Beauty
Beauty
Serum Hour: Vitamin C Serums and a Quiet Skincare Routine
A serum hour is the skincare routine as a ritual, built on vitamin C serums and a sunscreen serum.
Eucerin, From a Hamburg Pharmacy Patent to a Dark Spot Routine
Eucerin began in 1900 with a chemist's patent for an emulsifier, and its Radiant Tone line is where that lab-first mindset meets dark spots. Here are the Eucerin creams and serums, brightening serums from other makers, and the bars and body care that keep a brightening routine going below the neck.
Glowy Skin Prep and Body Care Routine Essentials
A polished beauty story around skin prep, body care, and the routines shoppers are revisiting.
Beauty Routine Builders: Skincare Formulas, Tools and Refills
A discovery edit for the formulas, tools, and replenishment moments driving shopper interest.
4-Step Skincare Routine for Glowing Skin
Cleanse, treat, hydrate, protect — the only routine you need
GuruNanda Whitening Strips and the Yoga Studio Behind Them
GuruNanda whitening strips are the number one seller, according to its founder, from a brand that began with a family manufacturing business and a yoga studio. This edit covers the strips and oil pulling range, whitening strips from other names, and the toothpastes and serums I would pair with them.
Healthy Girl Edit: Collagen, Vitamins, Greens and Electrolytes
The healthy girl edit stocks daily vitamins, collagen, greens, electrolytes and glow supplements.
Glow Skincare Routine: Serums, Creams and Oils
Prestige skincare, bottled radiance
Glass Skin Routine: Korean Skincare Steps From Cleanse to Essence
A glass skin routine starts with a double cleanse and moves through Korean skincare steps to an essence.
Korres, the Greek Pharmacy Brand That Began With a Syrup
Korres origin story: a pharmacist in Athens made a herbal syrup in 1996, and the brand grew into face care, body care and fragrance. I start with the Greek yoghurt face care and end with one jar to try first.
Phoebe Gates Skincare Edit: A Simple Layered Routine
The Phoebe Gates skincare edit keeps layering simple: 39 cleansers, serums and SPF from Supergoop!, Allies of Skin and Sunday Riley.
Aquaphor Was a Pharmacist's Secret Long Before It Was Ours
Aquaphor started life in 1925 as an ointment for doctors and pharmacists, and it still does one plain job: it helps keep moisture in. Here is the original jar and its lip and body spinoffs, the richer face balms that follow the same idea, and the lip treatments I rotate through winter.
Hair Wellness: Scalp First, Then Everything Else
Hair wellness starts with the scalp: 40 shampoos, masks and treatments from Rahua, Roz Hair, OUAI and Oribe.
Shower Shelf Picks: Body Oils and Shower Essentials
The shower shelf, edited: 40 body care and shower picks from Salt & Stone, Moroccanoil and Oak Essentials, $17 to $54.
Diptyque: The Paris Shop Behind the Candles and Perfumes
Diptyque opened in Paris in 1961 as a shop for fabric and travel finds, then made its first three candles in 1963 and its first eau de toilette in 1968. A guide to the classic candles, from Baies and Figuier to Feu de Bois and Santal, plus how to choose between a candle, a diffuser and a scent for skin.
A Skincare Routine You Will Actually Keep
A skincare routine you will actually keep is a short sequence that cleanses and moisturizes. Shop 15 picks from Chanel, Caudalie and Estée Lauder.
A Morning Skincare Routine In Four Steps
A morning skincare routine should cleanse, balance and moisturize in four steps. Shop 16 picks from Clinique, Shiseido and Kiehl's.
Skincare Routines: Barrier, Actives and Minimalist Picks
Skincare turned into an ideology with factions: barrier, actives and minimalists. Shop 240 creams and serums from Shiseido, SK-II and Clinique.
The Cozy Night In Beauty Edit
A cozy night in beauty routine is really an excuse to let a treatment take the time it usually does not get. For years the fix for a busy week was a fast three-minute routine before bed, which never let anything actually work. This edit slows that down, from a lingering shower to a rich face cream, a hair treatment and a candle that sets the mood before any of it starts.
Camille Rose Started at a Kitchen Counter and Named for a Grandmother
Camille Rose began in 2011 when Janell Stephens turned her kitchen remedies into a hair-care brand, and it still feels like homemade care with a proper formula. Here are the leave-ins, butters and gels for styling, the wash-day pair, and the silk and satin that protect it at night.
A Nurse, a Kitchen Table and Mielle Shampoo: How One Founder Built a Hair Empire
Mielle shampoo comes from a brand that Monique Rodriguez launched in 2014 as a registered nurse with a kitchen vision. Here are the four Mielle bottles I would look at first, the rosemary and scalp-care washes from other brands, and the oils and serums that follow.
Sunday Self Care Routine: Skin, Hair and Wellness Steps
A Sunday reset works best as an edit, not a checklist, choosing the two or three steps that actually change how Monday feels instead of running through every category once. The trap is treating a free afternoon as permission to try everything at once, which just leaves you with a longer routine and no clearer sense of what helped. This edit moves from the shower to hair, body and face, then to an overnight step, with the instruction to pick one or two from each group rather than all of it.
La Roche-Posay: A Spring, a Pharmacist and the Calm Shelf I Keep Returning To
La Roche-Posay grew out of a French thermal spring town and a pharmacist with a plan, and its plain, low-drama formulas still suit reactive skin. This edit covers the brand's cleansers, moisturizer and serums, then gentle washes from other labels and a set of barrier moisturizers to follow.
eos Lotion Started With a Lip Balm Egg and Ended Up on Every Bathroom Shelf
The eos lotion range is the sweet-smelling side of a brand that most people first met as a round lip balm. Here are the eos lotion scents I would start with, other scented lotions and creams to compare them with, and the butters and oils for when you want more.