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Summary
Highlights
Clinique Acne Solutions Clinical Advanced Clearing Gel is a powerful topical treatment with 2% salicylic acid. Helps clear breakouts + prevent new ones.
Benefits
- Skin Types: Dry Combination to Oily.
- Building on 35 years of Clinique's acne expertise, this innovative fast-acting hydro-gel starts to work with just one application.
- Powerful topical acne treatment with 2% salicylic acid helps clear breakouts and prevent new ones by targeting pore-clogging oil and dead skin cells.
- Helps visibly reduce redness caused by irritation.
- Two ways to use it: Use this lightweight gel all over your face to help prevent new blemishes from forming or as a spot treatment to quickly treat existing or emerging acne.
- Invisible finish: Dries quickly. Layers well with the rest of your skincare and makeup.
- Non-acnegenic.
- Dermatologist developed. Allergy tested. 100% fragrance free.
- Free of: fragrance, parabens, phthalates, oil, gluten, sodium lauryl sulfate, sodium laureth sulfate, synthetic colors.
Research Results
- Starts to reduce the size of acne in just 1 hour.*
- Reduces redness from irritation in just 2.5 hours.**
- Gets results as good as a topical acne prescription for clearing acne.***
- *Clinical testing on 31 women after using product once.
- **After pre-treatment period; clinical testing on 25 women measured for 150 minutes, versus untreated control.
- ***In a 12-week clinical study.
Key Ingredients
- 2% salicylic acid: Trusted acne-fighting ingredient helps clear dead skin cells, oil, and other impurities that can contribute to clogged pores.
- Witch hazel: Helps refine skin.
- Laminaria saccharina: Helps break down oil that can clog pores and lead to breakouts.
- Lactobacillus ferment: Helps visibly calm redness from irritation.
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Apply a thin layer to entire face twice a day after cleansing or apply as a spot treatment. Avoid eye area.
Using other topical acne drugs at the same time or right after use of this product may increase dryness or irritation of skin. If this occurs, only one medication should be used unless directed by a doctor.
Follow with a lightweight, oil-free moisturizer.
If bothersome dryness or peeling occurs, reduce usage to every other day.
Salicylic Acid 2%Ingredients: Alcohol Denat., Hamamelis Virginiana (Witch Hazel) Water, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Sucrose, Yeast Extract\Faex\Extrait De Levure, Laminaria Saccharina Extract, Lactobacillus Ferment, Butylene Glycol, Water\Aqua\Eau, Benzoic Acid, Phenoxyethanol, Potassium Sorbate.
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Most Helpful Positive Review
It just works
[I received this product in exchange for my honest review] Clinique Acne Solutions Cleansing Gel – ★★★★☆ (4/5 Stars) Gentle, effective, and dependable—with just a couple small downsides I've been using this cleansing gel for a few months now as part of my morning and night skincare routine, and ove...
Most Helpful Critical Review
Decent
Clinique Acne Solutions Clinical™ Advanced Clearing Gel is a solid spot treatment that delivers on its promise to reduce breakouts quickly. I found it particularly effective on small, surface-level pimples—those annoying whiteheads or red spots that pop up overnight. After applying a thin layer, mos...
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Spot treatment
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[I received this product in exchange for my honest review] The texture is a thin, lightweight gel. The product comes out of the tube quickly because it is on the runny side. I like that it dries down very quickly! I apply this as a spot treatment before the rest of my skincare.
Small bottle Big results
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[I received this product in exchange for my honest review] Perfect to use, easy thin texture with very light scent, has worked with a small pimple on chin so I would say works great after 3 days. Packing is great for a small size and ingredients are excellent.
great spot treatment!
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[I received this product in exchange for my honest review] the Clinique Acne Solutions Clinical Advanced Clearing Gel is a gentle but effective spot treatment. if you're familiar with Clinique skin types, this is good for types 2, 3, and 4. i hover between a 2 and a 3 depending on the season. the spot plagueing my chin yesterday was gone this morning. i love that it's fragrance free and doesn't dry out the skin around the spot you want to treat.
Works wonders on break outs!!!
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[I received this product in exchange for my honest review] I've tried countless acne treatments over the years, but Clinique's Acne Solutions Clinical Advanced Clearing Gel is the one I keep coming back to. It works FAST—like overnight fast—on stubborn spots and even those painful under-the-skin breakouts. I love that it doesn't irritate or dry out my skin like other treatments do. It's lightweight, clear, and layers easily under makeup or moisturizer. Within a few days, my skin looks noticeably calmer and clearer. A little goes a long way, so one bottle lasts forever. Definitely a skincare staple in my routine. Highly recommend for anyone dealing with acne!
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[I received this product in exchange for my honest review] This product is great! I have sensitive and acne prone skin and this does a great job at shrinking and reducing the size of my pimples. I have also struggled with normal acne and this works well for cysts!