PSA: Ingredient Lists & Retinol

PSA6So…you know that feeling you get when you can’t remember the name of that one song by that one artist whose name you also can’t remember?  Or the feeling you get when you’re about to saying something, and when it’s at the tip of your tongue, it seems to vanish from thought?  It’s like a mental itch that you can’t scratch, and it drives me (and you?) C r A z Y.

A few months back, I encountered some of these mental itches in the Korean skincare world.

  1.  the difference between the order of Korean ingredient lists and U.S. ingredient lists
  2.  the lack of retinol in Korean skincare products

These two questions have been sitting in the back of my mind, slowly festering, and eventually drove me to my wit’s end.  For the sake of my sanity, I decided to reach out and ask a Korean cosmetic company for the answers to the questions that have been driving me mad.  And I am happy to say that I now have peace of mind.

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