Los Angeles Magazine
Super-Ingredient Overindulgence Is Doing Your Skin More Harm than Good
When it comes to super-ingredients, less can be more
If there’s one thing LA gets a bad rap for, it’s our tendency to overindulge in just about everything–shopping sprees, happy hours at 3:00 p.m., the Paleo diet–you get the idea. I’m pretty fastidious about overindulging in any hot new skincare trend, and I’m not shy about shelling out lots of money for a newly-launched, magical potion or serum. I tend to tell myself that the tingling sensation means that the stuff is working.