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How to Care for Your Baby’s Sensitive Skin

As you get older and the wrinkles start to set in, you may start to long for “baby soft” skin, but babies’ skin isn’t always as flawless as it’s ma...

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14 Common Myths About Sunscreen

Sunscreen has come a long way since its early days when it was thick, washed off easily, and only had an SPF of 2. Now there’s hundreds of sunscree...

All About the Skin Microbiome

We’ve been clinging to anti-bacterial hand soaps, sanitizers, and cleaning supplies for the past year, and bacteria has gotten a bit of a bad rep. ...

The Difference Between Dermatologist Tested and Dermatologist Recommended

Shopping for new skin care products can be stressful, especially if you have sensitive skin (and we all know stress can make skin problems even wor...

Difference Between Day Cream and Night Cream

With skin care shelves piled high with dozens of different creams, cleansers, oils, and lotions, it's easy to get lost amongst the bottles. You mi...

Lifestyle Habits and Environmental Factors that Affect Your Skin

Cleanser: check. Moisturizer: check. Serum: check. Sunscreen: check. Just because your whole skin care routine is in check, doesn't mean your skin ...

Alternative Uses for Lip Balm

We all keep, or at least try to keep, a tube of lip balm on our person at all times. Although, it’s a rarity to actually finish a stick of lip balm...

Shower Habits for Healthy Skin

Showering is second nature for most of us. Whether you drag yourself out of bed in the morning to wake up your senses, or use it to decompress afte...

Benefits of Kaolin Clay for the Skin

Picture a face mask. No, not the personal protective equipment kind that gives you maskne. We’re talking about the skin care product that comes in ...

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Skinimalism: Why You Should Use Fewer Skin Care Products

Lots of us have been scaling back our skincare shelves lately, since our faces aren’t out and about all that often nowadays, and the blurry webcams...

Is Phenoxyethanol Bad for You and Your Skin?

With “clean beauty” being all the rage lately, you’ve most likely seen a laundry list or two of skin care ingredients to avoid. We even have our ow...

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Guide to Face Scrubs: Best and Worst Ingredients in Physical Exfoliants

Our skin is repeatedly dying and rejuvenating like some kind of zombie. But it can't always do this zombification on it's own, and sometimes it nee...