Features Editor
Julia Atkins
Julia produces the interviews at Face Value: the research, the question lists, the follow-ups. She will ask a founder for the concentration and the sample size, politely, and then wait.
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By Julia Atkins
Inside Vintner’s Daughter with April Gargiulo, testing slow skincare claims
Lindy Snider on care for skin during treatment stress
Jared Pobre and the alpine botanicals tested for dry male skin
Wild plants and clinical actives for calm skin, with Kendra Kolb Butler
Desiree Verdejo on clearing dark spots on deeper skin
81 and what twelve months of testing can show
Inside Monastery with Athena Hewett, what the evidence supports
Jamika Martin on honest formulas for breakouts and dark marks
Liah Yoo and the quiet evidence for tamanu and restraint
Why Marie-Veronique Nadeau built a barrier line on restraint
Renée Rouleau on typing skin for clearer results at home
Danielle Gronich and Kayleigh Christina on subtracting triggers that clog pores
Why the wellness rule matters for careful skincare buyers
Why Susanne Norwitz built a clinical line around one seed oil
FDA added bemotrizinol, wider UVA options coming
41 and what launching really shows after incubation
Inside Laurel Skin with Laurel Shaffer, testing whole plant claims
Rachel Roff and the measured case for licorice root and cysteamine
EU lowered the formaldehyde warning threshold, labels will change
What Olamide Olowe learned from slow testing on deepest tones first
Why Andrea Faulkner Williams chose simple formulas for reactive skin
Ten products slowly tested and kept, with Charlotte Cho
What 1 percent retinol can show, with founder Shani Darden
Hormone depleted skin needs simpler proof, with King and Lee
