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All About Your Skin’s Acid Mantle & How You Could Be Damaging It
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All About Your Skin’s Acid Mantle & How You Could Be Damaging It

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Choosing The Best Vitamin C Serum For Your Skin’s Needs

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What You Probably Don’t Know About Moisturizer
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Is Your Cleanser Ruining Your Skin?

Beginners Guide to Beta Hydroxy Acid (BHA)
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Beginners Guide to Beta Hydroxy Acid (BHA)

The Ordinary Vitamin C Suspension 23% + HA Spheres 2% Review
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The Ordinary Vitamin C Suspension 23% + HA Spheres 2% Review

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What You Probably Don’t Know About Moisturizer

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People usually think of a moisturizer as simply a moisturizer, but there’s a lot more to it than that. The truth is that moisturizers probably don’t do what most people…

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Is Your Cleanser Ruining Your Skin?

Cleansing is an important part of most peoples’ skin care routine. Rightly so since cleansing can literally make or break your skin. Most people don’t think about any harm that…

Developing a Skincare Routine

Beginners Guide to Beta Hydroxy Acid (BHA)

In this introductory post I’ll tell you the properties of BHA and what role it plays in skincare. You’ll also find out who should be using BHA, and more specifically…

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The Ordinary Vitamin C Suspension 23% + HA Spheres 2% Review

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I first heard about The Ordinary’s 23% Vitamin C Suspension with 2% HA Spheres on r/skincareaddiction. I was just starting to learn about vitamin C serums and knew that shelf…

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Drunk Elephant C-Firma Day Serum Review

Drunk Elephant C-Firma vitamin c serum has a good reputation among vitamin C serums. It scored top points in our ranking of the most popular  serums on the market, so…

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Micro Needling for Scars (with Before & Afters)

Micro needling has brought a lot to the world of scar treatment. Lasers and chemical peels are among the gold standards of skin improvement, but sometimes they aren’t the best…

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5 Cleansers That Can Restore Your Moisture Barrier

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Cleansing is an integral part of a skin care routine but did you know that the wrong cleanser can give you problem skin? Harsh cleansers can literally wash away the…

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Simple Guide to the Clinical Research on Vitamin C in Skin Care

Since it was discovered in 1912 there’s been a lot of research on the role of vitamin C in skin care. This post simplifies the research with short summaries of…

Developing a Skincare Routine

How to Use a Microneedling Dermapen at Home

A micro needling roller is a great addition to your existing skin care routine. It plumps up the skin and makes your products work better.  But what about an electric…

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All About Your Skin’s Acid Mantle & How You Could Be Damaging It

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Just like some people’s skin is more sensitive than others, some people’s acid mantles are more sensitive than others. In fact, you might have a sensitive acid mantle even while…

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Choosing The Best Vitamin C Serum For Your Skin’s Needs

I set out writing this post with one simple goal in mind: Identify objective criteria that help cut through the hype so I can find the best vitamin c serum on…

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67 Vitamin C Serums Compared

If you’ve ever looked into getting a vitamin C serum you know that finding the best one is much more difficult than it sounds. There are so many formulations, reviews,…

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Andalou Naturals 1000 Roses Beautiful Day Cream Review

I picked up this Andalou Naturals 1000 Roses Beautiful Day Cream on a natural beauty haul a few weeks ago. It all started with a power outage that ended up…

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Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are | Amy Cuddy TED Talk Review

With over 38 million views and counting there’s good reason that this is one of the most popular TED Talks of all time. Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are by Harvard…

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The Best & Most Budget Friendly Non-Toxic Dry Shampoo

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Commercially produced dry shampoo has surged in popularity and availability over the last decade or so. It’s become a very common component of many people’s toiletry cache, which unfortunately has normalized…

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Elizavecca Milky Piggy Carbonated Clay Mask Review

Elizavecca Milky Piggy Carbonated Clay Mask continues to be the introductory Asian Beauty product for a lot of people. You may not remember where or when you first heard of…

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Guide to the Most Effective Vitamins & Supplements For Integrative Acne Treatment

There are a lot of reasons to consider adding acne supplements to your arsenal, not least of which is the problems with conventional treatment and the fringe benefits of taking…

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