Large Pores

Vivant Mandelic Acid 3-in-1 Toner helps clear away dirt, excess oil, and dead cell buildup while remaining comfortable for skin that is easily reactive. It’s a perfect option for those who cannot tolerate benzoyl peroxide, glycolic acid, or other active serums and creams. It offers acne-clearing and tone-refining benefits without the dryness or irritation that often comes with more aggressive products.

Mandelic toner is especially well-suited for skin that is new to advanced skincare or transitioning into more corrective routines. It gently introduces exfoliation, supports tolerance-building, and improves overall skin readiness. With consistent use, it helps strengthen the foundation of the routine so the skin can better handle other stronger actives over time.

Vivant Mandelic Acid 3-in-1 Toner is formulated to support both inflamed and non-inflamed acne, while also helping lighten post-acne marks and early sun damage. By promoting gentle, consistent exfoliation, it helps smooth texture, fade discoloration, and encourage a more even-looking complexion over time. Niacinamide in the formula supports barrier health, calms redness, and helps regulate oil.

This toner is designed to do more than simply refresh the skin after cleansing. It helps remove residual buildup, oil, and debris that can interfere with product absorption. By improving how the skin is prepped, it allows corrective serums and treatments applied afterward to work more efficiently and deliver better overall results.

Marini ResurFace Peel Pads are pre-soaked pads formulated with four acids and soothing botanical extracts to resurface skin, refine texture, and restore brightness in one weekly step. They deliver concentrated exfoliation that creates visible results while building cumulative improvements over time. Use one pad once or twice a week on clean, dry skin.

Rough texture and enlarged-looking pores often share one cause, a buildup of dead skin cells. ResurFace Pads dissolve that buildup with four acids that work at different depths, clearing the surface and the pore lining at once. After a single use, skin feels smoother, and with weekly use, texture refines and pores appear smaller.

Fine lines are more visible when the skin's surface is uneven or when the skin has lost density and hydration just beneath the surface. ResurFace Pads address the surface element through exfoliation, helping lines appear softer and skin appear smoother immediately after use. With regular weekly use, the cumulative effect of accelerated cell turnover helps the skin maintain a more youthful surface texture over time.

Dullness often develops when dead cells accumulate on the surface and light no longer reflects evenly off the skin. It is also one of the concerns that responds best to regular exfoliation. ResurFace Pads remove that layer efficiently, revealing the more luminous skin beneath. Skin often looks brighter after the first use, with tone becoming more even over time.

This lightweight soufflé cream delivers oxygen to the skin’s surface to support detox and promote healthy-looking cells. The result is a smoother, more luminous complexion with improved tone and texture. It is a great daily moisturizer for anyone looking to refresh dull, fatigued skin. Massage a small amount over the face, neck, and décolleté after your serums, morning and night.

Oxygen Cream uses oxygen-boosting botanicals like wasabi ferment and sake extract to help energize the skin while promoting renewal. Vitamin C and E deliver antioxidant defense and encourage collagen production to help maintain firmness and clarity over time. Tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate, a stable form of vitamin C, also helps brighten skin tone and support a healthy glow.

Despite its rich-sounding name, this formula feels light and breathable on the skin. Hydrating ingredients like glycerin and sorbitol plump the skin without clogging pores, while grapefruit peel oil helps brighten and energize the complexion naturally. It also helps control oil and minimize the look of pores, which makes it a good fit for oily and combination skin.

This formula supports your skin’s own repair processes by protecting DNA, increasing collagen synthesis, and helping cells work more efficiently. With continued use, skin looks healthier, feels stronger, and responds better to the rest of your routine. Tropaeolum majus extract, known as an oxygenating active, supports cellular respiration and adds radiance and vitality.

Environ Dual Action Pre-Cleansing Oil is a lightweight cleansing oil that dissolves makeup, sunscreen, excess oil, and environmental impurities without stripping the skin. It softens texture, helps decongest pores, and prepares the skin for a second cleanser and the rest of the routine. Contains fragrance. Use within 10 to 12 weeks of opening. Suitable for normal, dry, sensitive, and combination skin types.

Oil cleansing works on the principle that like dissolves like. The lightweight oils in this formula bind to makeup, sunscreen, sebum, and environmental pollutants on the skin's surface and lift them away without stripping moisture or disrupting the skin's natural barrier. Skin feels clean and hydrated after rinsing, making it suitable for normal, dry, sensitive, and even combination skin types.

