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K-Beauty Hack: Sheet Masks for the Win!  Learn how sheet masks deliver intense hydration, unveil the K-Beauty connection, and discover how to customize your own masks for glowing skin on a budget.  Explore the magic of sheet masks and pamper your skin!

Gua sha, aka Karokan, is a traditional Chinese medicine practice in which a shaped stone is used to scrape the skin to form a lite petechiae. Practitioners believe gua sha releases unhealthy elements from injured areas and stimulates blood flow and healing. Let's demystify Gua Sha and see how it can benefit you.

Facial oils promote a healthy glow and this is even more important for mature and dry skin. As we've learned already, aging is responsible for less natural oil production and that all on its own can exacerbate the look of fine lines. Antioxidants in Facial Oils boost collagen production and increase skin's elasticity, too.

Natural Elixirs and Natural Moisturizers are formulated to address and repair damage (aka prevent fine lines and wrinkles), provide additional hydration, and to do some deep healing overnight - to help you with that ageless look.

Humectant products are designed to hydrate at a cellular level, and they're anything but basic. A great payload of nourishment can accompany the hydration and that can be a good thing when that nourishment is organic and natural. Beware of sending a big slurry of synthetics into the deeper levels of your skin...

Toners and astringents can be confusing. They do mostly the same thing: serve as a final cleansing step, reduce the appearance of pore size, and reduce redness. The biggest difference between toners and astringents is subtle. Toners hydrate, nourish, and balance pH levels while astringents also serve to remove skin oil.

Milia are small dome shaped bumps of keratin. They can occur in all ethnicities, genders, and ages of people. The majority of the time they are not painful, though they can make up for that in annoyance factor. Sometimes friction from rough clothing or bedding can cause them to appear red and irritated.

Because oil is created by the skin, an entire industry has risen blaming any and all skin oil for every malady of the skin - especially acne. However in most cases there is a lifestyle component. For Example: Acne is not the result of oily skin. Most times it is a hormonal condition driven by androgen combining with surface bacteria and fatty acids that are naturally occurring that create pimples and blemishes. This is why most acne cases are typically a condition of teens, in women about a week before menstruation, and person's under stressful situations.