11 Best Pimple Patches for Every Type of Breakout, Tested by Glamour Editors

^{Original photo courtesy of Glamour associate beauty editor Danielle Sinay}

“ZitSticka Killa Kit is also an excellent product which contains salicylic acid,” says Dr. Mudgil, and I couldn’t agree more.

You know those horrible, deep, and painful pimples that form beneath the skin? The kind that, no matter how much you poke, prod, or treat, just won’t budge or stop growing? Well, I get at least one of those every month just before my menstrual cycle—sometimes, a few additional ones on my jaw—and nothing, and I mean nothing, has stopped them from getting worse but ZitSticka’s Kit Self-Dissolving Microdart Acne Pimple Patches.

I know I’m not alone in that, either: I discovered these holy grail stickers whilst on a desperate Reddit query for anything that might keep hormonal breakouts at bay. One user’s post about them was so convincing I decided to give them a try—it said something like, “these are the only patches that make a difference in my cystic pimples”—and months later, I wish I saved her username so I could thank her, because SAME! I’ve ordered and re-ordered more times than I can count because they really do stop those underground breakouts in their tracks, something I never even realized was possible. Cystic acne, you’ve met our match.