Unboxing posts are popular in the blogging world, but today's contents are a little different than what normally gets delivered to my door.
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Kimwipes and buffer solutions and nitrile gloves oh my! |
On the 12th day of Christmas, my mailman gave to me: A gallon of distilled water, 280 Kimwipes, 100 nitrile glooooooooooooves, 4 buffering solutions, 100 pH strips, one digital pH meter, and a partridge in a pear tree.
(Technically, the water was courtesy of my long-suffering and non-judgemental spouse, but you get the idea. Also, no bird in a fruit tree; I'd have nowhere to put it.)
In This Post:
- My pH kit haul
- Prepping my gadgets
- Test results
- Lots of science blather about Vitamin C, BHA, and AHA
- Whether it's worth going to all this effort
- What's worth buying & where to get it
Over the last year, my interest in beauty products has shifted; I am as enamoured of Asian beauty products as ever, but now I'm highly curious about the
science of skincare.
If you've been following my blog, you may have noticed that I have started looking deeper into the ingredients of my products, especially those that are considered 'actives' and therefore expected to have reliable results, and doing a lot of research on the science of skin and skincare, such as my
Skincare Discovery: Why the pH of Your Cleanser Matters post, where I get granular about
why pH is so integral to the health of your skin.