You have tried the product. The one your friend swore by, the one with 4,000 five-star reviews, the one the dermatologist recommended. It worked for about a week. Then your skin went right back to where it started. Here is why. Clear skin is not a product problem. It is a system problem. And most…
Walk into any store and you will see “organic” on half the labels. Green packaging. Leaf logos. Words like “naturally derived” and “plant-based.” Most of it means very little. There is no single federal regulation that defines “organic” in skincare the way the USDA defines it for food. A product can contain 2% organic aloe…
The old approach to clearing your skin went something like this: wash with something harsh, apply something that burns, dry everything out, repeat. If that did not work, get a prescription for something stronger. The problem was never intensity. It was direction. Most conventional treatments attack symptoms from the surface while ignoring everything happening underneath….
I think about skincare the same way I think about cooking. If I’m making dinner, I want real ingredients. Things I can recognize. Things that came from somewhere I can point to on a map. One of my favorite skincare “products” is literally just manuka honey. I put it on my face as a mask,…