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Ingredient focus: THD Ascorbate
This blog is a deep-dive into THD Ascorbate, a Vitamin C derivative that is found in many, many Vitamin C serums.
How the West does not understand South Asian’s need for skin lighteners
I write about skin lightening frequently enough on my blog, because this is a part of our cultural identity, much like cricket.
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O3+ Professional White Day Cream SPF 15
This product has to be one of the cleverest products I have reviewed in a while. Find out why.
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kaya brightening day cream
Review of kaya’s white lumenis skin lightening product
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Skin whitening injections
Glutathione is a fabulous anti-oxidant. Its found in all her cells. Should we be taking it intravenously to lighten skin?
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Kiehl’s Turmeric & Cranberry Seed Energizing Radiance Mask
I have a love-hate relationship with Kiehl’s. Some of their products I really love…at the moment, I am using their Butterstick Lip treatment, a product which I don’t know how I managed to survive without. However, I dislike the fact
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Skin lighteners in your pantry cupboard: turmeric and saffron
In today’s blog, I’ll be considering the skin lightening ability of turmeric and saffron. Unless you have been living in an igloo off Greenland along with a few endangered species, you will have heard of at least one of these.
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Skin lightener: sandalwood oil
Before I started researching this blog, I wrote out everything I knew about sandalwood. As you can see, it would neatly fit onto a matchbook: Grows in Australia and India Possibly the plant equivalent of an endangered species (?) Used
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lixirskin VITAMIN C PASTE
This is a quick morning mask that contains 10% Vitamin C. It promises to protect and correct in one…
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Skin lightening ingredient: Kojic Acid
The trade names “Dermawhite HS”, “Vegewhite” or my favourite, “Melarrest” are all trade name mixtures where the principal skin lightener is kojic acid. Kojic Acid is a natural agent that’s obtained from koji malt, which has been used for the
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Skin lightening agent: Licorice
How is licorice extract – what we know as a sweet – a skin lightener?
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Skin lightening agent: Aloe vera
The origin of the words Aloe Vera is majestic. Aloe vera derives from “Allaeh” (an Arabic word that means “shining bitter substances”) and “Vera” (Latin word that means “true”) (Sánchez et al). If you live in a hot and dry
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Skin lightener: Mulberry
Mulberry or Morus Alba extract is an exceedingly common ingredient that’s used in skin lightening products.
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Skin Lightening Agent: Vitamin C
I have written endlessly about the benefits of Vitamin C. I am a fan. Is it also a skin lightener?
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FARMACY Bright On Massage-Activated Vitamin C Mask
This is a lavender to green colour changing Vitamin C mask. I am excited to try this sustainable science experiment in a tube.
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Ingredient focus: Niacinamide
This is Part Two on Niacinamide. In Part One, (LINK attached here), I outlined why Niacinamide is important to energy storage in our bodies and how it is a skin lightener. Today’s blog outlines the functions of Niacinamide There is
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Skin lightening ingredient: Niacinamide
Niacinamide is not an ingredient that you would associate with skin lightening, so find out why its so prevalent in products.
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Shiseido Vital Perfection Product Review
This is a 30 day product review of Shiseido’s Vital Perfection skin brightening and anti-aging product line.
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Garnier SkinActive Fairness Cream
It’s not always easy figuring out why certain products contain sunscreen filters, when evidently they are not sunscreens…
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Shiseido 30 day product road test
I am road-testing Shiseido’s Vital Perfection skincare range over a 30 day period.
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fresh Vitamin Nectar Vibrancy Boosting face mask
This is the first “natural” product that I’ve used outside Forest Essential’s range. You’ll be pleased to hear that I paid the full retail price of GBP 21 for 30ml for this product. I purchased it from Space NK (and
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skyn ICELAND Arctic Hydration Rubberizing Mask
I unashamedly bought this in the winter sale at a discount – US$ 20 for 3 masks or US$ 7/mask. It retails at US$ 12/mask. This is a DIY rubber mask – its not literally made of rubber (because that’d
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Glamglow Powermud dualcleanse treatment
Find out if you should donate your money to charity or like me, buy this cleanser/face wash in the sale
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Skin whitening ingredient: Arbutin
Arbutin is a skin whitener /lightener/brightener, depending on your political sensibilities. It comes in three forms: Beta, Alpa and Deoxy (the latter is not used in cosmetics). Beta Arbutin is found naturally in leaves and barks of plants and is
Skincare
Skin lightening – are we deeper trouble than we thought?
I am about to tackle skin lightening products and this is a controversial area. Here is my twopence.
Skincare
The beginners guide to Vitamin C
This is a hands on guide to buying and using your FIRST Vitamin C serum.
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Where the streets are only named after Vitamin C derivatives
I present to you in the simplest manner that I know how, the 101 of Vitamin C derivatives. Not all the derivatives, just the most prevalent ones
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Clinique one month update
I have been using a 10% Vitamin C serum and Ascorbic Acid cleanser for the past month. Here are the interim results of the product test.
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Vitamin C and my fear of missing out
This blog explains in the most basic terms why Vitamin C is still an oldie but goldie when it comes to skincare. Its nothing short of the Holy Grail of skincare