Darnell Cox | 50+ Healthy Aging Expert: 165 products reviewed

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All 165 products Darnell Cox | 50+ Healthy Aging Expert has reviewed, grouped by product type. Click a product to see the full guru consensus.

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Serums32 reviews

Medicube PDRN Pink Peptide Serum

"I went through two of these as well. [...] I love this. It's one of the first things that I use after microneedling when I start adding skincare back into the mix. Love, love, love this."

✓Yay

62%Guru Score

The Ordinary Multi-Peptide + Copper Peptides 1% Serum

"The Ordinary makes a multi-peptide serum with copper peptide in it, that's the GHK-Cu, and I love that as well. It helps with cell proliferation and cell turnover."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Biossance Squalane + Copper Peptide Rapid Plumping Serum

"Biossance makes one with a squalane and GHK-Cu, a copper peptide, which I love."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Costa Baja Hyaluronic Acid Serum

"I normally love this hyaluronic acid, the Costa Baja. I like it because it comes in a big pump. I'm not sure if it's back in stock, it was sold out for a long time, so right now I'm using something else instead."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

VT Reedle Shot 100 Collagen

"These are the VT Reedle Shots, made famous by VT. I'm loving them. What's inside is naturally occurring in sponges in the sea, and when you rub it in it creates little micro channels so that any skincare you put over the top soaks in better, almost like a mini micro needling session. A 100 shot you can use daily, a 300 about three times a week, and a 700 once a week."

✓Yay

59%Guru Score

Allies of Skin Multipeptides & Growth Factor Advanced Lifting Serum

"This multi-peptide advanced lifting is by Allies of Skin. I am obsessed with it, but it's super expensive. It's filled with multiple kinds of peptides, and I can literally tell a difference in the bounciness of my skin when I use this one."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

COSRX 6 Peptide Skin Booster Serum

"I love this peptide. This is by COSRX, a six peptide skin booster. It evens skin tone, hydrates, helps with firmness and smoothness, pore and sebum care, and improves skin texture. It has [...] a copper peptide in it, [...] signaling peptides, and acetyl hexapeptide-8, so it smooths fine lines, and it's so cheap [...] I've got like six of them in the refrigerator because I use them over everything. [...] I am literally seeing a huge difference just from using this on my body every night."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Sunday Riley C.E.O. 15% Vitamin C Brightening Serum

"If you're using peptides, you can switch to a THD derivative vitamin C like this one by Sunday Riley. It's great for sensitive skin because it's only 15% vitamin C with a different pH balance than an L-ascorbic acid, and I love it."

✓Yay

64%Guru Score

SkinFix 15% Vitamin C and Ferulic Acid Serum

"If you're using peptides, you can switch to a THD derivative vitamin C like this one by Skinfix. It's great for sensitive skin because it's only 15% vitamin C with a different pH balance than an L-ascorbic acid, and I love it."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

The Ordinary Niacinamide 10% + Zinc 1%

"The Ordinary Niacinamide 10% plus Zinc 1% is a great product for niacinamide, and [...] it works well alongside a vitamin C, whether you use it in the morning or move it to night if you've got sunspots or hyperpigmentation."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

Paula's Choice 10% Niacinamide Booster with 2% Mandelic Acid and Lactic Acid

"Paula's Choice 10% Niacinamide Booster is a great product for niacinamide, and it works well alongside a vitamin C, whether you use it in the morning or move it to night if you've got sunspots or hyperpigmentation."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

First Aid Beauty Facial Radiance Niacinamide Dark Spot Serum

"I like the First Aid Beauty dark spot niacinamide serum. It works great alongside a vitamin C, whether you use it in the morning or move it to night, if you've got sunspots or hyperpigmentation."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

The Ordinary Multi-Peptide + Hyaluronic Acid Serum

"This is a multi-peptide plus hyaluronic acid serum by The Ordinary. It works really great to put this on first on the neck and then follow with a sealing barrier cream on top."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Medicube Age-R Booster Pro

"I am also liking this microcurrent device by Medicube. I am not using it so much to define the jaw and chin as I am using it on my whole face and neck to help the skincare I put on soak in deeper, and it also has a little bit of ATP production."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

Vanicream Vitamin C Serum

"This is Vanicream. This is super cheap, you guys. Very effective, super cheap, plays well with peptides by Vanicream."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

The Ordinary Hyaluronic Acid 2% + B5

"I know that The Ordinary also makes a great one. I know that Timeless makes a great one, but I like this because of the pump and because of the size of it."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Timeless 100% Pure Hyaluronic Acid Serum

"I know that Timeless makes a great one."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Paula's Choice C15 Super Booster

"I love that Paula's Choice has a C15 Super Booster, which is a 15% vitamin C."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Pro-Collagen Multi-Peptide Booster

"Paula's Choice always makes a good product, their Pro Collagen Multi-Peptide Booster."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

SkinCeuticals P-TIOX Wrinkle Modulating Peptide Cream

"SkinCeuticals makes a PTOX which is like 180 bucks. I personally don't spend a ton of money on skincare, it doesn't cost a fortune. A lot of these really super high priced products are not any better than the cheaper versions of them. Sometimes they are, most of the time they're not."

