Wellness
The Case for a Slower Beauty Routine
Fewer products, applied with more attention, beat a twelve-step routine every time. A dermatologist and three editors make the case.
Somewhere along the way, skincare stopped being about skin and started being about acquisition — another serum, another step, another reason to distrust whatever you were doing before. A growing number of dermatologists want to reverse that.
The argument isn’t against product, exactly. It’s against volume. A cleanser, a moisturizer with SPF, and one active ingredient used consistently will outperform a nine-step routine applied inconsistently, because the skin barrier that most routines quietly damage needs time and restraint to repair.
What a slower routine buys you, beyond better skin, is a few unhurried minutes that aren’t about optimization. That, more than any ingredient, may be the part worth keeping.
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