How to Accelerate Your Skin’s Renewal
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How to Accelerate Your Skin’s Renewal

When our skin’s renewal process slows down, wrinkles become more visible, skin can feel drier, and dullness can set it. It can even cause increased incidents of breakouts. A daily skin care regimen like the Metrin Skincare System definitely helps reduce the signs of aging, but as we go through the changes in our lives, increased stress,…

Make Sense of Skin Care Ingredients and Product Labels.
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Make Sense of Skin Care Ingredients and Product Labels.

Any product, especially anything involving your skin’s health, is only as good as its ingredients and formulation. In other words, you are not buying just random ingredients but a whole package. That’s why it’s so important to learn how to make sense of skin care ingredients and product labels. Scientific-sounding labels and names of ingredients…

What ‘Fragrance-Free’ Skin Care Really Means
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What ‘Fragrance-Free’ Skin Care Really Means

We’ve talked a lot about skin care ingredients and confusion around common misconceptions. Another popular one revolves around marketing or labeling and how markers like “unscented” and “fragrance-free” are actually very different and can cause a lot of confusion. Fragrances are the most common cause of allergies on the skin. “Fragrance” doesn’t refer to perfumes…

Skin Care Allergies and Contact Dermatitis
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Skin Care Allergies and Contact Dermatitis

One of the biggest concerns surrounding beauty products, especially those who suffer from sensitive skin, are skin care allergies and irritation to certain products and their ingredients. With any allergic or inflammatory response, it’s usually caused by ingredients within products that are left on the skin. There are two types of skin inflammation known contact…

Why Skin Care Sometimes Causes Irritation
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Why Skin Care Sometimes Causes Irritation

We use skin care products to make our skin better and treat common issues like dryness or aging. So why do new skin care products or routines sometimes initially cause irritation, redness, or flakiness? The answer depends on your particular skin and what it’s accustomed to in terms of product usage and its condition before any…

How Beauty Sleep Effects Your Skin Care
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How Beauty Sleep Effects Your Skin Care

We talk a lot about the best skin care practices and how everything should work towards a healthy lifestyle and greater philosophy of self-care. However, if you’re not getting enough sleep and complementing any daily skin care routine in tandem with proper rest every night then all those efforts will be for naught. Sleep and skin care…

The Benefits of Allantoin in Skin Care
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The Benefits of Allantoin in Skin Care

Allantoin is a common and well-regarded ingredient found in and widely used in many popular skin care products. As a chemical compound that’s good for the skin, it’s one of the more versatile ingredients in use. It’s also known to be effective in helping the skin heal and renew itself. A 2015 study by the University…