~Mixed

81%Guru Score

NIOD Copper Amino Isolate Serum 3:1

"If you want the high-end version, the NIOD Copper Amino Isolate Serum 3:1, that'll cost you about 90 bucks, but it is great overall for skin health."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Timeless Matrixyl Synthe'6 Serum

"Timeless makes a stronger one than this, and it's called Timeless Skincare Matrixyl Synthe'6 Serum."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Necessaire Neck Serum Firming Serum with 7.5% Peptides

"So the top products it's best for sagging and for neck, Necessaire Neck Serum is specifically formulated with those peptides that target the tech neck."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

The Ordinary Ascorbic Acid 8% + Alpha Arbutin 2%

"Right on top of that I'm doing a vitamin C serum, and not just for my face, literally whole body. [...] As I am drip drying I put The Ordinary Ascorbic Acid 8% + Alpha Arbutin 2% on. This is not expensive, you guys, and now they made it in a 4 oz bottle. It's very, very watery, so this is what it looks like, I mean it's literally like water. You don't need much, a couple squirts and you rub it on your whole body, everywhere, literally head to toe is how I use this."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Vichy Mineral 89 Hyaluronic Acid Hydrating Serum

"This is like a hyaluronic acid, it's Vichy Mineral 89, it makes a good one for eye bags."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

SkinCeuticals C E Ferulic

"There's also the SkinCeuticals 20% C Ferulic acid that costs a fortune, I think it's like $169. [...] I used it for a long time, I ran out, I have not repurchased it."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

The Ordinary Lactic Acid 10% + Hyaluronic Acid

"My favorite lactic acid is The Ordinary makes a lactic acid 10% plus hyaluronic acid, so this is a lactic acid 10% plus HA which is hyaluronic acid. Lactic acid is a bigger molecule, so if you've got sensitive skin that would be something that's a little bit more tolerable."

✓Yay

95%Guru Score

The INKEY List Mandelic Acid + Hyaluronic Acid

"The less irritating of all of those is mandelic acid and that's for really sensitive skin. [...] I'll oftentimes use this if I'm going to peel my chest and my neck because the skin on your neck is different than the skin on your face. The skin on your neck does not secrete oil, skin on your face secretes oil, the way you treat your neck has to be very different than the way you treat the rest of your body."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Paula's Choice 10% Azelaic Acid Booster

"This one is probably my favorite by Paula's Choice. It's almost empty. Azelaic acid has no effect on pregnancy, no effect on the fetus, no effect on nursing, so this is a really good product. [...] You can use something like that while you're nursing, and then once you're done nursing you can start slowly stepping it back up."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

City Lips Effortless Lips Night Oil

"I'm really loving this lip conditioner, City Lips Effortless Lips Night Oil. I put this lip oil on, took a little scrubber scrubbing my lips and then I slept. I put this on a cotton pad and slept with it."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Timeless 20% Vitamin C + E Ferulic Acid Serum

"This is the Timeless vitamin C, the best vitamin C on the market. The L-ascorbic acid has transformed my body skin. I've been putting this on my entire body for about three or four years now and it has transformed my skin. I've been a fan of this brand for so long, I absolutely love it. If I could bathe in this in the morning I would, and if I could bathe in it in the evening I would too. It works well with retinoids at night, though it doesn't always play nicely with peptides."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Timeless Matrixyl 3000 Serum

"The next is Timeless Matrixyl 3000. These are all water-based. They're all serums, you guys."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Tech21 reviews

NuFACE Trinity Facial Toning Device

"I love both of these devices. Again, you can comment the word microcurrent. It'll get you to Darnell's all-time favorite devices, and you'll see that they're both on here. Why? Because I have both of them and I use both of them. It just depends on what is the right one for you, right? So the heaviness of this versus a light thing that you can do kind of on the go, totally up to you. And I have no skin in the game. There's a link for both of them."

✓Yay

62%Guru Score

NIRA Pro Laser

"I have the Nira Pro, but it's not on my calendar [...] because I'm really backing away from heat centric products. [...] My husband started using it for a long time and it had great results for him, but then he saw that the fat around my eyes got dissolved from an IPL treatment I had in the office for dry eyes, and we both kind of backed away from intense heat products at home, because you do run the risk of it being worse than when you started."

~Mixed

69%Guru Score

Dr. Pen Microneedling Device

"If you can only buy two devices at home to biohack the skin, the ones that move the needle the most, one of them is a professional Dr. Pen micro needling device. [...] Those two devices can take the place of a lot of the other stuff you're buying."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

NuFACE Zip Halo Microcurrent Device

"This is the Zip Halo, a microcurrent device I use every single day. It creates microcurrent between the two knobs, increasing ATP production and energizing the skin for younger functioning skin. I hold it under the chin and along the jawline, staying away from the thyroid in the middle of the neck."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

iRestore Professional Hair Growth System

"But I'm telling you, this sucker works. It's a combination of lasers and red light."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

JOVS Blacken Pro DPL Photo Rejuvenation Skincare Device

"I love this device. It's light based, but it's still there's a cooling tip. You don't feel any heat. [...] If you're somebody that is really prone to melasma and hyperpigmentation, even though this is designed to treat that, and it has literally treated so much hyperpigmentation on my face and my arms."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Tripolar Radio Frequency Device

"There's another one I have as well. I didn't have it charged, and that was the Tripolar for radio frequency, and that one is also great. That's on the favorite products."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

MyoLift Mini Microcurrent Device

"With the MyoLift Mini, this is that two probe system. It's more mimics what is used in office because you can manipulate the skin a lot better. The efficiency, the efficacy, the ease of which you can do this is something that I think most people would be able to add into their daily routine."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

iRestore Laser Hair Growth Helmet

"I've been using iRestore. This is the professional device. [...] Red light therapy is [...] effective. [...] When you'll start seeing the results of red light therapy is about 30 days. [...] If you start doing red light therapy now, every single day in 30 days, you are going to see a giant difference in the health of your skin, smaller pores, more even skin tone, reduced texture, reduction of fine lines and wrinkles. It's stimulating collagen, plain and simple."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Omnilux Neck and Chest Mask

"Omnilux makes a neck attachment. I'm still using this [...] because number one, I don't suffer from melasma and it works. So yes, I am using this."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

CurrentBody LED Light Therapy Mask Series 1

"I use this all the time. [...] This is the CurrentBody and it is in my top, my top mask. It is FDA cleared."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