Beyond makeup removal, this pre-cleansing oil helps dissolve the buildup of sebum and debris inside pores that contributes to blackheads, whiteheads, and congestion over time. The BHA component in the formula supports this pore-clearing action, helping skin feel visibly smoother and less congested with consistent use. Unlike harsh cleansers that strip the skin to achieve this, it decongests without disrupting the barrier or causing dryness.

Oily and combination skin types sometimes avoid oil cleansers over concerns about congestion. This formula emulsifies completely with water and rinses clean, leaving no oily residue on the skin. Its BHA content supports pore clarity, making it appropriate even for skin that is prone to congestion. For sensitive skin, it offers a thorough cleanse with a gentle feel.

Hale and Hush Rare Mandelic Serum is an exfoliating corrective serum for texture, tone, and breakouts, formulated for daily use on sensitive and reactive skin. It combines 8% mandelic acid with stable vitamin C, a polyhydroxy acid, Swiss Stone Pine extract, and a fruit enzyme complex to resurface, brighten, and calm skin at the same time.

Not all alpha hydroxy acids behave the same way. Glycolic acid has the smallest molecule of any AHA, which lets it travel quickly and deeply, and some people with reactive skin find that causes stinging. Mandelic acid has a larger molecule that penetrates more slowly and evenly, which makes it gentler than glycolic acid. It suits sensitive skin, all skin tones, and acid beginners.

Dead skin cells accumulate on the surface over time, creating rough texture, dullness, and congestion. Mandelic acid dissolves the bonds that hold these cells in place, clearing the surface and the pore lining at the same time. With consistent use, skin becomes progressively smoother, pores look clearer and more refined, and dullness fades over the first few weeks.

Post-acne marks and uneven tone can linger well after a breakout has healed. Rare Mandelic Serum addresses discoloration from two directions. Mandelic acid speeds up cell turnover, bringing more evenly pigmented skin to the surface, while a stable form of vitamin C inhibits the excess melanin production behind dark spots. Together they help fade existing marks over several weeks.

Vivant Redness and Texture Duo pairs True Tone 2.0 and Rejuv Rx in a dermatologist-developed protocol specifically designed for post-inflammatory erythema. Where most brightening serums address brown pigmentation, this duo targets the red, pink, and vascular discoloration that lingers after breakouts clear. True Tone 2.0 delivers hydroquinone-free brightening through a multi-acid and peptide system, while Rejuv Rx calms visible redness, supports collagen production, and improves skin resilience. Results for PIE visible in as little as 14 days.

True Tone 2.0 was developed as the daily alternative for patients cycling off hydroquinone, or for anyone who needs continuous year-round brightening without the risk of rebound discoloration that hydroquinone can cause with prolonged use. Powered by Dr. James E. Fulton's patented REt (RP) Retinyl Propionate, which delivers visible results three times faster than traditional retinol, it also contains kojic acid, clinical mandelic acid, lactic acid, and Oligopeptide-68 to address uneven tone, discoloration, and texture simultaneously. Safe for continuous daily use and appropriate for melanin-rich skin.

The Redness and Texture Duo is built around Vivant's Post-Inflammatory Erythema Protocol, a morning and evening regimen that uses True Tone 2.0 in the evening and Rejuv Rx in the morning to address PIE from two different angles simultaneously. Clinical before and after results from Vivant show visible reduction in PIE redness after 14 days of consistent use, making this one of the more targeted and effective topical options available for this specific and often stubborn concern.

Rejuv Rx brings the anti-inflammatory and barrier-strengthening components the True Tone 2.0 brightening system needs to work on PIE rather than only on brown pigment. Peptides calm irritation and reduce the appearance of visible redness at the source while supporting collagen production for firmer, more resilient skin over time. Niacinamide strengthens the barrier, reduces the look of pores, and contributes additional redness-calming benefits that complement the brightening action of True Tone 2.0 in the evening step.

Hydrinity RetaXome Retinal Boost Treatment Pads are a next-generation at-home peel treatment combining a 5-acid exfoliation system with encapsulated biomimetic exosome-retinal technology. They resurface, renew, brighten, and support healthier-looking skin while targeting texture, fine lines, congestion, and uneven tone in a single leave-on treatment used every three days. No rinsing required.

Retinal is one step closer to retinoic acid than retinol, which means it can work at a lower concentration, and some people find it gentler on their skin. RetaXome Technology encapsulates the retinal inside a biomimetic exosome system that enhances its delivery and stability. Rather than relying on passive absorption, this technology actively supports penetration for more consistent renewal with every application.

