Mario Badescu’s iconic Drying Cream is truly a mainstay when it comes to fighting acne, thanks to the formula’s combo of clarifying sulfur and oil-absorbing zinc. Dab a little bit of lightweight cream on your whiteheads, blackheads, papules, and cysts as a spot treatment and watch as they shrink in size.
Key ingredients: Sulfur, zinc oxide
THE REVIEWS: “The first time I used it, I was stunned to see that Mario Badescu’s Drying Cream had shrunk a disgusting, red and painful cystic “boulder” on my cheek by more than HALF overnight,” writes one tester. “The next night, I slathered the “boulder” again and was amazed by morning. What had begun as another week-long (or longer) deep, painful, disfiguring giant red “zit,” was little more than a minuscule “nothing,”- an invisible, internally dried, itty-bitty “bump,” invisible-painless-gone!”