AHAs are largely covered due to their complexity and powerful, rapid visual change. However BHAs are the key to creating truly clean, unclogged skin. Today we look at BHA in skin care and why everyone should have it in your routine.
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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 [...]
Why are parabens bad for your skin?
As I'm typing this I'm STILL trying to get over GoT. Really? Really? What? and congratulations to everyone who figured out how to see some of the earlier episodes. Episode 3 especially, and special thanks to Melisandre for the best episode ever and literally lighting the way. Beautiful acting, beautiful writing, beautiful cinematography. Loved GoT. [...]
How to get Bikini ready skin for this summer
This year we aren't planning any major vacations except a long weekend in Corpus Christi, Texas to visit my husbands family. But with summer coming in hard and cruise season upon us, bikini weather is definitely right around the corner and for some of the jetset it's already here. Even in a landlocked state, I [...]
Ingredient Review: Curcumin otherwise known as Turmeric
Recently Sunday Riley dropped their latest face oil C.E.O. Glow. If you follow them on IG (@SundayRiley) you may remember seeing this incredibly elaborate, dramatic, gorgeous, and rather entertaining daily breakdown of the active ingredients they wanted to highlight. Scroll to see the second picture if it doesn't show up for the completed breakdown otherwise [...]
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, [...]
Exfoliators 101
Dead skin, gross. Have you ever cleaned the inside of your vacuum cleaner and removed all the fine dust particles. Most of that is dead skin that stuffs off during the day. For thousands of years, The removal of that skin traditional has been to simply scratch your legs or arms or wherever. Mites would [...]
