Hypochlorous Acid Is Skincare’s Rising Star, but Is it Safe to Use at Home?
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If your TikTok algorithm has picked up your compulsive skincare content consumption like mine has, chances are you’ve encountered posts about beauty’s newest ‘unsexy’ complexion obsession: hypochlorous acid spray for skin. Hypochlorous Acid (HOCI) got on my radar a few weeks ago when an aesthetician I follow on the app (who is approaching 40 but has the skin of a 22-year-old) waxed poetic about its laundry list of skin benefits and very few side effects—apparently, even for those of us with sensitive and/or wrinkle-prone skin. The following week, I decided to catch up on some recent episodes of my favorite beauty podcast, Fat Mascara, and the hosts, two veteran beauty editors, were also singing praises about the multipurpose spray.
Some of the purported benefits of using hypochlorous acid spray on the face include instantly reducing redness, killing pore-clogging and acne-causing bacteria without overdrying, refining pores, quelling inflammation, and expediting wound healing. Naturally, it wasn’t long before I opened my Amazon app and bought a bottle for myself.