On paper, it sounds like it would be tough to fall in love with Skinceuticals C E Ferulic Serum. It’s a $166 investment, smells like hot dogs, and it isn’t packaged in a millennial pink bottle. And yet, like all great tales of love, none of this seems significant because the ending (bright, glowing, luminous…
No matter which skin issues you’re currently bemoaning, chances are your routine could benefit from a vitamin C serum. The antioxidant is one of the few skin care ingredients dermatologists will back for its noticeable brightening, protective, and collagen-boosting properties. “Vitamin C is an antioxidant,” says dermatologist Kenneth Howe, M.D., at Wexler Dermatology. “When ultraviolet…
While for some Summer Fridays simply means leaving work early, for beauty lovers the term has taken on a totally new meaning since the brand behind Instagram’s favorite masks hit the scene in 2018. After reaching cult status with their first product, the Jet Lag Mask, co-founders Marianna Hewitt and Lauren Gores Ireland have since…
I have a confession: As much as I confidently advise all my friends, colleagues, and random strangers to slather their faces in the best retinol creams and serums, I rarely go anywhere near them myself. As someone who takes pride in being glowy, you’d think I’d be be stocking up. The vitamin A derivative has…
By now you know the drill: Every few months a new wunderkind skin care ingredient is discovered in some remote locale, and pretty soon it’s everywhere—in your masks, serums, foot creams, insert-step-in-your-beauty-routine-here. But at the end of the day, there are only a handful of ingredients that have stood the test of time and truly…
To hear dermatologists tell it, if you’ve ever walked outside, your skin would be better for using a vitamin C serum. Years of sun exposure leads to free radicals, which over time make for skin that looks dull, uneven, tired, and generally not its best. Regularly using vitamin C, which is full of antioxidants (the…