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Consumer choice is a tremendous thing. It’s always important to know what you’re buying, especially when it’s something that could affect your health like skin care products. That’s why I’m in full support of the growing movement toward more honest and clearer labeling so that when shopping for skin care products, we can truly see what we’re putting on our skin.There’s one tricky part, though: labels have become so flooded with terms like “anti-t...

There you are, living your life, minding your own business, when you look in the mirror and suddenly see a brown spot on your skin that you swear you’ve never seen before. What is the unwanted intruder, where did it come from, and most importantly, what can you do about it? We all want that complexion that’s so even and smooth it looks like we’re wearing a full face of foundation, but unwanted spots happen. Before you can get rid of your new u...

You’ve built your skin care routine for one reason and one reason only: so you can enjoy healthy, beautiful skin. That’s a worthy purpose, but you don’t want to make too many sacrifices along the way either, like sacrificing the health and safety of the environment. No judgment, but your skin care routine could be having more impact on the planet than you realize. The simple truth is that most skin care products are built for our convenience...

In the past couple of years, the term ‘reef safe’ has been cropping up into public consciousness. Reef-safe sunscreen and other products offer formulas that are both safe to the body and the environment. Products that aren’t reef safe aren’t just harmful to our ocean ecosystems, but they aren’t exactly great for our human bodies, especially if exposed from a young age.The toxic active ingredients found in popular, commonly used sunscreens enter t...

When it comes to skin care products, sunscreen seems like one of the simplest of the bunch. It’s not an innovative new serum with a never-before-seen formula, nor is it a cream that seems to make wrinkles vanish overnight. It just keeps the sun’s radiation off your skin, right?Truth be told, sunscreen is more complex and scientific than you may realize. In fact, there’s a good chance you’re using it wrong in one way or another. Because sun protec...