Tag: glycolic acid and lactic acid
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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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Mandelic Acid Vs Glycolic Acid
Mandelic acid vs glycolic acid is the first versus post I have done in months! I know you guys love these and I’m excited to be able to share this one with you, because you’ve been asking for this one for ages! The basic structure for these posts are simple. We will look into what…
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Is Glycolic Acid An AHA or BHA?
Welcome back to my series of quick fire skincare questions asked directly by you! Today is a super simple one to answer, is Glycolic acid an AHA or BHA? Glycolic acid is actually the most common type of AHA. It’s made from a widely available plant, sugar cane. Glycolic acid is a very effective exfoliant, and because…
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What Does Glycolic Acid Do To Your Skin?
Glycolic acid is THE acid that started the chemical exfoliation craze way back when but there is still SO many questions about what it is and how it works. The thing that, I think, confuses people is that acids have the ability to completely transform your skin but you can’t actually see it happening. So,…
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Is Lactic Acid Good For Your Skin?
Welcome to the second in what is going to be a long series of quick fire skincare questions! The first of which, Can I Use Mandelic Acid Everyday? you can find right here. This time I am tackling lactic acid because it seems to be a contradiction. Lactic acid is commonly known as the gentlest…
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What Does Lactic Acid Do?
Direct acids are intimidating. It doesn’t matter how you want to dress it up, if you are not used to working with them they are a scarey step to add into your routine. No matter how many posts I do on them there are still so many questions that I am DM’d and I think…
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Is Lactic Acid Stronger Than Glycolic Acid?
So many acids, so little time to decide which one is right for you – so here is your cheat sheet. My posts about acids in skincare are by far the most popular one’s I’ve done. I believe that’s mainly because there is so much choice (very affordable choice at that) but not a lot…