ZIIP Golden Gel

"This ZIIP gel is fabulous, but if you want to save money, you don't need to continue to buy the conductive gel from a company that sells you the device because they get you in there for the long haul and you're constantly having to replenish that gel."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

CurrentBody LED Neck and Décolletage Perfector

"I have their neck and décolletage attachment here, [...] I use this all the time. [...] This is the CurrentBody, it's in my top masks."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

LUMO Radio Frequency Device

"This is the Lumo, this has been by Eva skin, this has been my all-time radio frequency device that I love. This is using heat, so when you're talking about radio frequency, you're heating the dermis to a point of between 40 and 43 degrees Celsius. [...] If it's FDA cleared, it's going to be in that sweet spot. If it's saying that it is a radio frequency device and that it's for skin tightening, it's generally in that sweet spot of 40 to 43 degrees C."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

iRestore Elite Low-Level Laser Hair Regrowth System

"This is the iRestore Elite, which is their new one out on the market. You only have to wear it for 12 minutes. There's not another one out on the market like this. [...] This is the only one I have for hair because it is by far, I mean it's not even close, the best on the market. It's expensive but it's the best on the market."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Solo Wave Skin Care Wand with Red Light Therapy

"Gimmicky waste of money. Not a big enough space to really do red light therapy. [...] If you're moving around this little wand that has a red light, [...] the surface area that's being treated is super small. It's super small. So you're not getting the same treatment area that you would if you had a mask or if you used a red light therapy panel. [...] I was sent one of those. [...] When I started realizing this is not really microcurrent, it's not really working."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

NuFACE Mini Microcurrent Device

"If you've got the NuFACE Mini and the NuFACE Trio, those like I said are not my favorites, but if you already have them wait for those suckers to break before you go and get something different. [...] Don't waste your money if you've already have something in the modality."

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

NIRA Precision Laser

"My husband has been using the NIRA Precision Laser around his eyes and I've seen major improvements. My only problem with these lasers is you don't know how strong they are. When you're using multiple modalities at home like radio frequency, like microcurrent, like red light therapy, retinoids, chemical peels, when you're doing these at home you have to be very careful that you don't exhaust the skin."

✓Yay

56%Guru Score

Venus By Even Skin Device

"And the Venus um by even skin I might do these two things around my eyes"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Omnilux Face Contour Red Light Therapy Mask

"I used the Omnilux for years and was even a rep for them, but they combine their red and near infrared light, so if you suffer from melasma you need to be careful. It is also so thick and uncomfortable compared to the thin mask I use now."

✕Nay

79%Guru Score

JOVS 4D Laser Light Therapy Mask

"These results are clinically proven by SGS making this mask one of the most effective at-home treatments available today. It is six times stronger than LED masks. Instead of traditional LEDs, this mask uses laser diodes that focus light at a 20° angle penetrating deeper into the skin for better results. This mask has four different wavelengths for face mapping. Each part of the face has different needs and the mask addresses them precisely."

✓Yay

Notverified

Other17 reviews

The Ordinary Argireline Solution 10%

"This is the Ordinary Argireline Solution 10%. If you're somebody that doesn't get Botox, this is good for you, but also if you're somebody that does get Botox, this is good for you too, because it will shrink your pores a little bit when you use it on your face."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

OneSkin Facial Prep

"I love the OneSkin Facial Prep. I know it's expensive, but I still love it, it's great for a double wash."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

Renuvion Renuvion

"I had Renuvion done on my stomach, a subdermal radiofrequency treatment combined with cold helium gas that they insert under the skin through an incision and heat from the inside out. I still have a scar from being burned when I tried it. They are getting much better at it now, but I have seen and heard horror stories of people being burned from this treatment, so it is something to be very aware of."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

Prequel Scar Solutions Silicone Scar Stick

"The number one treatment of any scars is silicone. This is by Prequel. So this scar burned myself a long time ago and [...] I was using peptides to heal it. I still cover it with a scar stick. So any other scars or anything like that, use a scar stick. It really does speed up all of that."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Medicube Zero Pore Pad

"I got this as well. This is by Medicube Zero Pore Pad. Amazing."

✓Yay

54%Guru Score

VT Reedle Shot 100

"I do a double cleanse, the oil first and then the pH balance after that. I'm going to do a Reedle Shot. [...] This is a 100 Reedle Shot. This you could use daily and it creates those channels. So how I would use this is I double cleanse first, then I do the Reedle Shot and you press it into your skin. It's not like you just rub it everywhere. No, you press it into your skin."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Alastin Restorative Skin Complex

"The luxury version of that is Alastin. It's one of the ones behind the case at skin clinics, not held in retail. Alastin Restorative Skin Complex is about 210 bucks. It uses a TriEx technology to clear out old elastin and collagen and get new fibers. So basically it helps with senescent cells, like One Skin that I'm going to talk about. It clears out the old damaged collagen so that your body can make new ones."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

NeoFace NeoFace

"I had my other one for like 15 years, 10, 12 years and it then it finally broke. They sent me a new one. Um, and so I've been playing around with this and I really love it."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Dove Beauty Bar

"I'm not using any sort of fancy soap or anything like that. I'm just using a Dove bar soap and scrubbing my skin. That's how you get it to where your body and your skin is behaving the way that it did when it was younger. We had better circulation when it was younger. Our cell turnover was better when we were younger."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Softwave Softwave

"Softwave uses ultrasound. It only goes down a half a millimeter deep. Does not go to the level where you have fat. So there's zero risk of it damaging any cell membrane of fat and having you lose volume in your face. What I felt when I did Softwave, and I've done it twice, is it felt like my whole skin was energized. I don't know how else to explain that, but afterwards, I'd never felt anything like that before. It was like my whole face just felt energized. And I did notice a lift afterwards."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

