Category: healthy-skin

Dry, dull, and patchy skin is a common complaint, especially in the colder months. Now a TikTok trend with a catchy name promises to provide an overnight solution to transform your compromised complexion and give it that summer glow, using just a tub of petroleum, or petrolatum, jelly. “Slugging” is the fancy new term for… Continue reading Slugging Is Popular on TikTok: Should You Try the Skin-Care Trend?

If you’re on the skin-care side of Instagram or TikTok, chances are you’ve seen the words “skin cycling” floating around recently. Maybe you’ve noticed friends using the hashtag #skincycling in their posts, or heard it mentioned as part of influencers’ daily skin-care regimes. On TikTok, #skincycling is associated with 122.3M views, and overall, posts that… Continue reading What Is ‘Skin Cycling,’ and Should You Try It?

Skin-care enthusiasts and wellness fanatics have been adding a scoop of collagen peptides to their coffee, taking collagen supplements along with their morning vitamins, and now, drinking collagen water, thanks to the latest social media trend. Followers of the trend claim the drink encourages healthy hair, skin, joints, and bones. Collagen is mostly known for… Continue reading Is Collagen Water Good for You?

Beauty influencers on TikTok are sticking silicone patches on their faces and necks overnight, reporting smoother, bouncier skin the next morning. Called wrinkle patches, these products cost less than $50 a pack. Frownies, SiO, and Wrinkles Schminkles are popular brands. “Although wrinkle patches are having a TikTok moment right now, they are not new and in fact have… Continue reading What Are Wrinkle Patches, and Can They Really Give You Smoother Skin?

Being stressed out can have a major impact on your health — and that extends to your skin health, too. Stress can lead to breakouts and exacerbate conditions such as eczema and psoriasis, experts say, and that’s just one example of how what you’re feeling on the inside can show up on the outside. “Your… Continue reading 5 Ways Your Mood Can Affect Your Skin

Everyone wants clear and healthy skin — even if that means slathering snail slime all over it. Yes, the latest in out-there skin-care ingredients is the mucus that’s left behind when the slow little creature crawls by. Technically called snail mucin, the ingredient has long been popular in South Korea, which some consider the most… Continue reading What Is Snail Mucin? Benefits, Side Effects, Usage, More

Choice is wonderful. Usually, it means you can find a product that’s perfectly suited to your needs. But when it comes to your skin care, the sheer amount of choice in moisturizers, coupled with the sometimes-confusing label lingo, is often enough to make you grab the first thing you see on the shelf and hope… Continue reading A Complete Guide to Skin Moisturizers

Ozempic, a type 2 diabetes medication, is the buzziest weight loss trend of the moment. Hashtags like #ozempic and #ozempicweightloss have more than 703 million views and counting on TikTok alone, and sudden demand has led to shortages of the prescription-only drug as well as its obesity treatment counterpart Wegovy. Now another hashtag is trending,… Continue reading 'Ozempic Face': How Weight Loss Changes the Skin, and the Treatments That Can Help

Sunscreen isn't just a summer staple — it's a year-round must-have. "It's important to wear sunscreen regularly," says Hadley King, MD, a board-certified dermatologist based in New York City. "Much of the sun exposure and sun damage that we get is from daily incidental exposure, not just from days at the beach." Not wearing sunscreen puts… Continue reading Sunscreen Types 101: Which SPF Product Is Right for You?

If you recently stocked up on sunscreen for summer, take a look at your products. Johnson & Johnson announced this week that it’s voluntarily recalling five of its Neutrogena and Aveeno spray sunscreens because the carcinogen benzene was detected in some samples. The recall is “out of an abundance of caution,” the company said in… Continue reading Johnson & Johnson Recalls Neutrogena, Aveeno Spray Sunscreens