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The Sunscreen Scandal and Why We’ve Always Made Our Skincare
The recent sunscreen debacle has shaken trust in the skincare world. But it’s also shone a spotlight on something many don’t realise about the skincare industry. Here’s the reality:
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Spring-clean your skincare!
Spring has finally arrived, and there's no better time than now to give your skincare routine a refreshing overhaul. Here are our top tips for revamping your skincare regimen this spring
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Soothing Sensitive Skin in Hot Weather
When the temperature rises, it can be tough for people with sensitive skin. Hot weather tends to cause more redness, dryness, and discomfort for our skin. The heat, humidity, and too much sun exposure can really irritate skin that's already sensitive.
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Avoid these 4 ingredients in a facial wash
The skin on your face is the thinnest skin on your body. In fact, the thinnest skin you have, which is around your eyes, is 80 times thinner than the thickest on your body (can you guess where that is? hint: you stand on it).
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Read Those Ingredients Lists!
Have you ever looked at an ingredient list and wondered what actually goes into the skincare you’re buying? Learning to decipher ingredients can tell you exactly what goes into your skincare. Instead of relying on what a brand tells you, a quick read will reveal whether your money’s actually going into the ingredients or the marketing!
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Natural Ingredients to Watch Out For
At Four Cow Farm, we think a lot about every ingredient that goes into the products we craft, from the water we use (all collected at the farm and filtered and processed right here) to the oils we use (all extra virgin cold-pressed and of the highest food grade quality) to the preservatives we use (always food grade, always in the lowest possible amounts).
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One Simple Tip To Check Whether Your Skincare Is Truly Natural
‘Natural’ is the buzzword when it comes to skincare (and food and laundry detergents and pretty much most things these days!) but if you’re not a chemist, how in the world do you decipher product labels to find out whether what’s going into that product is really natural?
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The ONE Oil You Need to Avoid
There’s one oil that you’ll find in many products that we strongly believe is an absolute no-no in skincare: that oil is Mineral Oil. Despite its innocuous name, mineral oil is actually a form of petroleum (yes, the stuff that goes into your car) and is a by-product of the distillation of crude oil into petrol/gasoline.
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Is that skincare natural? Try our 4 step test..
There are so many natural skincare products out there, and they all sound amazing, but how do you tell if the skincare you’re buying is really as natural as it claims? Here are four simple checks you can make to ensure you’re really buying natural...
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