I’ve been on the skincare roller coaster too. I grew up thinking that if I just covered my skin with Mac Studio Fix and washed it off at night, I’d be good. But then my redness started showing through multiple layers of Studio Fix. I was in my 30s and pregnant before I learned that…
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,…