Blemish Regimen

Once or twice a week. Polish MD lifts dead cells with cranberry enzymes rather than grit, which suits congested skin, but more than twice a week tips over into irritation. Fifteen minutes per session is long enough to get the benefit.

Catalyst works on the tone and texture left behind after breakouts, which is what most people are actually unhappy about once the spots themselves have gone. It does not clear congestion, so it belongs alongside a barrier serum rather than instead of one.

Topicals alone carry a lot of people a long way, but skin that keeps congesting despite a solid routine is usually being fed from elsewhere. Environmental Detox works on the load the body is processing. Give topicals eight weeks first, then add the internal side if breakouts persist.

Around them rather than across them. An enzyme mask can go over the whole face while nothing is broken, but working over a spot that has opened slows the whole thing down. Leave those areas out for a week and they catch up with the rest.

Because oil production and the products on your shelf move at different speeds. A rich winter cream on skin making more oil in spring congests within a fortnight. Lighten the moisturizer before the weather turns rather than after the breakouts start.