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Fact or Fiction: Sun exposure is good for acne.

Sun exposure is something everyone needs to stay healthy. Soaking in the warm sun is a relaxing way to enjoy a vacation, but how much sun is too much? With...

Fact or Fiction: Bar Soap Ages the Skin

Bar soap is often summarily judged and misunderstood as the villain that hijacks skin's natural moisture factor, leading to signs of aging. However, many bar soaps have undergone a metamorphosis...

Fact or Fiction: Lemon Lightens the Skin.

Fresh lemon juice has been known for decades as a household remedy for lightening the skin. Many clients may be wondering, however, if it truly works. The basic answer is...

Fact or Fiction: Products that contain parabens should be avoided.

The use of paraben preservatives, such as alkyl esters and p-hydroxybenzoic acids, goes back over decades to when they were first introduced in the 1920s.1 Nowadays, synthetic parabens are found...

Fact or Fiction: Skin damage caused by HEV light may be as harmful as the damage caused by UVA and UVB light combined.

High energy visible (HEV) light is high-frequency and high-energy light ranging from approximately 380 to 500 nanometers in the blue band of the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum and...