Salicylic acid has exfoliating, keratolytic, and anti-inflammatory properties. Treating your skin with salicylic acid can help:

- Reduce bumpiness
- Fade dark spots
- Reduce skin blemishes 
- Sebum balancing oily skin
- Provide skin-smoothing effects
- Get rid of warts, calluses, or corns

      Keratolytic agents like salicylic acid soften and dissolve the keratin protein holding skin flakes together. The buildup of skin flakes and oil in hair follicles can cause acne and blackheads. It also dissolves away rough or flaky skin from various skin conditions. It can soften and loosen dry, scaly, or thickened skin, allowing it to fall off or be scraped away.

    As a chemical exfoliator, salicylic acid penetrates deep into the hair follicle and oil gland to dissolve dead skin cells, oil, and other debris. This can eliminate whiteheads and blackheads that have already formed and help prevent more spots from forming. Salicylic acid can also dry out oily skin, which helps prevent new acne-causing blockages.

      When your hair follicles (pores) get plugged with dead skin cells and oil, blackheads (open plugged pores), whiteheads (closed plugged pores), or pimples (pustules) often appear.

   Salicylic acid penetrates your skin and works to dissolve the dead skin cells clogging your pores.

     As an anti-inflammatory, salicylic acid can reduce swelling and redness. It also helps reduce the redness of existing acne and slow down how fast skin cells are shed inside the follicles, preventing clogging.

Mechanism of action for Anti-inflammation

    Salicylic acid modulates COX-1 enzymatic activity to decrease the formation of pro-inflammatory prostaglandins. Salicylate may competitively inhibit prostaglandin formation. Salicylate's antirheumatic (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory) actions are a result of its analgesic and anti-inflammatory mechanisms.

    Salicylic acid, when applied to the skin surface, works by causing the cells of the epidermis to slough off more readily, preventing pores from clogging up, and allowing room for new cell growth. Salicylic acid inhibits the oxidation of uridine-5-diphosphoglucose (UDPG) competitively with NADH and noncompetitively with UDPG. It also competitively inhibits the transferring of glucuronyl group of uridine-5-phosphoglucuronic acid to the phenolic acceptor.

1. Squeeze about pea size onto palm and make foam.
2. Gently massage the foam onto a wet face.
3. Rinse thoroughly with lukewarm water.