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Dry skin has some difficulty removing the top layer of cells through desquamation, leaving a white or grey look to the skin from those cells that refuse to move! We can help them along by creating a lovely occlusive, moisturizing, and exfoliating sugar scrub we can use in the shower or tub. Because we’re using...
I love love love scrub bars for my body and my feet. Like sugar scrubs, they offer moisturizing by trapping in water from your shower or bath after exfoliating all that non-desquamated skin from your stratum corneum. (Okay, I don’t really say this in real life. I usually say, “Pretty” or “Nice”!) So how can...
You know I’m a chemistry fan – hey, I married a man named Nichols so I could be Susan Ni2 – so here are a few most excellent periodic tables for your amusement…The periodic table of awesomements! It’s so awesome, it should have its own place on the periodic table of awesomements…which gets into a...
So you’ve read all the posts on skin types, and you’ve figured out what you are…how do you put it into action? Look at the goals of each skin type and the suggested ingredients, then figure out what would work best as a starting point for your formulations. As a note, I’m finding that what’s...
There’s not much to say about the tight or T skin type. You have no wrinkles and no sagging, and we all envy you. So let’s focus on the wrinkled or W skin type. How do we define aging skin? It is skin that has… dermal and epidermal atrophy (sagging, wrinkling, coarseness) reduction in amount...