Live Ingredient List Analysis: Laneige’s Water Bank Gentle Gel Cleanser
What a neat, thoughtfully formulated product!
Live Ingredient List Analysis: Laneige’s Cream Skin Toner & Moisturizer
Ooooh, this was a fun one! A super fluid, self-preserving formulation that feels quite at-home doable, even if we do have to make some swaps.
Live Ingredient List Analysis: Elizabeth Arden’s PREVAGE® Anti-Aging Daily Serum 2.0
Well, this one was an absolute doozy 😅 If Netflix decides to make an 8-part docu-series into how this formulation got so complicated, I’ll host a viewing party so we can all eat popcorn and find out how they settled on using so many different emulsifiers & gelling ingredients 🍿
CleverCurl’s Curl Wonderfoam
A very DIY-able sort of product, if not quite a dupe due to the limited availability of the star hold ingredient.
Benefit Cosmetics’ Erase Paste
It was really fun to dig into a colour cosmetic + consider how concealer formulations have evolved since this one was released in 2008 (thanks to Ana for finding this article mentioning the launch date!) 😄
Super Fresh Body Powder Lotion
Our first “lotion to powder” product; how does it do that? We dig into the ingredient list to find out!
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