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When you’re breezing through your nightly skin care routine, you’re focusing on how to get your skin looking and feeling great (or, if you’re like me, you’re already half-asleep and you’re just going through the motions without thinking at all). As it turns out, though, that ordinary routine could be doing more damage to the environment than you realize. Sure, you recycle your plastic bottles when your products run out and you use a reusable c...

If you’ve fought a persistent bout of acne and have finally come out triumphant, it may feel like the battle has been won. However, like a cruel trick, acne often can gift you with another problem. Scars. Even when acne has been dealt with, they can leave unwanted blemishes lingering on your skin long after the breakout has finished. Raised scars, indents, and patches of pigmentation can remain for months or even years on the skin. For some, i...

You wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see a dull grayness to your skin. You take a closer look and see so many little black spots in your pores that you look like you walked into a tattoo shop and asked for full-body polka dots. These are the dreaded blackheads, and they’re no one’s best friends. Why have they decided to plague your face and what can you do about them, you ask? I have all the details you need to know to...

We all want beautiful, glowing, youthful skin that makes us feel confident with or without makeup, right? There’s no shame in that. To reach that dermatological fountain of youth, though, some people are constantly hopping from one trend to the next, looking for that one magical ingredient that solves all their skin problems. That epic quest has led to some pretty crazy trends, to put it mildly. As it turns out, folks will put just about anyth...