True Niagen True Niagen

"This is the one that I normally take, True Niagen. I don't have any affiliation with it or anything, but this is NR and this increases NAD levels. Now, I don't take this every day. This isn't going to save your life. It's not going to make you live longer. If you are not having an active lifestyle, and I mean working your ass off in the gym five days a week, you don't need this. You don't need more energy in your cells if your lifestyle is not supporting that."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

70 Wellness MyoLift Mini

"This is by 70 Wellness. This is the MyoLift Mini. This more looks like and functions like some of the ones that are done in medi-spas. If you go in for a microcurrent facial, it's done with a two probe system. [...] This is a two probe system, not a two lobe system. And this gives you better control and really gives you a better kind of treatment because you can really manipulate these a lot better. So the pinch and hold technique is going to be very different than the press and hold technique."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

Latisse Latisse

"My eyelashes are quite long because I use Latisse every night, so my eyelash would actually hit the top of my eyelid and [...] I'd end up with like black spots everywhere."

✓Yay

61%Guru Score

Versed Dermaplane System

"This one is Versed, it literally just helps with non-toxic vegan cruelty free fragrance free. Made for aging skin, dullness, dryness. It's an at home exfoliation tool with in-office results that safely removes buildup of dead skin and peach fuzz, no batteries needed. Skin is left smooth, bright, and products penetrate better. That's one of the things that I found is once I get this, the fuzz off, the products penetrate better and the makeup goes on smoother."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

FOREO BEAR

"I've tried the Foreo Bear, the Zip, the new Face Medicube, myolift mini, and then a lot of ones that frankly are a waste of money. The Foreo Bear is a two probe system, whereas the Medicube is a two lobe system and the myolift mini is a two probe system."

✕Nay

61%Guru Score

iRestore Eye Restore Elite

"But it does help increase circulation. [...] Red light therapy increases circulation, and when we're looking at the structure of your hair, circulation is super important in giving oxygen to the area and supplying nutrients. So your biotin, your iron, all the things necessary for growing the hair is in your blood. Your circulation, this is all super important because that's how your hormones are getting there as well. [...] That's why red light therapy helps with hair."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

ZIIP Halo 2.0

"I love both of these devices. This one is heavier and it takes a little bit more to get it done, but this one travels better. So this is why I actually have two. I use both. It depends. That said, I didn't have those certifications right away. And so it might be we have to wait a little bit of time, but I don't know that there was anything done differently between the first version and the second version."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Retinoids17 reviews

Differin Adapalene Gel 0.1%

"The one that I love for sensitive skin is Differin Gel. This is great because it's a third generation retinoid, so it's [...] still going to exfoliate and do all of that, but it doesn't have the same irritation as a retinoid or retinol. It's super cheap, you can get it on Amazon, it's a great company, and it's very good."

✓Yay

94%Guru Score

Shani Darden Retinol Reform 1% Encapsulated Retinol

"I'm using the Shani Darden Retinol Reform, with one percent encapsulated retinol. By encapsulating the retinol you're not going to get all the [...] peeling and flaking. [...] It's not the only retinoid I use, but it's the one that's my favorite right now, so I use this every night."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Clinical 1% Retinol Treatment

"Paula's Choice makes a 1% retinol formulation, which I love."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

The Ordinary Granactive Retinoid 2% Emulsion

"The Ordinary Granactive Retinoid is a 2%, and it is another over the counter retinoid I really like for the neck."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

COSRX Retinol 0.5% Oil

"This is a good one too. COSRX Retinol 0.5%. It's a super vitamin E plus niacinamide. So it's moisturizing as it's a retinol. It's a great product. But that's retinol, so it's going to be a little bit more for not for sensitive skin."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Murad Retinal

"This is Murad, a retinol that's a little bit stronger than the over-the-counter ones I'd shown, one step closer to prescription strength. This is a great product as well."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

The Ordinary Granactive Retinoid 5% in Squalane

"If you use something like an over [...] the counter retinoid, like [...] The Ordinary retinoid in squalane, it gives you a little bit of moisture. [...] The squalane, which is for the moisture, the oil is giving it a little bit of a buffer."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

The Ordinary Retinol 1% in Squalane

"The Ordinary makes a 1% retinol in squalane, so it helps with moisture as well. You don't have to use prescription strength tretinoin that's going to eat up your whole face like battery acid. You [...] can start with something like an over-the-counter retinoid."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Olay Pro Advanced Retinol Complex Night Moisturizer

"I love Olay. It's not your grandma's Olay. Olay has been around for a long time. They have a really great retinoid. This is the Pro Advanced Retinol Complex. I got this at Costco but it's a great product."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Murad Retinol Resculpt Eye Treatment

"This is a retinal, which is a stronger retinoid because it's only one step away from prescription. [...] I've put so many people on this and their skin is ridiculous now, absolutely ridiculous. [...] Retinal with an Al is stronger than retinol because retinol has two different steps to get to prescription strength, whereas retinal is just one step away."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

RoC Retinol Correxion Max Hydration Cream

"RoC makes a RoC Retinol Correxion Max Hydration Cream, and I'll often times use that on my arms at night. RoC was the first company to stabilize tretinoin in a non-prescription form that was RoC you guys, that wasn't like some fancy skin care company that was RoC who did that. That's why we can buy the stuff over the counter."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Effaclar Adapalene Gel 0.1%

"My top picks for acne, like I said, was the Differin gel, and La Roche-Posay also makes an adapalene gel at 0.1%."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Olay Retinol 24 Max Night Moisturizer

"My top picks for retinol are [...] the Olay 24 Max. I love that product for first-time users. I mean it's not our grandma's Olay, you guys. [...] They know a lot about the science of skincare and it's often at the forefront because they're accessible and effective."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Altreno Tretinoin Lotion 0.05%

