Features Editor
Melissa Whitaker
Melissa produces the interviews at Second Skin: the research, the question lists, the follow-ups. She asks every founder how a formula should feel at nine at night, then asks why it took eleven samples to get there.
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By Melissa Whitaker
Inside Eadem with Marie and Alice, the milky routine for marks
What Liah Yoo learned from tired skin and noisy shelves
Inside Kypris with Chase Polan, mixing serum and oil by hand
Susanne Norwitz and the coral oil in a solar lab
Why Lindy Snider chose calm textures for treatment skin
What eighty-one editor picks change for your shelf
Andrea Faulkner Williams and the nightly tub and balm ritual
What good skincare should feel like, with Alli Reed
Slow oil rituals that calm stressed skin, with Athena Hewett
Marie-Veronique Nadeau and the weight of a well made serum bottle
Kendra Kolb Butler on steeping wild plants for barrier calm
Shani Darden on feel and strong skincare made wearable daily
Fewer finer bottles made slowly, with April Gargiulo
Why Danielle Gronich and Kayleigh Christina chose subtraction over more actives
Science
Why tape on lips at night matters for restless sleepers
Europe rewrote packaging rules, keepers take centre stage
Texas A&M tested daily creatine, strength held without training
One whole oil kept as pressed, with Allison Taylor
Inside Fré with Azoulay, skin that moves in sun
Shared jars face a new label rule in Europe
Kate Solomon on soft mineral care for sensitive family skin
Lorrie King and Celeste Lee on touchable skincare for changing grownup skin
What Matt Mullenax learned from Chicago winters and bad skin days
Julie Elliott on steeping flowers into daily skincare ritual
