I?ve got dry skin. And I don?t say this to you as if I?m casually remarking on the weather or the spinach salad I?m getting for lunch. I?m saying this in a way that only someone with truly dry, sensitive, angry skin can say it, in the most hopelessly resigned of ways, because my skin quite truly hates me. Like, if my skin were a person, it would be the unruly pre-teen on Jerry Springer, cursing out its mother (me) who?s sitting in the corner crying. And I genuinely thought I would be resigned to ruddy-faced dryness for the rest of my life, until I stumbled upon a moisturizer that truly changed my entire face: SkinCeuticals Triple Lipid Restore 2:4:2.
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Photo: SkinCeuticals And by stumbled upon, I mean a dermatologist friend, Mona Gohara, Yale School of Medicine?s coolest doctor, told me to try it, after I sent her yet another complain-y email, ranting about the bumpy keratosis pilaris on my cheeks?which most humans only have on the backs of their arms; lucky me!?the constant dryness and itchiness on my face, and my skin?s affinity for breaking out from any of the thick-ass creams I do slather onto my sin.
Get yourself some of this Triple Lipid moisturizer, said Gohara, probably sighing as she responded to my email, explaining how it would change my life, more or less, thanks to the fact that it?s filled with all of the insanely effective ingredients that quite literally heal your skin barrier. ?In a biologi...