The Acne Buster™ Drying Lotion Plus. Four actives, one dot, eight hours. No picking required.
1.8% Encapsulated Salicylic · 10% Sulfur · 15% Zinc · 4% Niacinamide
That white cake at the bottom isn't settling. It's the formula. The actives sit undissolved so they land on the lesion at full strength instead of diluted through a bottle of liquid. Shake it and you spend the dose on nothing.
Most spot treatments run one active and a marketing budget. This runs four, and prints the numbers on the bottle.
Encapsulated, so it releases slowly and travels deeper into the pore. Lower number, longer reach, far less flaking.
The reason a whitehead is flat by morning. Pulls oil and softens the plug overnight. It's the workhorse — and yes, you'll smell it.
Seals the spot under an opaque dome. Calms the heat and physically blocks your fingers from getting to it at 1am.
The cleanup crew. Works on the red mark left behind — the part most treatments ignore entirely.
Fragrance-free · Alcohol-free · Non-comedogenic
Sulfur and zinc work while you're horizontal. Most users see a raised whitehead sit down inside one sleep cycle.
The unshaken suspension means what lands on the spot is concentrated paste — not a splash of mostly-water serum.
4% niacinamide keeps working on the red shadow after the bump is gone — the mark that outlives the pimple by weeks.
The opaque dome is deliberate. You feel it there, so you leave it alone — and picking is what turns a spot into a scar.
Stand the bottle upright and leave it. Cleanse and hydrate while the line forms. Skin must be fully dry.
Push a dry cotton swab through the clear layer to the bottom. Collect the thick white paste. Don't stir on the way out.
Press one opaque dome onto each spot. Don't rub it in. Sleep on it, rinse it off in the morning.
Shaking suspends the actives into the carrier and the dose disperses. If you've already shaken it, stand it upright for a few hours and the layers re-form. Nothing is ruined.
Individual results vary with skin type and lesion depth.
No — it arrived correct. The white layer at the bottom is the active dose and it's supposed to sit there. A bottle that looks uniformly blended has been shaken. Stand it upright for a few hours and the line comes back.
Faintly, yes. 10% colloidal sulfur has a mineral edge and we don't mask it with fragrance, because fragrance is a common irritant on inflamed skin. It's a PM product, rinsed off in the morning, and it doesn't transfer to your pillow.
The 15% zinc dome is opaque on every skin tone — that's the mechanism, not a defect. It's designed for overnight wear and rinses clean in the morning with no residue or tint. Don't wear it under makeup.
It's supramolecular — encapsulated so it releases gradually and penetrates deeper than a free acid at the same percentage, with far less peeling. And it isn't working alone: sulfur and zinc carry the overnight load.
Being honest: no. Nothing topical flattens a deep cyst in one night. Where this excels is surface lesions — whiteheads, papules, angry raised bumps. On those, one night is usually visible. On deeper ones, expect it to take the heat and redness down.
Don't stack them on the same spot on the same night. Alternate evenings. If you're on prescription topicals, run it past your dermatologist first. Never apply over broken skin.
You're dosing in swab-tips, not pumps. A typical user treating two to four spots a night runs six to ten weeks per bottle. If you're through it in two weeks, you're applying far more than the protocol calls for.
Dispatched within one business day with tracking emailed the moment the label prints. Glass is double-boxed with a foam collar — if it arrives damaged, send one photo and a replacement goes out same day, no return required.
Dispatched within 1 business day · Tracked
96% would buy again
Had a wedding. Had a mountain on my chin.
Put a thick dot on before bed fully expecting nothing. Woke up and it was flat. Not gone — flat, and I could actually cover it. That's all I needed it to do.
Combination · Hormonal breakouts
Almost sent it back on day one
It showed up looking separated and I assumed it was old stock. Read the card, left it alone, dipped the swab to the bottom like it says. Completely different product when you use it right.
Oily · Jawline acne
The white dome stops me touching my face
This is the actual benefit nobody mentions. I'm a chronic picker. I can feel it sitting there so I leave it alone, and my marks are fading because of that alone. Deep tone here — rinses off totally clean.
Normal · Post-inflammatory marks
Works. Does smell a bit.
Faint eggy note when you first dot it on, gone within a minute. Honestly fine given what it does overnight. Docking one star for the smell and nothing else.
Sensitive · Occasional breakouts
Seven nights on the cluster on my cheek
Five spots grouped together that had been there a month. Dotted every one nightly. By night seven three were gone and the other two were flat pink marks. The niacinamide is doing something on the marks too.
Combination · Cheek cluster
Bottle is small, lasts forever
Was sceptical about the size. Two months in and I've barely made a dent in the sediment layer. You're using a swab tip, not slathering it on. Makes sense now.
Oily · Forehead and nose
Sensitive skin, no stinging at all
Straight salicylic normally leaves me red and peeling. This one doesn't sting going on and I've had zero flaking around the spots. Whatever the encapsulation is doing, it's working.
Sensitive · Reactive
Great on surface spots, less on deep ones
Exactly what the page says, which I appreciate. Whiteheads flatten overnight, reliably. The deep painful ones take longer but it definitely takes the redness and soreness down. Honest product.
Combination · Hormonal cysts
Arrived double-boxed, no damage
Glass bottle so I was worried. Came in a foam collar inside a second box, shipped next day with tracking. Zero drama. Product does what it says on top of that.
Oily · Back and face
Replaced three products in my routine
I was layering a sulfur mask, a salicylic serum and patches. This does all of it in one dot. My nightstand is significantly less embarrassing now.
Combination · Chin and jaw
Second bottle
Bought one to test, bought the second the week it started running low. Do not shake it — I made that mistake once and wasted a week wondering why it stopped working.
Oily · Persistent breakouts
Marks fading faster than the spots did
The bumps going down overnight is great but what I didn't expect was the old red marks lightening. Six weeks in and my cheeks are noticeably more even. Keeping this permanently.
Normal · Post-acne pigmentation
One swab tip. Eight hours. The Acne Buster™ Drying Lotion Plus does the rest while you're asleep.
Do not shake · PM only · Rinse in the morning
Cosmetic product. Not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
Patch test before first use. For external use only. Avoid contact with eyes.
Discontinue if irritation occurs and consult a dermatologist.
