Two products with the same acid percentage can differ in real strength by more than double. Compare glycolic, lactic, mandelic and salicylic acid by pH and molecule count, see how popular body lotions stack up, and try the free calculator.
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The right body lotion is rarely the one with the loudest claim, or the highest number. It is the one that meets the six measurable markers that decide whether an acid actually changes body skin.
Body skin is not a bigger face. The complete reference on what glycolic acid does below the neck, how to judge a formula, and where the evidence is firm and where it is inference.
The complete body-skin guide to the little rough bumps that resist moisturiser and refuse to scrub away. What is really going on in the follicle, why most advice fails, and the evidence for what changes it.
Six body-skin concerns, read the way a formulator reads them: the mechanism underneath, the markers that decide whether a lotion works, an honest timeline, and the point where the answer is not an acid at all.
Search for a glycolic acid body lotion for KP and you will find lists full of products that use lactic or salicylic acid instead. Here is which popular lotions actually contain glycolic acid, at what strength, and the criteria to judge them by.