skin care
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L’Oréal and Alphabet’s Verily Are Working on Extremely Personal Skincare
L’Oréal is always experimenting with ways to make beauty a more tech-savvy industry, with a personalised makeup dispenser, a home hair dye device, wearable UV sensors, and more. Weird gadgets aside, the company is now partnering with Verily, Google parent Alphabet’s biotech subsidiary, with a goal of making beauty and skincare even more personal, but…
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Do You Really Need A Sunscreen With Blue Light Protection?
Choosing the best sunscreen is already a daunting task, what with the myriad of confusing SPF options, sprays, sticks, and lotions, mineral versus chemical, water-resistant or sheer, and so on. The task has only been made more confusing in the past few years as new (and often expensive) sunscreens have begun to market themselves as…
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What Is Fungal Acne And Why Do So Many People Suddenly Think They Have It?
Illustration: Angelica Alzona (Gizmodo) Have you ever had a breakout that wouldn’t go away for weeks, maybe even months, no matter which products you threw at it? Did it consist of a lot of small bumps? Was it a little itchy?
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I Tried A DNA-Optimised Skincare Routine — And I Was Allergic To It
The pitch was a skincare routine designed especially for me, genetically optimised to give me the skin I was “born to have.” The reality was decidedly more itchy, flaky, and red.