People get weird in January. Suddenly everything needs fixing. Drinking, spending, eating, productivity, personality. The pressure to reset has been packaged, branded, and sold back to us as self-improvement. I’m not anti better choices. I’m anti pretending that January is…
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Best retinol treatments that worked magic on my skin. In my early skincare fascination days, retinol felt like the ingredient everyone whispered about but few explained well. The turning point came in 2006, when I read Jean Godfrey-June’s Free Gift…
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Encapsulated. Liposomal. Time-released. These terms show up constantly in skincare marketing, usually implying better absorption, stronger results, or advanced science. Sometimes that is true. Often, it is just expensive vocabulary. Delivery systems can improve stability, tolerance, and how a product…
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This will be a very quick, bite-size post. I plan on sharing more of these. It has been a few years since The Maker hosted me at their hotel in Hudson, New York. The memory is still vivid. Snow falling.…
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Over the years, I’ve heard plenty of complaints about Biologique Recherche cleansing milk formulas. And as with anything in skincare, what works beautifully for some won’t impress others. That said, BR has been getting a fair amount of criticism lately,…
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Jones Road expanded into body care recently and surprised no one with five impeccably considered formulas. Anyone who embraced The Hippie Stick or gravitated toward the brand’s fragrance wardrobe will understand the appeal immediately. Bobbi Brown understands the power of…
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I did not buy this cream. It came as a GWP with an online order, which is usually where my expectations go to die. Also, I tend to ignore viral skincare. Especially the kind pushed aggressively by very young creators…
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Peptides have become one of skincare’s most overused words. Not because they don’t work, but because the term has been stretched to mean everything and nothing at once. In creams especially, “peptide-powered” can signal anything from a thoughtfully built formula…
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