A new start-up — launched by some longtime beauty players — wants to make corticosteroid acne injections more accessible.

Called Indomo, the company has developed an at-home mode of delivery for the steroid injection, which currently can only be administered in-office by dermatologists and is known to rapidly treat cystic and inflammatory acne.

The innovation, called the ClearPen, will be available via prescription pending FDA approval.

“[Corticosteroid shots] are kind of this miracle treatment for acne, but in the U.S., we’re understaffed in dermatologist offices and if you have a flare-up, it can be difficult to get into one in a timely fashion,” said Jack Abraham, founder of Indomo and its incubator, Atomic. Abraham is also a cofounder of Hims & Hers, a telehealth platform that sim

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