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Skin & Grooming

Where the correct answer is usually cheap and boring. Sunscreen, ceramides, retinoids, and the shave hardware that stops costing money after you buy it.

Our lens: Actives, concentrations, and what a product is for.

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Skin & Grooming

Retinoids: The One Skincare Active With Real Evidence

Decades of human trials for texture and fine lines. Also the active most likely to make you quit in week two, for reasons that are avoidable.

Skin & Grooming

What a Moisturizer Is Actually Doing

Three mechanisms, three types of ingredient, and why the $12 tub is usually as good as the $90 one.

Skin & Grooming

Safety Razor vs Cartridge: The Actual Trade-Off

One blade costs cents, five blades cost dollars, and the reason multi-blade cartridges exist has more to do with patents than with your face.

Skin & Grooming

Sunscreen: The Three Things That Matter and the Rest You Can Ignore

SPF above 50 is nearly a rounding error. The number that actually predicts whether sunscreen works for you is how likely you are to put it on again tomorrow.