Enhancing Your BHA Toner and Cleanser Recommendations

Welcome! It's great you're looking to customize your skincare routine to address your specific concerns with oily skin, acne, and post-acne marks.

Customizing Your BHA Toner

You're on the right track with the ingredients you've chosen to enhance your BHA Toner for a thicker texture and added benefits. Here's a look at how the ingredients you mentioned can help:

• Xanthan Gum: This is an excellent choice for increasing the viscosity of your toner to create an essence or gel-like texture, making it easier and more pleasant to apply as a single step. Using it at 2% as you suggested is within the typical usage range, though 1% is often recommended and may be sufficient depending on your desired thickness. You can adjust the percentage within the recommended range to achieve your preferred texture.

• GlucoBright™ (Acetyl Glucosamine): Adding this ingredient at 4% is within the recommended usage rate. GlucoBright™ works well with Vitamin B3 (Niacinamide) to help reduce dark spots and improve skin tone. It also helps the skin produce Hyaluronic Acid naturally, contributing to hydration and potentially reducing the appearance of fine lines. Additionally, it offers gentle exfoliation benefits and can help reduce acne breakouts.

• Safe-B3™ (Vitamin B3, Niacinamide): Your proposed 5% concentration of Safe-B3™ is the recommended usage rate and is known to be effective. Vitamin B3 is a powerhouse ingredient for oily and acne-prone skin. It helps reduce redness and dark spots, strengthens the skin barrier, reduces oiliness (sebum excretion), and is beneficial for acne-prone skin. It also has anti-inflammatory and anti-aging properties.

Combining these ingredients can indeed help create a multi-functional product targeting acne, post-acne marks, hydration, and overall skin clarity with a more desirable texture.

Regarding adding these to a tester product and having the lab mix them, as the staff mentioned, the lab typically cannot customize standard tester formulations. To create this enhanced product, you would need to purchase the individual ingredients (Timed-Released BHA Toner base, Xanthan Gum, GlucoBright™, Safe-B3™) and mix them yourself according to a suitable formula, or explore options for custom formulation if available.

Facial Cleanser Recommendation

Yes, there are facial cleanser formulas available on the website. You can find various formulations in the formula section that would be suitable for use before your BHA Toner. Look for cleansers designed for oily or acne-prone skin to complement your routine.

By combining a suitable cleanser with your customized BHA treatment, you can create a comprehensive routine to manage your skin concerns.