Salicylic acid is a white powder, which exists in the natural willow bark, aspen leaves and sweet birch trees. It is a very old skin medicine.But it has nothing to do with cosmetics or beauty.Salicylic acid didn’t gain some traction until 1997, when Dr. Kligman published a paper in the American journal of dermatology on its skin-care benefits.It is also increasingly used in the cosmetics industry.Like AHA, salicylic Acid is called BHA, short for Beta Hydroxy Acid.So let’s talk about what salicylic acid does.

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It and BHA have fat-soluble properties, and their molecular weight is larger than that of fruit acid. They can lock the action into the shallow keratin and have the effect of removing keratin.This is one of the most important functions of it.

The lipid solubility of it can penetrate into the stratum corneum and the depth of pores through the way of blending with oil and dredge the pores.Do you have a bit of an oil-soluble feeling?When you clean out the clogged pores, remove the blackheads and the pores will naturally appear smaller.By using it, we can find that there are a lot of black head effluent, which is salicylic acid.

Another important place of the effects of it, it can follow the secretion of oils and fats of sebaceous glands into the pores of the deep, is advantageous to the dissolved pores within the old accumulation of cuticle, improve hair also blocking situation, thus blocking the formation of acne and narrow was enlarged pores, but in terms of reducing sebum secretion and eliminate acne bacillus.Therefore, if you suddenly have several acne after using a certain greasy skin care product, you can consider using the acne products containing it for emergency treatment.

One study showed that salicylic acid with a mass concentration of 1% inhibited tyrosinase at a rate of 99.2%.At the same time, it has the ability to exfoliate as described above.It can also be added to whitening products.However, the whitening ability of it cannot be compared with other professional whitening ingredients, so do not think to see the ingredients on the list of it, the product has the whitening ability.

Salicylic acid at concentrations of 3 to 6 percent can be used to exfoliate, and dandruff is essentially a massive stratum corneum cell.So it is also used in anti-dandruff products.However, the concentration of more than 2% is beyond the scope of domestic cosmetics use, it may be found in the skin department of this high concentration of anti-dandruff products.This is the role of it cannot be ignored.

 

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