"It's called Altreno, A-L-T-R-E-N-O. It is a prescription strength tretinoin that is formulated with other types of ingredients that helps ease the irritation."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Olay Regenerist Retinol 24 + Peptide Night Moisturizer

"Listen, I know it's not like your grandmother's Olay. They've got great products, [...] and Olay's been doing this forever. Those are great starter retinoids that you can get at your local pharmacy or grocery store. The Olay Regenerist Retinol 24 + Peptide Night Moisturizer is an amazing product for first-time retinoid users, and it's moisturizing, so you don't have to put moisturizer over the top of it."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

ZO Skin Health Retinol Skin Brightener

"I love ZO Skin Health. I think that ZO Skin Health is the best, the best skin care on the market. It's super expensive, which is why I give other people other choices. ZO Skin Health is Dr. Obagi's line. He sold his first line, which was Obagi, so the science kind of stopped there. He went on and developed ZO Skin Health, which is to me very cutting-edge skin care."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Retin-A Tretinoin Cream 0.05%

"This is a prescription strength Retin-A, it's tretinoin, it's a 0.05 percent. If you put this on your eyes on this skin it's going to eat it up like battery acid. So if you're dealing with fine lines and wrinkles, a way that you can still use your prescription strength retinoid is that you can add a little bit of a barrier, so you could add like a nightly moisturizer. You would do your tretinoin around your face, avoid the eyes, put a moisturizer on it first. It gives a little bit of a barrier."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Sunscreen12 reviews

OneSkin OS-01 Face SPF 30

"There's another sunscreen I love, the OneSkin SPF 30 plus. It has the OS-01 peptide in it and [...] comes in different shades. I also like this, though it doesn't give quite the same glow as my Dear Dalia one."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

ILIA Super Serum Skin Tint SPF 40

"This is the Ilia Super Serum Skin Tint SPF 40. It has niacinamide in it, which [...] is great in evening out skin tone, lifting pigment up. So hyperpigmentation, sunspots, uneven skin tone, niacinamide is great for that. So this is an SPF 40 with niacinamide. I do like a tinted sunscreen that does double duty, and if I want a little heavier coverage, sometimes I'll use this."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

VT PDRN Aircloud Sunscreen SPF 50

"This is a PDRN SPF 50 by VT skin. It's a 50 plus with PDRN in it for elasticity and wrinkle care as you're protecting your skin. I got this in South Korea and I think it was under $5. [...] That's one of the sunscreens that I love."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Murad Multivitamin Clear Coat Broad Spectrum SPF 50 PA++++

"I really like this multivitamin clear because it's like almost feels like a treatment. It's a SPF 50 and it's like a gel. It's so nice. Murad has been around for a long time. I got my mother hooked on Murad years ago, and she used it up until she couldn't remember."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

OneSkin OS-01 Tinted Sunscreen SPF 50

"OneSkin makes an OS-01 that's a tinted sunscreen. It's not my favorite."

~Mixed

68%Guru Score

OneSkin OS-01 Body SPF

"This is by OneSkin. This is the OS-01 Body SPF. It's a broad spectrum 30 plus plus, and it's water resistant for 60 minutes. I love this because not only is it protecting my skin from the sun, but it has the same OS-01 peptide that the body lotion does. So it's helping with all the senescent cells. It's protecting from damage that's coming in, but it's also helping to erase the damage that's already there."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Anthelios UVMune 400 Invisible Fluid SPF 50+

"I love this. This is by La Roche-Posay. It's a tinted SPF 40. It has niacinamide, squalane, hyaluronic acid. So it's a treatment along with a sunscreen."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

ILIA C Beyond Triple Serum SPF 40

"In terms of a facial sunscreen that I feel is kind of multitasking, I like the ILIA C Beyond. So it has CA serum in it and it's an SPF of 40. It's very, very, very watery."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

CeraVe AM Facial Moisturizing Lotion SPF 30

"The CeraVe AM, I love this because it's a treatment as well. It's ultra lightweight, but it contains three essential ceramides, niacinamide, [...] and hyaluronic acid, so it is moisturizing and treatment. It has a factor of 30."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

EltaMD UV Clear Tinted SPF 46

"In terms of my facial sunscreen I love a tinted sunscreen. EltaMD makes a great tinted sunscreen. This is a broad-spectrum SPF 46. It's [...] very thin and tinted, and it has in it niacinamide, which is great for moisture, and hyaluronic acid, so it's a treatment and a sunscreen in one. I love that."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Olay Complete SPF 15 Moisturizer

"This is only a factor 15, but it has a great, great moisturizer in it. This is by Olay. I used this on my arms, and I feel like my skin on my arms has gotten so much better just from making sure I use it. It's right by my toothbrush, so I don't leave my bathroom without putting on at least a 15. [...] A 15 like this, I'll use just as a lotion throughout the day when I'm inside. If I go outside, I use more physical barriers."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Supergoop Zinc Screen 100% Mineral SPF 40

"I like this one by Supergoop. This is the zinc sunscreen, it's an SPF 40, and it's really easy to kind of pump on one of these kind of brushes and brush on the tops of your hands when you wash your hands."

✓Yay

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Moisturizers11 reviews

OneSkin OS-01 Face Topical Supplement

"Um, I love the new I I love the one skin oso1 peptide. That is something that I use throughout."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Anua 3 Ceramide Panthenol Moisture Barrier Cream

"Anua barrier cream is another good one. Absolutely. That's another great one."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Medicube AGE-R Capsule Cream

"A Medicube pink PDRN cream is not sterile and it is not medical grade. It's great for topical use, but it's not great to microneedle into the skin."

