This Pink Acne Treatment Puts My Pimples to Bed

There are lot of bad habits I had hoped to kick by the time I was 30: not tracking my finances, never cleaning out my car, and of course popping my pimples ('sup, adult acne). While I still get the occasional mobile alert from Bank of America, and my Honda CR-V can best be described as a hoarder’s attic on wheels, I can at least say, with cautious optimism, that the zit picking is slowly coming to an end. And I owe it all to this very pink and somewhat pungent spot treatment from British favorite Kate Somerville.

Kate Somerville EradiKate Acne Treatment is a sulfur-based liquid that subdues would-be zits before they get a chance to ruin your _________ (insert special occasion you've been planning for months here). Apparently, it contains the highest level of sulfur allowed to fight blemishes (10%) -- hence the smell -- as well as AHAs to shrink your inflamed, crater-sized pores, and zinc oxide to tackle oil control.

The result is an overnight reduction in ready-to-destroy-your day blemishes. In my experience thus far (I'm on my second bottle) pimples are either smaller and flatter by morning or their ugly insides have been brought to the surface, allowing me to finish the job.

Of course there are a few caveats to Kate's sulfur-soaked spot treatment.

First, it's not the kind of acne treatment you squeeze out of tube and dab on your face. Instead, you'll need a Q-tip to dip and dab the product on your face. Which, in retrospect, is a more hygienic way of doing things anyway. 

Second, while the instructions may say to apply one to three times a day, I don't know anyone who wants to walk around looking like they drizzled Pepto-Bismol on their face. So I prefer to use this as a strictly at-night / at-home treatment.

Still, the product has reached almost Holy Grail status in my book. As someone who's tried it all in the spot treatment arena - everything from Neutrogena On-the-Spot and Persagel to toothpaste and liquid ibuprofen - this has by far been the most effective, immediate, and least irritating of them all. My skin doesn't get dried out, I don't lose my patience, and that always perfectly-timed zit never gets to see its full potential. 

Now if only Kate Somerville could clean out my dumpster of a car.