Face Skin Care Archives – Modern Vintage Ville

How Acne and Pimples are Formed

Let’s first see how this annoying acne develop. Acne is actually a disorder that happens in pilosebaceous unit. Pilosebaceous unit consists of a hair follicle, a hair and sebaceous gland (gland that produces sebum – skin oil, that prevents skin from...Read More

What is Retinol and Why it is important to add it to your skin care

4 Unique Uses of Retinol Retinol has been on a market for a long time. It was first approved by FDA as an acne treatment in 1971 (wikipedia). Since then many researches clearly showed that retinoid has numerous astounding benefits...Read More

Carrot Extract and Carrot Serum for Glowing Skin

No doubt carrots have many benefits for our skin, hair and health. Carrots are loaded with vitamin A and C that boost your immune system, improve eye health and remove free radicals from your body. Carrots are also becoming a...Read More

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Best Skin Care Ingredients To Use During Cold Weather

With freezing temperatures approaching, I started lining up skin care creams and moisturizers for winter. Creams and moisturizers for freezing weather should be different from hot weather ones. You should not be using hydrating products when going outside in extremely...Read More

5 Step Korean Skin Care Routine

Everyone wants stunning healthy skin. And this is a very fair wish that is not that hard to achieve. Beautiful glowing skin needs daily care and routine. Many people get overwhelmed when they come across "busy girl" 10 step skin...Read More

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ABIB Gummy Sheet Mask Milk Sticker – Review

Sheet masks are an amazing addition to your skin care routine. They are easy to use, usually loaded with amazing ingredients that will moisturize, nourish, hydrate and brighten your skin. Sheet masks often have anti-aging, lifting and revitalizing properties as...Read More

8 Gentle Homemade Lip Scrubs

In this article we are going to explore recipes for gentle homemade lip scrubs. Our lips need exfoliation. During exfoliation we remove top dead cells allowing our lips to become smooth, soft, moisturized and healthy. Skin (in this case -...Read More

How To Exfoliate Your Lips in a Safe and Healthy Way

In this blog post we are going to explore in depth one of the 10 steps in lip care, which is exfoliation; lip scrubs specifically. Our lips have very thin skin layer. There are also no oil glands on the...Read More

Rosette Gommage Peeling Gel – REVIEW

Peeling gels are a gentle and safe way to exfoliate your skin. Unlike harsh chemical peels, you can use peeling gels through the year and even if you have sensitive skin. If you are not familiar with these types of...Read More

Dear, Klairs – Supple Preparation Facial Toner, Review

Dear, Klairs – Supple Preparation Facial Toner has received an extensive list of awards by many magazines and cosmetic companies. It was ranked #1 Best Toner on Glowpick. Toners are a very important step in our skin care routine; this...Read More

2NDESIGN Springy Peeling Gel Tone Up Boost Review

Peeling gels is one of the safe and gentle was to exfoliate your skin. If you do not know what peeling gels are, please, follow THIS link so you could read an extensive post about this type of exfoliants. Now,...Read More

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What Are Peeling Gels and How To Use Them To Exfoliate The Skin

Exfoliation is one of the steps in skin care routine. However, it is very important to understand that exfoliation needs to be gentle so we do not ruin our protective skin barrier. There are many ways you can safely exfoliate...Read More

What Are Enzyme Peels and How to Use Them to Exfoliate The Skin

Skin exfoliation is one of the steps in skin care routine. There are many ways to exfoliate your skin: scrubs (please, do not do it, facial scrubs shouldn’t be even sold, unless it is a gentle powder scrub), chemical...Read More

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PURITO Galacto Niacin 97 Power Essence – Review

(This post contains affiliate links. That means that if you make a purchase, I might receive a small commission at no extra cost to you.) If you are struggling with freckles, age spots, oily shine and skin dehydration, then you...Read More

6 Major Reasons You Should Be Using Cleansing Oil

Hello and thank you for stopping by. We are going to dive deep and learn about cleansing oil for face. Cleansing oil for face has been a controversial product for many people. Some people report that it clogs their pores...Read More

Skin Care During Self Isolation Guide

How to Use Quarantine Time to Get Glowing Skin In this crazy pandemic time it is really easy to feel down and worried even for the most optimistic people. I think what gets me the most is uncertainty - when...Read More

What is Double Cleansing Method and Why You Need to Do It

At some point in life I believed that soap and water was the best face washing routine. I have oily skin and really loved this crispy feeling after viciously rubbing my skin with soap. My skin felt very dry after,...Read More

What Is The Skin Barrier and Why You Should Care About It

"Wash your face the right way!" This phrase always made me chuckle. Like seriously, how can you wash your face the wrong way? You just use some soap or cleanser, rub your face, splash it with water and here you...Read More

Difference Between Essence, Serum and Ampoule

Essence is the next step in the skin care routine and is applied after a toner. However, if you start looking around at skin care products, you will also find an ampoule and serum. And they are also the next...Read More

Overnight sleeping mask or Night cream: what to use?

Night cream vs Sleeping mask Overnight sleeping masks are an awesome Korean invention. It is so cool that we can apply a product packed with all the good stuff on our skin, go to sleep and let the mask to...Read More

Good and Bad Alcohols in Cosmetic Products

The alcohol in skin care products causes a lot of confusion. Alcohol in cosmetics has “bad” reputation and people try to avoid it because of very common belief: alcohol dries your skin up. It is partially true and there are...Read More

Probiotics and Prebiotics in Skin Care – Are they good for you?

_ You probably heard about probiotics and prebiotic in some way. It’s been a hot topic for awhile. Simply put probiotics and prebiotics help to maintain a balance between “good” and “bad” bacteria. What do probiotics do? You see,...Read More

What is Galactomyces ferment and What it does to your skin?

