Topicals with evidence, the actives that don't have it, peels, lasers for skin, and the conditions that resist all of it.
Horizontal neck lines are mostly creases you were born with, deepened by age and sun. Here is what the evidence supports for softening horizontal neck lines.
Crepey skin evidence ladder: what thins skin, what topical retinoids and body serums change, hyperdiluted Radiesse, RF microneedling, and the claims that do not hold up.
Sleep wrinkles explained: how compression lines differ from expression wrinkles, what the one controlled study found, and whether silk, copper, or back sleeping is worth…
The one face-yoga RCT improved cheek fullness and estimated age in 16 completers - but fold, marionette, and lip endpoints did not move. Muscle-tone data, dropout, and…
Most acne pages ignore the trunk. The drugs with real back-specific trial data, trunk dosing from the Aklief label, the fungal-acne mimic, skin-of-color PIH risk, and…
One comparative RCT with no untreated control, roller physiology data, and the claims with no human evidence at all. Bruising, PIH risk in darker skin, and better…
An intralesional cortisone shot can flatten an acne cyst within days, but the entire published evidence base is one 1983 trial of 17 patients, and dose drives the dent…
Frequent straightener users had 2.55 times the uterine cancer rate in the Sister Study. Here is what that means in absolute terms, and why FDA still has not banned…
Hooded eyes have three different causes with three different fixes, and only one of them responds to the FDA-approved eye drop. How to tell them apart, and when a droopy…
Beard minoxidil is off-label with narrow evidence: two placebo-controlled RCTs in trans men, a cisgender 3% trial, and a twin study. Real effect sizes, timeline, and…