Tag: ahas
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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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Why Is Glycolic Acid Good For Your Skin?
AHAs are one of the most well researched group of ingredients in skincare. Glycolic acid is a water-soluble alpha hydroxy acid (AHA) that is derived from sugar cane. It’s also one of the most well-known and widely used alpha-hydroxy acids in the skincare industry. So, why exactly is it so popular?
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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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The Best Exfoliating Masks of 2019
I just thought I’d share some of my favourite exfoliating masks/overnight treatment kinda things since a few of you DM’d me recently wondering which one’s I’ve used and loved. There are only four but honestly you’ll probably find a firm fave somewhere in this small selection: The Ordinary AHA/BHA (yes it has a bit of both)…
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Anti-Aging Ingredients 3: Alpha Hydroxy Acids
Part 3 in the ‘Science behind anti-aging’ series is here and this time we are delving into the world alpha hydroxy acids – one of the most talked about category of acids in recent years.
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Lactic acid vs Salicylic acid
Two beloved acids for oily, sensitive skin but what makes them different? I know, I know. I’m sorry it’s taken so long to write another vs article but it’s here and it’s a great one. This one is an important one for me to write as I see salicylic and lactic acid being bunched together…
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Biologique Recherche: Everything you need to know
I was stumbling through my sister’s skincare collection when I found the, so proclaimed magical, p50 balancing exfoliator. I without hesitation tried it, expecting an overnight miracle but what I saw was far from. Really nothing had happened. And as ANY reasonable person would have done I turned to Instagram to see if anyone else…
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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,…