Scientific approach: 8 chemists and skin care enthusiasts instagrams
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Today, the main trends in the cosmetic world They call transparency and a scientific approach: brands replace promising inscriptions with descriptions of active ingredients, and decent bloggers meticulously understand how products work. We offer a look at the eight instagram accounts of cosmetic chemists and enthusiasts of the scientific approach - you can learn something new from them every day simply by flipping through the tape.
Lab Muffin Beauty Science
Michelle is a Ph.D. in chemistry, who created a blog several years ago, finding that resources with clear explanations of cosmetic chemistry and beauty myths on the Internet are still not enough. Since then, Michelle has earned a reputation as an expert - here's The Klog polls her about known misconceptions.
The scientist fills all the resources with intelligible content: we advise you to pay attention to the slowly growing, but quality YouTube channel. And her instagram has long ceased to be just a channel of advancement: almost every day she puts out short reviews on products and tips on skin care. Not forgetting to remind you that the pores are not closed or opened, and the golden measure of a quarter-spoonful of Sanskrin does not necessarily suffice for your whole face.
Chemist confessions
A blog based solely on instagram and has already gathered delight among beauty geek in the USA. Gloria and Victoria, creators of the Chemist Confessions, are girls with a rich background in science who decide that they will be much more interested in beauty. As a result, they did not lose, and we got a blog with a truly original approach.
You are unlikely to find in it familiar care posts and tips for every day: chemists are engaged in full-fledged “decoding” of cosmetics, trying to honestly figure out whether the sensational product is worth their money, and to understand what pretty banks are really capable of if they look at them formulations. In general, they bribe both the non-engagement of girls, and accessible language, and the pleasant design of the tape.
Skinminimalist
Marcia's Instagram is mainly focused on banks - but it stands out among thousands of similar ones. The creator of the blog is now over thirty, she has a combination skin that is prone to acne, and the tasks before her are truly non-trivial. The most interesting posts are devoted to high-performance products - Marcia loves and knows how to use them, explains in an accessible way who will benefit from banks with complex compositions, and is not embarrassed to compare products of different brands. There are also plenty of posts dedicated to cleansing, moisturizing and other standard caregivers.
Kind of Stephen
Stephen Alan is a cosmetic chemist from Toronto who created a very detailed skin care blog. Steven talks about basic things (recently, for example, about sun protection), but so exhaustively that his posts will satisfy even the most meticulous and inquisitive. A separate plus of his approach is that almost every material is accompanied by graphs and links to recent studies: you can be sure that his stories are in line with scientific reality and the modern approach to cosmetics.
In the chemist's instagram one can find not only all the same graphs and tables, but also photos of vitamin C and niacinamide crystals under the microscope, posts on popular ingredients and instructions on how to avoid getting lost in tricky cosmetic marketing.
The klog
Another blog of the creator of Soko Glam, which needs no introduction, is the most convenient English-language resource dedicated to Korean cosmetics and secrets of care. Charlotte Cho is also enthusiastic about the principle of transparency, and in The Klog you can find not only stories about banks that are popular among fans of Korean care right now, but also news about fashionable ingredients, analyzes of popular (often erroneous) statements, understandable tables that will help pick the right type of care, and answers to readers' questions. If snail slime still raises legitimate questions, The Klog will definitely help you figure it out.
Beauty by the geeks
Alas, sunk into oblivion, but worthy of mention blog - a site with reviews of Beauty By The Geeks, originally focused on a scientific approach to the assessment of cosmetics and education in the field of cosmetic chemistry. The resource was founded by Bridget West, a specialist in biomedical sciences, who, after an unsuccessful hair dyeing, tried a ton of cosmetics and finally came up with the idea to test the compositions in detail.
It is pleasant to read reviews of popular products even now, when it is difficult to surprise a consumer with scientific language - there is a rich nostalgic heritage left from a startup with posts that examine the capabilities of all the active ingredients of a single can.
Beautiful With Brains
The small but well-organized blog of the enthusiast Gio, in which you can find comfortable sections with posts for skin types, has an instagram analog. The girl publishes in it short and capacious posts, conveniently embedded in the tape. It's nice that its resources are focused not only on banks: there are plenty of reviews here, but they are regularly diluted with tips and skeptical records that remind you that collagen from ordinary cream is not capable of working wonders, and the strips for removing black dots are more enemies than friends.
Skinperspective
Italian Analiza lives and works in the USA, and she also has an interesting scientific background: she is an engineer who once became interested in cosmetics and a scientific view of her. Instagram girls are not replete with selfies, and the pictures here are not needed as beautiful illustrations - the most interesting thing is what she writes under them.
New posts appear almost daily, they are always different and detailed: you can see an analysis of an interesting product, a short story about hyperpigmentation, and whole sheets of what rosacea is. In the reviews of cans, there is practically no exceptionally laudatory speeches — the girl often reports the shortcomings of even the products she likes.