AviClear® for hormonal acne.
If your breakouts cluster along your chin and jawline, flare with your cycle, and shrug off the products that worked in your twenties — that pattern points to hormonal acne. It behaves differently, and it asks for a different approach.
Why hormonal acne is different.
Hormonal acne tends to show up lower on the face — chin, jawline, sometimes the neck — as deeper, tender breakouts that track with hormonal shifts across your cycle. The driver isn’t dirt or your cleanser; it’s hormones prompting your oil glands to overproduce.
Why topicals often don't move the needle.
Surface products work at the surface. Hormonal acne originates deeper, at the gland, which is why so many people cycle through washes and serums without lasting change.
How AviClear® fits.
Here’s the part worth being precise about: AviClear® doesn’t touch your hormones. It acts on the oil gland — the place where the hormonal signal turns into excess oil and breakouts. Hormones drive the gland; AviClear® acts on the gland. So it offers a drug-free, non-hormonal way to address the downstream result, without altering your hormones the way some medications do.
That makes it a different kind of option from hormonal therapies (like spironolactone or hormonal birth control), which work by changing hormonal signaling. It isn’t "better" than those — it’s a different route, and the right choice depends on you. Your consultation is where you and your provider weigh them.
A realistic timeline.
Hormonal cases can respond a little more slowly than purely inflammatory acne, since the hormonal driver is ongoing. Your provider will set expectations and may discuss maintenance.
Think your acne is hormonal?
Start with a visit. We'll look at your pattern and history and tell you whether AviClear® — or another route — fits your skin.