~Mixed

65%Guru Score

Aestura Atobarrier 365 Cream

"This is a barrier cream I got in South Korea after a PDRN facial where they analyzed my skin as dry. I use it on my neck whenever it is sensitive, after a chemical peel, or after microneedling, anything that has destroyed the skin barrier. It is like a cream version of an Aquaphor, it really seals everything in, and it is an overnight sensation unlike any barrier cream I've used before."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

Skin1004 Madagascar Centella Soothing Cream

"This is Skin1004's Madagascar Centella Soothing Cream. I've found that in times like post micro-needling, using this a little bit really helps calm the skin down. Really great, [...] and it's a good option as a moisturizer if your skin is feeling irritated from a retinoid."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

CeraVe Eye Repair Cream

"I like the CeraVe Eye Repair Balm, also called the CeraVe Eye Repair Cream. Love it. For moisture, this is great, it's a great product, and it's at a really good price point."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

ZIIP Electric Complex Gel

"The only exception I have found with that in terms of conductive gel is the one for ZIIP. This is the ZIIP Electric Complex. [...] I actually like to pat it into my skin and I feel that it is a nice conductive gel."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

CeraVe Moisturizing Cream

"I like CeraVe as well."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

CeraVe PM Facial Moisturizing Lotion

"I like the CeraVe PM. I also like using a moisturizer over the top of your retinoid."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Olay Micro-Sculpting Cream

"Olay Micro-Sculpting Cream, this stuff is like great. If you use a moisturizer over the top of your retinoid, I really like this one by Olay. Olay has been doing this a long time, and this helps to kind of lift and tighten the skin."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Topicals Faded Brightening & Clearing Gel

"Another type of product that I like is Faded by Topicals. [...] That's great for dark spots as well. [...] You can do a spot treatment with Faded, and then niacinamide works well with retinoids at night, which will also help to fade, and vitamin C in the morning will brighten the area."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Masks & Peels10 reviews

Medicube Collagen Night Wrapping Mask

"I love this [...] Collagen Night Wrapping Mask. A lot of these things you can get on Sephora, but you can also get on Olive Young."

✓Yay

61%Guru Score

The Ordinary AHA 30% + BHA 2% Peeling Solution

"The one that I like to use a lot for a chemical peel is The Ordinary. This is an AHA BHA combination, which I love. It's the one that's bright red, so [...] you look like a vampire when you put it on. I use it once a week as part of my skin care calendar."

✓Yay

58%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant T.L.C. Sukari Babyfacial

"This is another one that I really love, the Drunk Elephant T.L.C. Sukari Babyfacial. When I put this on my arms or my face or anything, I leave it on for 20 minutes, rinse it off, and it's like I literally have baby skin. I do that once a week [...] at night and [...] let the skin breathe afterward. It's magic when you're consistent with it."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Dr. Dennis Gross Alpha Beta Universal Daily Peel Pads

"I do have my Dr. Dennis Gross exfoliation pad. So if I have an event or something like that that I want to go to, or just even if I'm [...] a little bit dry and flaky, I do this in the morning. You do the first pad for like 3 minutes and then you neutralize it with the second pad. Your makeup, if you wear it, will go on so smooth."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

Paula's Choice 2% BHA Liquid Exfoliant

"This is a 2% BHA Liquid Exfoliant. It's great for acne. But again, when we're treating acne, we're treating aging. I know it's weird, but that's what it does. Why? Because it's a good kind of stress. I talk about this in the course as well. Good stress means anything that is irritating your body and causing a biological response. Whether it's a chemical peel, [...] a retinoid, or microneedling, it's causing a chemical response in your body that makes it better."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

SkinFix Resurface+ AHA BHA Renewing Cream

"This one by Skinfix, I think it's SkinFix Resurface+ AHA BHA resurfacing cream. Those are chemicals, right? Those are the chemical peels."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

iRestore Illumina Face Mask

"You want the biggest surface area. [...] When I do this, I'm looking for full coverage - how much can I cover? This has extended sides and extended backs. This is [...] 450 off only this month, below their Black Friday sales."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Sunday Riley Good Genes All-In-One AHA Lactic Acid Treatment

"This by Sunday Riley is a lactic acid, so when I use a chemical peel on my neck because my neck is super sensitive, I will do more of a mandelic acid, still an AHA, or a lactic acid, still an AHA. This is my favorite amongst all of the AHAs at home because you can use this once a week, which I do."

✓Yay

65%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Skin Perfecting 25% AHA + 2% BHA Exfoliating Peel

"Paula's Choice also makes a 25% AHA and a 2% BHA that is also really great."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Perfect Derma Peel Perfect Derma Peel

"I know that sounds crazy but like I'm I feel like every day I wake up I want to conquer going to the gym or at least going for a walk or whatever I am not g to let my age just that number I feel like is it's just really number kind of like the scale because again back like women going on the scale I don't even own a scale because I don't even care how much I weigh like I don't because it's a number it's all about my ink your jeans fit"

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Tools7 reviews

Dermaflash Dermaplaning Tool

"You won't get cut as much and [...] it will get all of that peach fuzz off. This is by Dermaflash. I don't know if you can see that, but there's a bunch of little baby hairs in there. I like this, too, because I've got blonde hair, these blonde fuzzy things all over my skin."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Nurse Jamie Uplift Facial Massage Roller

"This is the Nurse Jamie Uplift, which I've had for years and I love. I think I have it in black, I think I also have it in rose gold because it is a way to like get a little lymphatic drainage and depuff the area."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

SolaWave Red Light Wand

"It's too small of a head, it's not covering the surface. So when you're doing red light therapy, surface area that you're covering, whether it's one of these masks or the iRestore hat or the big panel, the surface area is important. And red light therapy in a thing that is this small, you're wasting your money. [...] I think it's great for lymphatic drainage because I believe that there's a vibration on it, [...] but don't think that you're going to get a good red light therapy from that."

