Is Alcohol Bad For Your Skin?
Last week on the blog we wrote all about how parabens and silicones affect your skin. To continue our ingredient series, we’re going to be chatting about whether or not alcohols are bad when used in skincare products. Most products that you encounter will have alcohol...
Are The Silicones and Parabens in my Beauty Products Giving Me Cancer?
In this day and age, we have an entire wealth of knowledge at our fingertips everyday. We are surrounded by new opinions, new facts, and new fictions every which way you turn, and ways to dispute them around every corner. In this Goop Era, with a constant stream of...
The Importance of Keeping Your Acne-Prone Skin Hydrated.
We know that you’ve seen the acne treatment that sweeped everyone’s bathroom shelf in the past decade, the little pink bottle of ointment that reads ‘Drying Lotion’. Along with this bottle of treatment, came the craze of just needing to ‘dry out’ your pimples, and...
How To Fade Acne Marks
In our skin clinic, once we get someone’s acne cleared we are often asked how to clear away any acne marks that have been left behind to remind us of what once was. Acne marks, otherwise known as post inflammatory erythema (PIE) are red or dark marks that occur...
The Benefits of LED Light Therapy for the Skin
If you’ve been on Instagram lately, you’ve probably seen the common lifestyle blogger wearing something that resembles a welding mask with lights around it, à la barbie meets tron. You’ve probably been both intrigued, and confused by this beauty trend, are we going to...