Body & mind Expert Voices Today

No More Hope in a Jar

Here’s one diet you can keep, a diet for your skin.    You only need two or three things: a good cleanser, a good sunscreen and a good moisturizer.  Everything else you can throw out.  The New York Times calls it,  “the cosmetics reduction diet.” Amid the blizzard of advertising,  it’s sometimes hard to remember that, unlike drugs, cosmetics don’t need FDA approval.  Manufacturers don’t have to prove that their skin creams work and there’s little evidence they do. More…