Acne

Expert insights, targeted strategies, and guidance to help you better understand and manage breakout-prone skin.

How to Minimize the Appearance of Pores
How to Minimize the Appearance of Pores
What are pores? How do they work? Can you shrink them? Let’s clear the myths and mine the facts. Pores don’t open and close. They are not muscles. They are the tiny holes in your skin that allow sweat and...
Skin care over 40
Still Breaking Out Over 40?  
Your skin at age 40 is not your skin at age 17, but sometimes it stubbornly behaves as if it is: oiliness, clogged pores, painful breakouts, and lingering post-acne discoloration. The difference is that adult skin is also dealing with...
How To Clear and Control Body Acne
How To Clear and Control Body Acne
Body acne is a common yet often overlooked skin concern that affects areas beyond the face, including the back, chest, arms, and shoulders. Like facial breakouts, body acne develops when excess oil and dead skin cells clog follicles, leading to...
Bare Necessities: How To Clear and Control Body Acne
Bare Necessities: How To Clear and Control Body Acne

Body acne is a common concern often triggered by factors like sweating, friction, and clogged pores—here are practical tips to help you keep it under control.

Sulfur Clay mask
Our 10-Minute Tune-Up for Clearer Skin
Clear Skin.  Few things in skin care provide instant gratification like the right mask. Give your skin what it craves, a clarifying reset with our Sulfur Clay Mask. The ultimate 10-minute clear skin tune-up. Slather it on, wait about ten...
How to treat beard acne
Men’s Skincare: Beard Acne, Ingrown Hairs and Other Prickly Issues
Whether you’re new to beard protocol, or you’re a longtime bard of the beard, you are probably discovering that whiskers can come with some prickly skin problems, namely beard acne, itching, dry skin, and ingrown hairs. So what can you...
The 7 Biggest Myths About Acne
The 7 Biggest Myths About Acne
So many misconceptions about acne. So much wasted time. Here’s a quick list of the top acne myths to help you avoid the treatment detours and get onto what works. Table of contents Myth: Dirty skin and hair on the forehead...
The Best Acne Treatments for Every Acne Type
The Best Acne Treatments for Every Acne Type
Does the type of acne you experience make a difference when considering your plan of attack? If you’re using salicylic acid or benzoyl peroxide, you might think you’ve got it covered. While those are two giants among acne-fighters, there is...
What products to treat acne in my 40s
Acne at 40: Causes and Treatment for Adult Hormonal Acne
Like most people, you may have thought that when you left your teen years behind, you were also leaving acne behind. Maybe in your twenties, you were annoyed to find that wasn’t the case. Certainly, by your thirties, you’d be...
“Finally, something that works!”
“Finally, something that works!”
Jacqueline S. email marketing manager, hot yoga teacher, violin player.   Before finding the Vivant Skin Care line, I considered myself a skincare junkie, but am realizing that I was this way because I was constantly looking for a product that...
Spot On: Skin Positivity Meets Solution Positivity
Spot On: Skin Positivity Meets Solution Positivity
  We’ve seen a lot of people speaking up about skin positivity on social media, posting makeup-free, unfiltered selfies along with encouraging words of acceptance for themselves and others.   From Instagram users to celebrities to Teen Vogue’s Acne Awards...
The One-Inch Rule: Your Secret Weapon Against Acne Migration
The One-Inch Rule: Your Secret Weapon Against Acne Migration
If you have acne-prone skin, you know that staying ahead of the breakout cycle can be a frustrating and challenging experience, especially when flare-ups seem to pop up out of nowhere. Despite the seemingly random nature of breakouts, there’s a...
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