How to Read a Label
Method pieces: how to read what is printed on a product, and what it cannot tell you.
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Is La Mer Worth It? We Read All Three Ingredient Lists
Ask whether Crème de la Mer is worth it and you will get the same answer everywhere, usually from someone who has read the ingredient list badly or not at all. It is just mineral oil. It is seaweed and marketing. Nothing…
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The C E Ferulic Patent Expired. Here Is What a Dupe Has to Match
The patent behind C E Ferulic expired on 24 March 2025. A steady run of articles has since explained that the dupes are finally legal, listed five bottles and moved on. Almost none says what the patent actually required. That is a…
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What an Ingredient List Actually Tells You About Concentration
Sooner or later every skincare argument arrives at the same sentence: the cheap one and the expensive one have basically the same ingredients. Sometimes they do. Almost nobody who says it has done the one check that would settle it, though, and…