RetaXome Pads combine five acids in one step. Glycolic, lactic, mandelic, salicylic, and gluconolactone each address a different aspect of skin renewal, from surface brightness and texture to pore clearing and barrier support. Used together every three days, they deliver progressive improvement across multiple concerns without needing a separate exfoliant for each.

Acne-prone skin benefits from exfoliation that works both at the surface and inside the pore lining. The salicylic acid in the 5-acid blend penetrates oil-filled pores to dissolve the congestion behind blackheads and breakouts, while Oligopeptide-10, a targeted antimicrobial peptide, addresses the bacteria associated with inflammatory acne. Together they suit skin managing both active congestion and aging concerns.

Face Reality Sal-C Toner is a clarifying, exfoliating toner designed to target blackheads, congestion, and dull skin tone. It helps loosen dead skin cells, refine pores, and smooth texture while prepping skin for the next step in your skincare routine. Sweep it over skin with a cotton pad or clean fingertips after cleansing and before serums.

This toner is especially beneficial for skin prone to blackheads and non-inflamed acne. It contains both salicylic acid and vitamin C to help clear pore buildup, brighten dull areas, and visibly reduce the appearance of uneven pigmentation over time. It also helps keep oil under control, leaving skin smoother and brighter.

By removing excess oil and dead skin buildup, Sal-C Toner helps your active serums and moisturizers absorb more effectively. It balances the skin's surface and serves as a smart prep step before applying benzoyl peroxide or mandelic serum. Because it clears away dead skin cells before they can clog pores, the serums that follow can reach the skin more evenly.

Despite its exfoliating power, this toner remains alcohol-free and includes hydrating ingredients to avoid overdrying. It can be used once or twice daily depending on your skin's oiliness, sensitivity, tolerance, and personalized skincare plan. It is also fragrance-free, non-comedogenic, and vegan, with niacinamide to support skin tone, texture, and barrier function.

Solo Hydrating Defense MEN is designed specifically for the unique needs of male skin, delivering a powerful blend of antioxidants, hydrators, and skin-supporting ingredients. This once-daily formula helps protect against environmental stressors like sun, pollution, and blue light while supporting a healthier, more resilient complexion.

With consistent use, this lightweight, fast-absorbing formula helps refine skin texture, minimize visible pores, and improve skin tone. It also reduces surface oiliness for a fresher, more balanced look, ideal for men who want a polished appearance without unwanted shine. Licorice root adds brightening and soothing benefits to the mix.

Formulated to keep skin hydrated and calm, even post-shave, this cream absorbs quickly without leaving a greasy residue. Soothing plant extracts help maintain comfort, while water-binding ingredients provide lasting moisture throughout the day. Ceramides help retain moisture and strengthen the skin barrier, and grape seed extract helps soothe inflammation.

Solo Hydrating Defense MEN has been clinically tested across diverse skin types and tones, proving effective at reducing redness, balancing oil production, and improving the appearance of stressed, fatigued skin. It is an ideal one-step solution for men seeking visible results with minimal effort. Apply it in the morning after cleansing, or twice a day if you prefer.

Environ Tri Bio-Botanical Revival Masque is an advanced at-home peel that combines three plant-derived acids, lactic, mandelic, and asiatic, to refine texture, fade pigmentation, and support skin resilience. Often referred to as a facelift in a jar, it can be used as a 10 to 20 minute mask or applied overnight for a more intensive effect. Best used in conjunction with Environ vitamin A moisturizers.

Most acid treatments rely on a single ingredient to do all the work. This masque combines three distinct acids that each address a different concern simultaneously, hydration, pigmentation, and regeneration, rather than relying on one mechanism alone. This layered approach is part of what gives the formula its reputation as a comprehensive at-home peel rather than a single-purpose exfoliant.

Lactic acid is a gentle alpha hydroxy acid known for increasing the look of hydration in the skin while it exfoliates, which is unusual for an acid this effective. It also helps lighten the appearance of pigmented marks over time, addressing two common concerns, dehydration and discoloration, in a single ingredient. This is part of why the masque feels less harsh than many acid treatments.

Mandelic acid is included specifically for its ability to rejuvenate the appearance of pigmented areas, along with a gentle antibacterial benefit that makes it useful for breakout-prone skin as well. Combined with the other two acids in the formula, it contributes to smoother, more even-looking texture and a visibly brighter complexion with consistent use over several weeks.