Enlarged pores

The size of an enlarged pore cannot be permanently changed and no cosmetic product shrinks one, and we make no such claim. Three ingredients are the ones most often associated with enlarged pores, and they are also what this page contains: salicylic acid, or BHA; the retinoids, meaning retinol, retinal and their derivatives, and bakuchiol in our dictionary; and niacinamide. Pores go by several names, and big, enlarged and dilated pores describe one and the same observation in everyday speech; a clogged pore is a different thing, one that sebum has collected in. This page lists the products whose ingredient list contains one of the three. No format is excluded, so both rinse-off and leave-on products are here. The ingredient page shows where in each list each ingredient sits.