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Sofie Pavitt

Sofie Pavitt

NYC-based licensed esthetician known as "the Acne Whisperer"; founder of Sofie Pavitt Studio and the skincare brand Sofie Pavitt Face (2023), sold at Sephora.

Sep 21, 2026

19:52
Like, where did the biggest insights come from? Quite the opposite.
19:57
Everything came from the studio.
20:00
Okay.
20:00
So this one ingredient that I talk about all the time is mandelic acid.
20:05
Mandelic acid has always been an acid I loved to use in practice.
20:09
And the reason why is that it works really really efficaciously at clearing acne and it calms skin down but it what what people don't realize is a lot of the time if you have this really inflamed painful acne condition your skin is highly irritated and what was happening was if you go to the derm or you go and buy drugstore acne products a lot of them are really harsh and really intense.
20:34
And so you add these intense ingredients onto an already compromised skin and it's like throwing gas on a barbecue.

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