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Hacking “Plum Plump Hyaluronic Acid Moisturizer” from Glow Recipe?

March 24th, 2022 by Dr. Hannah Sivak

But first, what’s in it? What can it do for you? The ingredient list wants to convey “natural” and “plum” (just because plum and plump together sound like fun), so you will find many label value ingredients below the 1% concentration, which is the boundary after which you can list the ingredients in any order. This is a good way to hide preservatives, but here there are a couple at the end of the list (Sodium Benzoate, Phenoxyethanol). Plums are a type of fruit of the genus Prunus, but this product uses fruits that may look like plums but belong to many different, unrelated species. There are some nice ingredients…