Skin Care to Avoid and Add while Pregnant

Skin Care to Avoid and Add while Pregnant

My husband and I have decided to start having children. It's a weird feeling honestly. I'm nervous, excited and freaking out; we're not pregnant yet. That whole #adulting thing feels so stupid when I realize that we're considering bringing a child into the mix. The ultimate adult moment. What make me think of writing this [...]

Who Ensures Safety of Your Skin Care and Makeup?

Who Ensures Safety of Your Skin Care and Makeup?

Quick answer: the US Food and Drug Administration (the FDA). But it's actually not that clear cut. Let's say you're a youtuber and want to launch a lipstick, we're talking hypothetically for the millennial crowd, there are a series of things legally you can and cannot include in your lipstick. That list is maintained by [...]

Ingredient Review: Denatured alcohol

Denatured alcohol simply put is a drinkable alcohol that has been chemically altered or had another chemical added to it to make it unpallible. In skincare its most common to see alcohol that has had another chemical added to it forming SDA (specially denatured alcohol). You can find this a lot in skincare. Denatured alcohol, [...]