"Skincare products were historically marketing toward women both in message and packaging," Hartman told Business Insider. That is changing, but the vast majority of skincare products are still aimed at women, which he believes has "discouraged men from fully participating or feeling as though the products were meant for them." As a result, male clients are overwhelmed by the options.
Autumn is the season for layering up-and that goes for your skincare, too. As temperatures drop and the heating goes on, many of us notice our faces feeling tighter, drier and more easily irritated-a phenomenon dermatologists sometimes call 'autumn face.' Speaking to the Daily Mail, Dr Derrick Phillips, a consultant dermatologist and spokesperson for The British Skin Foundation, says it all comes down to the health of our skin barrier-the watertight seal that protects the skin's outer layer, the epidermis.
When 28-year-old Abigail Stein from London was prescribed a topical corticosteroid to treat her eczema, she trusted that her skin condition would start to settle. Instead, it erupted. What had begun as a stubborn patch of hand dermatitis spread aggressively across her body. Physicians prescribed stronger and stronger steroid creams, but things only worsened. Stein has had eczema since she was a child and is used to periods of flare-ups and remission.
If you don't already know Dr. Sandra Lee, a.k.a. "Dr. Pimple Popper," you for sure know her videos-those kinda gross but oddly satisfying, up-close-and-personal clips of clients' pores as the doc extracts pimples, cysts, bumps and the epidermal like. Those videos have garnered the doc a massive online presence, with nearly 9 million YouTube subscribers and over 6.4 billion total video views, plus nearly 17 million followers over on TikTok and another five million on Instagram.