Imaxtree
Skin care has a long and complicated obsession with questionable?but natural?antiaging techniques. Around this time last year, I remember feeling physically sick after hearing that Kim Kardashian and Victoria Beckham both fork out $500 to have actual animal placenta?gag?smeared on their faces in the name of beauty. Then there are vampire facials, where a subject’s own blood is drawn and then sloshed all over their face; and another natural beauty trend I’m giving a hard pass: snail facials. And we haven’t even started on semen skin care yet.
Call me old-fashioned, but I’ve always given a wide berth to obscenely priced skin treatments that use actual bodily fluids?I guess I’m more of a retinol and AHAs kind of girl and less about rubbing placenta in my pores?but I’ve recently introduced an ingredient into my regime that’s almost as gross as Kim K’s preferred treatment: colostrum. To the blissfully unfamiliar, that’s the first breast milk produced by pregnant mothers when they give birth. Don’t look at me like that. I first heard about bovine colostrum serums (yep, breast milk from a cow) a few weeks ago while visiting the shared office of my holistic facialist and herbalist, my two go-to experts for anything alternative-medicine-related. I have blemish-prone skin and am concerned with preventing aging, so was recommended Environ Skincare’s B-Active offering of natural products for p...