As you may have garnered from sex ed, hormones can be
terrifying
. The same way a Faberg
é
egg could be: incredibly delicate and easily unbalanced. Oh, and they’re responsible for the function of some very significant aspects of your body, like your metabolism, all thing
sexual health
, hair growth, mood, and brain function. Especially if you’re a woman, they can majorly eff with things like your skin and whether you fit into your clothing on any given day. Fun, right?
Even more fun is the fact that we antagonize our hormones in more than just the obvious ways—we do it in ways that you’d never suspect. Namely, the holy-grail products lurking in your skin-care cabinet. As
Gwyneth has expounded on extensively
since launching her skin-care brand under the Goop umbrella, the products we put on our faces religiously are largely unregulated. To help us make sense of it all (and dial down the panic button slightly), we hopped on the phone with Adina Grigore, founder of Brooklyn-based
S.W. Basics
, who literally wrote the book (
titled Skin Cleanse
)
on omitting toxic ingredients from your skin-care routine.
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