Tag: ahas vs bhas
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What Is Glycolic Acid? The Essential Skincare Alphabet
If you’ve been following me for a long time, you’ll know that glycolic acid is one of my favourite ingredients. When it came to picking an ingredient for letter G, the brainstorming didn’t take long. There are still so many people who are confused about this acid. Today, I’m going to attempt to create a…
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The Essential Skincare Alphabet, What Are AHA’s?
Welcome to my new series! The Essential Skincare Alphabet. Starting with, What Are AHA’s? This new series is going to explore all the ingredients that make up the skincare language. Well, the current skincare language anyway. My aim is to create my own ‘dictionary’ which will be available on Science and Skincare 24/7. This is…
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Your Guide To Polyhydroxy Acids (PHA) In Skincare
If you’re particularly into skin care, then your likely already exfoliating with alpha hydroxy acids and beta hydroxy acids but over the past year another three-letter acronym has been all the rage: PHAs. But what are they, and how do they differ from their alpha- and beta- counterparts? So, what are PHAs? Polyhydroxy acids (PHAs) are chemical exfoliants…
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AHAs vs BHAs
I made a very (like yesterday) recent discovery – I’ve never written a post solely about the difference between AHAs and BHAs. I have, of course, discussed this in separate posts like my acid posts but nothing dedicated to it specifically. That horrified me for two reasons; when I was a skincare novice I didn’t…
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Lactic Acid Vs Hyaluronic Acid
Let me first make clear this isn’t really a comparative because technically these acids do different things. However, they do need to be differentiated because the world of acids in skincare is a confusing one and one of the questions I get asked most is which one do I use? The short answer, of course,…