✕Nay

72%Guru Score

Sephora Collection Dermaplaning Tool

"I'm gonna use the one from Sephora. I just got one at CVS too, but I'm gonna go with the Sephora one."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Solawave 4-in-1 Radiant Renewal Skincare Wand

"Then we get into like the solar stuff which I think is crap you guys should throw it away"

✕Nay

52%Guru Score

Dr. Pen M8s Microneedling Pen

"This is the Dr. Pen M8S, my favorite microneedling tool. There's nothing fancy about it, but it will last you a decade, my old one lasted over a decade and I still haven't thrown it out. It's under $300 and comes with sterile cartridges."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Dr. Pen M8 Microneedling Pen

"I use a Dr. Pen M8. I've been using this for a long time. It's got the sterile refill cartridges. [...] This device literally will change your skin. When you do this in office, you're spending $500 a pop at least for micro needling in office. That's without PRP, without doing anything special. Just going in there and doing a micro needling is about 500 bucks. The device itself is $2.99 on sale now for $1.99."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Eye Care6 reviews

Lumify Redness Reliever Eye Drops

"Lumify, because sometimes your eyes are just bloodshot when you're crying a lot or when you're traveling a lot. This I love this stuff."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Eye Serum

"This morning I used the Multi-Peptide Eye Serum by The Ordinary, which I love. It's multi, it treats multiple concerns."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

OneSkin OS-01 Eye Topical Supplement

"OneSkin also makes an eye cream which I like but my favorite of all time and it's expensive but man it's good."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

First Aid Beauty 5-in-1 Eye Cream

"If you want everything in one eye cream, [...] this is a five-in-one eye cream from First Aid Beauty. It smooths, brightens, evens skin tone, nourishes, and moisturizes, and it's safe for sensitive eyes. You put the [...] lighter, watery layers on first and [...] let your skin drink them in, then you add this heavier one. Don't smear it. Press it in, and you can use it on your eyelids too. It's a [...] bit more protective, so it seals in what's underneath."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

The Ordinary Caffeine Solution 5% + EGCG

"For eye bags, I love the Ordinary caffeine solution. It's great, it literally has 5% caffeine and it shrinks your eye bags pretty quickly. Really great."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

IT Cosmetics Bye Bye Under Eye Bags

"Bye Bye Under Eye Bags is a rapid bag reducer, de-puff type, tight and smooth again. You want to treat what you're actually suffering from."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Body & Tan5 reviews

OneSkin OS-01 Body Topical Supplement

"This is the OneSkin OS-01 peptide, [...] a body cream, and it plays really nicely with all the other peptides, so this is great to put on at night. I like to put this on first, morning and night, because it clears the way for the senescent cells so the other skincare I put on after has more chance to reach the healthy cells."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

CeraVe SA Cream for Rough and Bumpy Skin

"This is a very good product, everybody, for not a lot of money. An SA cream is [...] a salicylic acid cream. It's made for rough and bumpy skin. Imagine what it does for smooth skin, right? It's an exfoliant. So I'll use it on those places where I've got keratosis polaris or I've got like little imperfections."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Josie Maran Pink Algae Pro-Retinol Body Butter

"This is Pro-Retinol Body Butter. I'm going to show you guys a cheaper way to do this."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Retinol Skin Smoothing Body Treatment

"This is Paula's Choice, this is one of my favorite for the body. It's a skin smoothing retinol body treatment with antioxidants that diminishes appearance of uneven skin tone, helps provide firmer skin, hydrates and softens. Retinoids are the best ingredient because they hit all three different phases of hyperpigmentation: the production, the transfer to the skin, and then the treatment afterwards. [...] You can use this for the whole body."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Verso Firm Ground Retinol Body Lotion

"Verso Retinol Body Lotion has a squalane and aoba oil and it's moisturizing, so that's a really good one."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Cleansers4 reviews

Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm

"Clinique makes a Take the Day Off Balm, which I love, though I'm out of it right now. [...] It's a cleansing oil that gets everything, including waterproof mascara, to slide off your face as the first step of a double cleanse."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

CeraVe Hydrating Facial Cleanser

"CeraVe makes a Hydrating Facial Cleanser that I love as one of my go-to basics for washing in the morning."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

SkinFix Azelaic AHA BHA Cleanser

"With menopause there are so many different things that happen, so you'll hardly ever find anything in my body drawer [...] that's only moisturizing. What you will find is a lot of like this SkinFix Azelaic AHA BHA Cleanser."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

Cetaphil Gentle Skin Cleanser

"Don't waste your money on face wash, it literally washes off of your face. Just make sure your face is clean, you got everything off. Don't spend a lot of money. I like Cetaphil."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Haircare4 reviews

Nutrafol Hair Growth Supplement

"You know, Nutrafol is that hair vitamin. It did nothing for me. Zero. Why? Because my problem wasn't nutrition. My nutrition is spot on. So if you're taking Nutrafol and it's doing nothing, stop taking it. That's not your issue."

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer

"This is a Dyson like a I think it's called I know. It's beautiful, isn't it? Just so attractive. Um, my husband loves it. But it does, what it does is it helps for the hyaluronic acid to not um evaporate."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Nizoral A-D Anti-Dandruff Shampoo (1% Ketoconazole)

"It decreases dandruff, it actually reinforces the role of sebum and it disrupts some of the fungal growth, but the side effect is dry brittle hair. I would say my hair turned to straw and that broke my hair off and has had me start all over again. [...] I will never use it again because it broke my hair off. If you've got fine fragile dry hair in addition to hair loss, don't do it. Use more of a caffeine solution or [...] rosemary instead."

