15 Best Pore Minimizers for Your Smoothest Skin Ever
These primers and serums help to blur and smooth the look of pores instantly.
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While it's not possible to actually minimize your pores, there are plenty of great products on the market that can help minimize their appearance. "A pore minimizer is a product or procedure that helps the pores appear smaller," says Nazanin Saedi, M.D., a board-certified cosmetic dermatologist and department co-chair of the Laser and Aesthetics Surgery Center at Dermatology Associates of Plymouth Meeting in Pennsylvania. Pore minimizers "remove the dead skin cells and also unclog the pores which make them appear smaller."
The Good Housekeeping Institute Beauty Lab conducts thousands of in-Lab and consumer tests on skincare products, including facial peels, scrubs masks, toners, serums and primers that can minimize the appearance of pores. In the Lab's most recent facial peel and face scrub tests, scientists analyzed changes in consumers' skin, including measuring pore size, parsing through nearly 3,000 data points to find the products that actually minimize the appearance of pores. Ahead, we've rounded up the best pore minimizers to get the smoothest skin possible as recommended by Beauty Lab pros, GH editors, Dr. Saedi and Roberta Del Campo, M.D., medical advisor for Babor and the founder of Del Campo Dermatology in Miami.
Our top picks:
You can read more about how we evaluate pore minimizers in our Lab and consumer tests — plus everything you need to know to shop for your perfect pore minimizer — at the end of this guide. "Two factors that contribute to the enlarged appearance of pores are high sebum production and skin laxity due to aging," says GH Beauty and Health Reviews Analyst Chiara Butler, so you'll need to know which ingredients to prioritize when shopping, depending on your skin type and goals. And if you're looking for more ways to achieve bright, smooth skin, check out our guides on how to get the smoothest skin ever and how to get glowing skin.
Catharine (she/her) is the beauty assistant at Good Housekeeping, Woman’s Day and Prevention, working closely with the Good Housekeeping Institute Beauty Lab to write science-backed beauty content. She was previously an assistant beauty editor at Group Nine Media and returned to Hearst in 2022 after having held editorial internships at Harper’s Bazaar and CR Fashion Book. Catharine received a B.A. in journalism from the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
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