Now days skin care is quite unique and interesting as more and more researches are conducted on different skin care ingredients. Retinol, snail mucin and even synthetic tripeptide that “mimics” the effect of a peptide found in a snake venom...Read More

How to Do Facial At Home With Homemade Natural Products

Hello. Today we are going to continue our discussion about face clean up at home. We already explored spa-like facial at home steps and also learnt why it is important to clean face daily and how to do it. In...Read More

8 Steps to Do a Facial Clean Up At Home

How to clean your face at home properly and without damaging your skin. Clean face is the very first and very important step to achieving clear, glowing skin. When we clean our face, especially at the end of the day,...Read More

12 Easy Steps To Have a Spa-Like Facial At Home

Many people consider doing facial at home to save money. Which is very true - by doing your own facial you will be able to save lots of dollars. I am doing my own facials for other additional reasons: First,...Read More

11 Powerful Cosmetic Ingredients for Anti-Aging Skin Care

I believe that at some point all of us heard the term “anti-aging”. In the present time beauty and cosmetic industries are under huge pressure to ditch term “anti-aging” altogether as diminishing, disrespectful and even shameful for men...Read More

8 Amazing Manuka Honey Benefits for Skin

People has known the amazing useful properties of honey since ancient times. The first record of beekeeping and possible use of honey dates back to 2,400 B.C. Different cultures around the globe enjoyed honey for its medicinal and culinary properties....Read More

Mediheal Pumpkin Vita Mask – Korean Face Mask Review

Hello and thank you for visiting. It is fall here in Canada and leaves are changing colours and the pumpkin harvest comes in. You can see pumpkins everywhere: people decorate their porches with this squash. You can smell pumpkin...Read More

Amazing Benefits of Activated Charcoal for Skin and Hair

Activated charcoal has been used for centuries in purifying water, treating upset stomach and eliminating toxins from the body. Emergency rooms use activated charcoal drinks to treat overdose, food poisoning and other toxins ingestions. When we talk about...Read More

Benefits of Tea Tree Oil for Hair and Skin

Hello and thank you for visiting. Today we are going to talk about tea tree oil, its benefits for skin and hair and explore products that contain tea tree oil. Tea tree oil is a transparent liquid...Read More

How to Use Aloe Vera for Face and Acne

There are several types of aloe plant that have many useful properties. However, Aloe Vera is the most widely used one in cosmetics and medicine. It can regenerate and heal your wounds and skin scars and blemishes. You can find...Read More

NEOGEN Real Fresh Cleansing Stick Green Tea – Review

Neogen Dermatology is a Korean premium brand that produced many products. The company has been around since 1982 and now has multiple offices all over the world. The company has its own high-tech laboratory where employees constantly...Read More

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18 Reasons Why You Should Be Using Rose Water in Your Care Routine

Rose water has a vast variety of medical and cosmetic benefits. It serves as an excellent addition to anyone’s skin care and hair care routine. Healing properties of rose water have been known even to ancient people in Rome,...Read More

7 Recipes of Homemade Face Toners for Glowing Skin

Face toners are a very important part of a skin care routine. In fact, you can actually skip other steps like applying serum or cream, but you should always apply a skin toner. What are skin toners? Toners usually look...Read More

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4 Reasons You Should Be Using A Facial Toner

Many people consider facial toner to be just an extra skin care product that is nice, but not necessary to use and include in skin care routine. However, facial toner is a crucial component of daily skin care routine and...Read More

From AA to ZZ – guide to double letter skincare

s AA, BB, CC, DD, EE, FF, GG, PP and ZZ creams. What do all those letters stand for? What do they mean? And what is the difference? You are probably wondering (well, I was) what the difference is between...Read More

Full Guide to The Best Skin Care Routine For Sensitive Skin

Once you determined that you have a sensitive skin type, you can start developing your own skin care routine. In my opinion sensitive skin is the most challenging type because it could react to any new product or even...Read More

Complete Guide To The Best Skin Care Routine for Combination Skin

Once you determine your skin type to be the combination one ( please, read my extensive post on how to determine your skin type), the next step in is to establish the best skin care routine that will suit your...Read More

Ultimate Guide to The Best Skin Care Routine for Dry Skin

How to establish skin care routine that is right for dry skin type Once you determine your skin type to be the dry one( please, read my extensive post on how to determine your skin type), the next step in...Read More

Full Guide to The Best Skin Care Routine For Oily Skin

Couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about how you can determine your own skin type and start building your own skin care routine. In this post I will be focusing in depth on skin care routine for oily...Read More

Why knowing your skin type is the very first step in skin care routine?

How to establish the best skin care routine according to your skin type? Figuring out your own skin care routine could be overwhelming and very confusing. First of all, hardly anybody has specific education on determining her or...Read More

12 Easy And Amazing Tips For The Best Winter Skin Care

How to take care of your skin during winter months to protect and prevent it from dryness and other damages Winter skin care is quite different from summer skin care routine. During winter times skin get much dryer and becomes...Read More

What causes blackheads and how to treat them

(Disclaimer: this page contains affiliate links, meaning if you make a purchase, I will get a small commission at no cost to you.) Majority of people would have blackheads on their noses at some point of life; especially through teenager’s...Read More

Hydrating Face Mists – all you need to know about them

Face mist sprays are becoming more and more popular nowadays. They are easy and convenient to use and are packed with ingredients beneficial for skin. What is a face mist and its benefits? Facial mist sprays are just what they...Read More

What are parabens? Are they really harmful?

What are parabens? Parabens are a class of preservative chemicals. They are added to foods, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and personal care products (such as shampoos, lotions, deodorants, creams, moisturizers etc.) to prevent growth of bacteria and fungi. Because of parabens products...Read More