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Packaging Sustainability

The One Move That Makes Your Empties Recyclable

By Rae Indigo

You rinse the bottle, drop it in the recycling bin, and get on with your day. For most skincare packaging, that is the moment the...

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Routines Skin Barrier

How to Repair a Damaged Skin Barrier

By Rae Indigo

How to tell whether your skin barrier is damaged, what actually repairs it, how long it takes, and why one repair often clears up four...

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Breakouts Seasonal

Why Your Skin Breaks Out Over the Holidays

By Rae Indigo

Breakouts, redness, congestion and sensitivity all turn up at once in December and look like four separate problems. Usually they are one problem wearing four...

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Hydration Skin Barrier

Dry Skin or Dehydrated Skin? How to Tell, and What Each One Needs

By Rae Indigo

Dry skin is short of oil. Dehydrated skin is short of water. They feel almost identical, they need opposite things, and treating the wrong one...

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Woman in her late forties with calm, healthy skin sitting by a window in warm winter light, candles and a sprig of evergreen beside her
Routines Seasonal

The Holiday Skin Survival Guide

By Rae Indigo

Late nights, dry planes, heated rooms and more wine than water. What December actually does to your face, and the short list that keeps up...

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F88 Rose Gold Radiance Toner, a rose hydrosol toner made without alcohol denat
Ingredients Skin Barrier

What Alcohol Denat Is Doing In Your Toner

By Rae Indigo

If your toner leaves your face squeaky and tight, that feeling is usually one ingredient. Alcohol denat evaporates in seconds and takes some of your...

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A woman in her forties outdoors in autumn light, skin clear and even in texture
Congestion Pores

The Truth About Pore Size

By Rae Indigo

A pore looks smaller when it is empty. What actually sets the size you see, what nothing can change, and the four jobs that make...

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Ceramides Skin Barrier

The Skin Barrier, and Everything It Holds Together

By Rae Indigo

Acne and aging get sold as opposite problems. Dryness and dehydration get used as the same word. All four run through one layer of your...

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A woman outdoors in autumn, her skin reflecting light evenly
Glass Skin Hydration

What Actually Creates Glass Skin

By Rae Indigo

Glass skin is not a product. It is light behaving a certain way on a surface that is smooth, full of water, and intact. Here...

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