Habits

How To Cleanse Your Pores At-Home

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How To Cleanse Your Pores At-Home

One of the procedures that I consider a highlight at the K-beauty spa where I often get facials is their pore vacuum cleaner. After the facialist ...

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BLT Mom Presents: How To Read Skincare Ingredients Lists

Once I had kids, I became more mindful or what they were eating and what I was putting on their body. I tried to buy organic food when I could, res...

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Why Your Skincare Products Need Preservatives

As someone who often likes to compare skincare products to food, I understand the concern around preservatives in skincare products. Just like most...

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Synthetic vs. Natural Skincare Ingredients

The beauty industry is rife with a lot of jargon - natural, organic, vegan, synthetic, clean, plant-based - how should we think about each of these...

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Why Higher Percentages Aren’t Always Better In Skincare

When I first started incorporating active ingredients like AHAs, Vitamin C and Retinol into my skincare routine, I took the same over-achieving att...

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Ingredients To Avoid In Skincare And Why

As a former shopaholic who couldn’t satiate her desire for more, more and even more, I’m proud of the relatively minimalistic lifestyle I lead toda...

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Ingredient Spotlight: Ceramides

When it comes to moisturizers, besides retinol, the key ingredients I look for are peptides and ceramides. We’ve previously discussed the benefits ...

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Ingredient Spotlight: Vitamin E

When I was a young girl, of all of my mom’s skincare products, her vitamin E capsules looked the most interesting. They appeared very similar to t...

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Ingredient Spotlight: Niacinamide

The health benefits of vitamins A, C and even E are generally well understood, especially as it relates to healthy skin. But what about vitamin B? ...

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My 5-Minute Skin-Friendly Makeup Routine

As much as I love to go makeup free most days, I also appreciate and look forward to my rare "makeup-on" days as well. I’m cognizant to never get ...

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Less Is More - In Skincare Products

One of my pet peeves in skincare is painfully long and indecipherably complicated ingredients lists. Many of the leading brands, despite touting ho...

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Less Is More – One Ingredient & Done For My Thinning Eyebrows

A while ago, I wrote about how my eyebrows were getting thinner with age. I also mentioned how I would be looking into more natural and sustainabl...

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My Skincare Gadgets (Pt. 3 Micro-needling Derma Roller)

Susie was brave enough to try micro-needling at the Korean spa, which required a numbing cream and a high pain tolerance, but I wouldn’t dare. Fir...