Commercial Poem Ferments

That's actually the Clear Facial Treatment Lotion - serves the same purpose for me! (Slightly Clickbaity) Headline At any point in the last year, I would have told you a First Treatment Essence of some kind was essential for me. Now I'm not so sure. About my skin  I usually stick to more affordable products and use a lot of different products to address features like signs of aging, larger pores and CCs, redness and dull skin. I'm going to call these things I'm addressing "features" rather than "concerns", which is just a personal preference. My skin doesn't need fixing, I just tailor my routine to address certain aspects of it. This may seem a pedantic choice of words but language matters! I'm 40 with combination skin, prone to CCs but not acne (unless I've used a product that disagrees with me) and my skin is perpetually dehydrated because of the actives I use. My neck is dry, dry as a desert, and very sensitive, so I use an entirely d...

On the blog title My Reddit username & "fermenting": because I love anything skincare that is fermented but also I like to "incite or stir up trouble or disorder" (thanks dictionary!) - you'll see why below! Note: if you read this and it all seems like too much work but you're interested in the products I'm reviewing, worry not. For the product reviews, I'll be pushing the stuff like this to the end of the review so you can just read about my experience with the product if that's more your thing. You might think all this feminism business has no place in a skincare review and that's totally fine. But it's my blog and I'm gonna write it my way :) Intro to the Intro I decided to write this blog because I love reading blogs and apparently the golden age of blogs is over. What better thing can there be than to contribute to a dying medium?!  In all seriousness, this is mostly about w...