Common skincare myths—like believing oily skin doesn't need moisturizer, natural ingredients are always safer, or that you can shrink pores—can hinder skin health.
Spoiler: The science doesn't care about price tags. Somewhere along the way, silicones and PEGs became dirty words. Scroll through any "clean beauty" blog and you'll find dimethicone treated like it crawled out of a chemical waste plant. PEGs? Apparently they're contaminated nightmares that have no business touching your precious skin. And yet. Open a jar of La Mer's $380 Crème de la Mer and you'll find cyclopentasiloxane, phenyl trimethicone, and dimethicone staring right b