✕Nay

81%Guru Score

OneSkin OS-01 Hair Peptide Scalp Serum

"It's getting rid of those damaged, senescent cells, zombie cells, and it's making way for the good. I do [...] a droplet of this, and then this is an OS-01 peptide it's in the same thing as the best body lotion in the world. You can take a micro needling tool and roll it in, or you can stamp it. I tend to like to stamp because my hair is so fragile, I don't want to roll things over the top of it because what if it cuts my hair off. So that's how protective I am of my hair."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Toners4 reviews

Medicube Pink PDRN Soothing Toner

"This Sika line by Medicube is a really good product. It's soothing, anti-inflammatory, and it repairs the skin barrier. [...] It calms irritation, instantly cools down sensitivity and inflamed, breakout prone skin, and it's great for sensitive skin, [...] especially if you're using something irritating like a retinoid."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

First Aid Beauty Facial Radiance Pads

"This is First Aid Beauty's Facial Radiance niacinamide. I love it, it works well with a lot of different things. [...] You can layer it right over [...] vitamin C, and it also plays really nicely with retinoids, so you can use it both morning and night."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

The Ordinary Glycolic Acid 7% Toning Solution

"Put a little bit of like a glycolic acid toner [...] on a cotton pad, this is how you wash your face. Barely, right? Just a little bit. Don't rub hard because you don't want to move that fat around. [...] And you can use this on your whole body as well. Like sometimes I'll use it on your elbows, you know, various places."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Paula's Choice 2% Salicylic Acid Toner

"I have a really good toner. I want you to start getting toner by Paula's Choice. It really helps with pore size, too."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Balms & Ointments3 reviews

Eucerin Aquaphor Healing Balm

"Aquaphor is like a leading healing ointment. So that is the easiest way. I would always always always recommend that if you're doing microneedling for the first time. That is your post care. Hyaluronic acid which occurs naturally in your skin. Water just to freshen it up for a little bit. Cover the whole thing with Aquaphor. Don't wash it. Go to bed like that. That's the safest way."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Vaseline Original Healing Jelly

"There's nothing wrong with Vaseline, but if you're using it for hydration, there's better products out there."

~Mixed

85%Guru Score

Aquaphor Healing Ointment Advanced Therapy

"I always add a layer of Aquaphor and I will keep that layer on, and I mean thin, not a big goopy thing, a thin layer of Aquaphor. And when I keep that Aquaphor on, I don't rinse it off at night, I'll sleep with that on. Little layer of Aquaphor and the next day all those little holes, everything is like all closed up and good."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Blush & Bronzer3 reviews

Dear Dahlia Liquid Blush

"They also have like these blush the Liquid Blush that you can put on. I love that as well."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Coco and Eve Sunny Honey Bali Bronzing Foam

"Coco and Eve bronzing foam, sometimes it's like some of them stink. I'm not going to lie, like if you ever put on a bronzing stuff and then it just makes something reacts in my body to where it makes my body not smell great. And what about the bed sheets? That's one of the great things about these Express ones is I would never go to sleep with this on because your sheets will be, I want to say brown but it's not, it's almost like they come out like a reddish color."

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

Omnilux Contour Glove

"This is one of the red light therapy top picks by the same company Omnilux that does my favorite mask. [...] I don't think it's much cheaper, it's an expensive product but it really does help. I usually have this downstairs by my television and I will watch TV and then I have to cover this with a blanket because it lets off a little too much light at night [...] when you're watching TV."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Eye Makeup2 reviews

L'Oreal Voluminous Mascara

"I use the cheapest mascara. I kid you not. It's I've been using it forever. I tried to go to like a tubular mascara. It doesn't work. This is a volumous. This is by L'Oreal."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Wiz

"This is Brow Wiz soft Brown. [...] I like to go underneath the eyebrow a little bit because as we get older when [...] our eyebrows thin they tend to get thin from the bottom, so you want to bring your eyebrow down towards your eye. It gives you a little bit more youthful look. If you look at how your eyebrows looked when you were 13, 14, 15 years old they weren't these high arched brows. You see the difference, it just kind of anchors the face a tiny bit."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

Lip2 reviews

Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil

"I love these pencils. [...] They're the Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil, and you can get them in all different colors. What I have on my lips right now is this one. They're just multi-purpose -- you can use them for your eyes, [...] your lips, for everything."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

OneSkin OS-01 Lip Sleep Mask

"This is an OS-01 peptide for your lips. It helps to get rid of zombie cells on your lips, dry, flaky lips. Like, this is a game changer. Sometimes I'll even microneedle this a little bit into the lip line. [...] And then [...] I like this just because it keeps them super hydrated."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Powder & Setting2 reviews

Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder

"Rarely do I use powder, but if I do, I like this by Laura Mercier."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Sun Powder Sun Powder

"This is a game changer for anybody who suffers from sunspots, hyperpigmentation. I put a scoop of that inside a big water bottle and I drink this daily. It has Aztec in it."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Concealer1 review

Huda Beauty Faux Filter Matte Buildable Coverage Waterproof Concealer

"It's by Huda Beauty and it's a Faux Filter concealer. [...] I would use it where you've got dark spots, so the corners. I do a little dot, little dot on each side of my face. [...] Then I take one of these little sponges, rub it in first, dot it in first. And then I'll wet this just to brighten a little bit the corner of the eye. I [...] use that a little bit just for that."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Fragrance1 review

All Free and Clear Laundry Detergent

"This is All Free and Clear because it's 100% free of perfumes and dyes. I know it's great to have your clothes smell like an ocean breeze, how about just being clean? Your body, your clothes do not need all the perfumes and dyes. [...] When you're looking at stuff in terms of detoxifying your home, heavy scents like that in [...] detergents make a big difference. That's super important."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Mists & Essences1 review

COSRX Advanced Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence

"This is that snail mucin. I know it sounds gross, but it's really not. Helps with the skin barrier, but also helping to retain moisture in the skin. So if I'm dried and kind of peeling post microneedling, yep, I'm layering this. Not immediately, obviously, because we don't want to run the risk of those foreign body granulomas when you add skincare with freshly microneedled skin."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

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