauty everywhere, centella asciatica is well-known for calming inflammation and soothing – but it is also wonderfully antibacterial. The cause of cystic acne is most commonly a build-up of annoying bacterial strains that eat into the skin’s oils, invade pores and form the dreaded pimple.
With a routine use of centella asciatica, skin inflammation is calmed (reducing oil production) and the bacterial numbers will be reduced in the area, preventing flare ups in future. The use of centella in the COSRX Blemish cream allows targeted addition of anti-bacterial product to the area, preventing bacteria from worsening break-out or prolonging attack
Step 2: Zinc Oxide
Prior to its use in face creams, zinc oxide was a common topical addition to baby products – due to its ability to reduce skin inflammation and form a protective barrier in the skin. It is crucial in wound healing, accelerating the body’s natural healing process and controlling oil production (reducing sebum). This two hit combination with centella, allows the skin to form a protective barrier and begin the healing process.
This seemingly simple combination in a spot cream allows use in a variety of skin types. They will not dry out or aggravate sensitive skin (in a gentle cream format), but they also have good use in oily, acne-prone skin to limit damage of an outbreak and provide a neat, calming solution.
How to Best Use:
- This blemish cream is best used as a back-pocket weapon for those unexpected break-outs or sensitive skin
- Ideal use is at night, to ensure proper administration that can provide relief overnight and give you a fresher face on waking up.
- Apply a small, dot of cream to the tip of your finger and gently tap over spot. Do not rub in, but gently tap to ensure good contact with spot and coverage. Resting overnight, the spot should reduce inflammation overnight and the healing process should be taking place. Can take a few days for spots to entirely disappear and is skin dependent (some people’s skin react far quicker than others).
- Can also be used for problem areas with dark spots, irritation or clusters of comedones.
This product best works as a pimple patch, but in cream form – allowing a breathable alternative for sensitive skin that works its magic over a few hours to provide relief to individual spots. If you are struggling with individual spot outbreaks, have sensitive skin or want to try a new weapon in your beauty arsenal – COSRX Blemish Cream should be your next K-Beauty purchase.
