The Blog
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Dry Skin and a Damaged Barrier Are Not the Same Problem
Almost always repeated inputs rather than one dramatic event. Over-cleansing. Water that's too hot. Actives used more often than the skin can recover from. Fragrance. Physical exfoliation. And underneath all...
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How to Read a Skincare Label
In most skincare, the base is water, plus the emulsifiers that hold water and oil together, plus the thickeners that make it feel like a cream instead of a puddle,...
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Natural Deodorant: Why Body Odor Is a Signal (and How Magnesium Fixed Mine)
I quit conventional deodorant years ago and never went back. Here's how that actually happened, because the story is the whole point. After my first baby, in early 2019, I...
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Water: Fluoride, Filters, and What Actually Matters
Here's the truth about me: I'll come home and drink nothing but straight aquifer mountain well water, or splurge (financially) on deuterium-depleted Litewater — and I'll also happily go out...
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Why Your Skin Is Oily and Dry at the Same Time
The goal is barrier repair, not oil control. That means gentler cleansing — less frequent, lower-surfactant formulas, lukewarm rather than hot water. It means not over-exfoliating, which is another way...
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Why Your Skin Freaks Out During Seasonal Transitions (And Why Spring is Often the Worst Month)
Your skin isn't broken. It's behind. Give it a few weeks, keep the routine stable, and resist the urge to overhaul. Transitional flares almost always settle once the environment does....
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I Don’t Believe in Skincare
This is another thing I have noticed. For all the explosion in products, information, and routines, people do not seem calmer about their skin. They seem more anxious. More products,...
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Food Isn't Fuel
This is also where I think skincare and food actually overlap more than people realize. A lot of conventional beauty messaging teaches the same fragmentation as conventional nutrition messaging: isolate...
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Efficient Eating
We are surrounded by food content, recipe content, grocery content, macro content, restaurant content, snack content, wellness content, and endless debates about ingredients, yet many people still act like feeding...
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Cooking from Scratch
Is our food boring? Yes, sometimes. But everybody eats. Everybody is full. Everybody feels good. And I think that matters a lot more than whether dinner was original. There is...
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Let Them Be Sick
If you'd prefer to listen instead of read, here's a link to the podcast episode on Spotify: SOME NUANCE REQUIRED, Ep. 5: Let Them Be Sick I think one of...
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Not Up to Date
A well-oriented person may not know every current debate, but they know how to think. They know what they value. They know what kind of life they are trying to...
