About r/Skincare_Addiction
In its own words:
This sub is a relaxed community to discuss skincare products and routines. Do NOT ask us to diagnose your acne/skin condition or advise on how to treat it. This is not a dermatology clinic!
Community guide
r/Skincare_Addiction (#545, about 2.0 million) — This sub is a relaxed community to discuss skincare products and routines. Do NOT ask us to diagnose your acne/skin condition or advise on how to treat it. This is not a dermatology clinic! Collected rules highlight Please stay on topic!; Be kind to others, and to yourself.; No spam, self-promotion or referral codes., among 7 listed. Activity mix in sample: text:66, image:33, gallery:24, link:1. Mo.
What belongs here
This room is built for questions and answers, aligned with: This sub is a relaxed community to discuss skincare products and routines. Do NOT ask us to diagnose your acne/skin condition or advise on how to treat it. This is not a dermatology clinic!. Rule themes on file include: Please stay on topic!; Be kind to others, and to yourself.; No spam, self-promotion or referral codes.; No playing doctor or requesting acne/medical advice.. Prefer clear titles and enough context for strangers to answer; jokes-first top replies usually miss the point when rules emphasize genuine help.
Before you post
Common flairs in the sample: Routine Help, Body Care, Product Question, Educational / Discussion. Recent sample composition: text:66, image:33, gallery:24, link:1. Mo. Format-sensitive rules to read first: No spam, self-promotion or referral codes.; No playing doctor or requesting acne/medical advice.. Treat subscriber and posts-per-day figures as directory snapshots, not live Reddit counters.
How it differs
Compared with broader chat rooms, this community’s collected rules push toward answerable questions and away from advice-bans or joke-first threads when those appear on file. Always re-check live rules before posting.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Aug 16, 2016, which makes it 10 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 358 subscribers (+0.02%). Among the 19 communities on our skincare list it is number 4 by size. It sits just behind r/halo (#544) and ahead of r/animation (#546) in our ranking.
What sets r/Skincare_Addiction apart
r/Skincare_Addiction is more of a browsing community than a debating one: 5.8 comments per post on average, well under the Top 100 median of 13.3. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (17:00 UTC) sees about 12.0× as many posts as the quietest (00:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/Skincare_Addiction climbed from 2,012,568 to 2,014,754 subscribers (+2.2K, +0.11%). That is about 50 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/Skincare_Addiction talks about
Looking at the titles of 124 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “skin”, “skincare”, “help”, “face” and “routine”. Other frequent themes are products, product, body, cream, dry and care. Recurring phrases include “face wash”, “skincare routine”, “skin care” and “body butter”. By format, 53% are text posts, 27% are images and 19% are galleries.
Popular post flairs: Routine Help (38), Body Care (25), Product Question (19), Educational / Discussion (11), Dryness (9), Misc (8).
Activity and best time to post
r/Skincare_Addiction gets about 21 new posts a day. The public archive holds 172,649 posts and 997,935 comments in total, about 5.8 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Wednesday (22 posts) and the quietest was Sunday (11). Posting peaks around 17:00 UTC and is lowest around 00:00 UTC.
Rules of r/Skincare_Addiction
The moderators of r/Skincare_Addiction list 7 rules. In short:
- Please stay on topic!
- Be kind to others, and to yourself.
- No spam, self-promotion or referral codes.
- No playing doctor or requesting acne/medical advice.
- No MLM's. Period.
- No NSFW.
- Moderator discretion.
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/Skincare_Addiction and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How big is r/Skincare_Addiction?
r/Skincare_Addiction has 2,014,754 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #545 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 2,186 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How old is r/Skincare_Addiction?
r/Skincare_Addiction was created on Aug 16, 2016, so it has been around for 10 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Aug 17, 2016.
How active is r/Skincare_Addiction?
Very active: r/Skincare_Addiction gets about 21 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 172,649 posts and 997,935 comments. In a sample of 124 recent posts we counted 121 different authors.
When is r/Skincare_Addiction most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Wednesday and the quietest Sunday, and most posts arrive around 17:00 UTC, with the fewest around 00:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/Skincare_Addiction about?
The community describes itself as: “This sub is a relaxed community to discuss skincare products and routines. Do NOT ask us to diagnose your acne/skin condition or advise on how to treat it. This is not a dermatology clinic!” Recent post titles often mention skin, skincare, help, face and routine. Most posts are text posts (53%).
Is r/Skincare_Addiction safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/Skincare_Addiction as an 18+ (NSFW) community, and its own rules forbid NSFW content. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/Skincare_Addiction?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/Skincare_Addiction accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 7 posted rules, starting with: “Please stay on topic!”; “Be kind to others, and to yourself.”; “No spam, self-promotion or referral codes.”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/Skincare_Addiction?
Communities with similar topics include r/SkincareAddiction (5M), r/30PlusSkinCare (2.5M), r/AsianBeauty (3.8M), r/MakeupAddiction (7.6M) and r/RoastMe (6M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/Skincare_Addiction.