Acne Gel

"What happened to your face?" — someone asked you that on the rooftop, while the last orange light of the afternoon fell straight across your cheek. You laughed it off. You have not stood in that light since.

Now when you go up before evening to bring the clothes in, you drift towards the shade of the water tank without even thinking about it. A damp orna on the railing, dust on the chilli plant in its pot, a rickshaw bell from the road below — and you, standing so the light falls on your back instead of your face. You have never said this out loud to anyone.

Whatever you cover all day with a layer of foundation comes right back at night, after you wash it off with a face wash — the sore acne on your cheek, the dark blackheads packed along both sides of your nose, the pores that keep looking bigger. The ordinary anti-acne creams dried the pimples a little, but nothing changed where the blackheads and pores were.

Acne Gel is built to take on all three at once. Its nourishing formula works on acne-causing bacteria, while salicylic acid dissolves the stubborn sebum and blackheads sitting deep inside the pores. Its active ingredients also work to shrink enlarged pores, so the surface texture of your skin turns smoother.

Press the tube and out comes a pea-sized bead of clear gel — cool on your fingertip, almost wet. Smoothed along the sides of your nose in the rooftop breeze, it disappears in two or three minutes, leaving no sticky, heavy film. The smell is faint, not medicinal. A light tightening for the first few seconds — that is how you know it has started working.

With regular use the pimples begin to dry down and settle, that gritty roughness under your finger on the nose eases off, and as the pores shrink the skin looks tighter and clearer. One day you will notice you have turned your face towards that orange rooftop light without thinking twice about it.

Stand in it without a filter this time — add Acne Gel to your routine ✨