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The Best Skincare for Hormonal Acne Over 40
Your skin at age 40 is not your skin at age 17, but sometimes it stubbornly behaves as if it is: oiliness, clogged pores, painful breakouts, and lingering post-acne discoloration. The difference is that adult skin is also dealing with...
How To Clear and Control Body Acne
How To Clear and Control Body Acne
Body acne is a common yet often overlooked skin concern that affects areas beyond the face, including the back, chest, arms, and shoulders. Like facial breakouts, body acne develops when excess oil and dead skin cells clog follicles, leading to...
Bare Necessities: How To Clear and Control Body Acne
Bare Necessities: How To Clear and Control Body Acne

Body acne is a common concern often triggered by factors like sweating, friction, and clogged pores—here are practical tips to help you keep it under control.

Before and After Using Mandelic Acid for Dark Spot Repair
Dark Spots Repair: The Definitive Guide
What causes dark spots? What is hyperpigmentation? How can I get rid of dark spots? What are the best brightening ingredients? Your pigment problems solved.
Do antioxidants protect skin from sun damage
Dial Up Your Antioxidant Therapy to Protect Skin from Summer Sun Damage
Melanin is the skin’s natural shield designed to protect cells from damage, and UV is its prime trigger. The more UV exposure skin receives, the more melanin it produces. The excess pigment production is part of a reactive chain of...
What skincare products are good when pregnant
Positively Glowing: Skin Care During Pregnancy
Breakouts and melasma are common problems during pregnancy. Both are the products of hormones that go into overdrive as your body is in full baby production mode. Androgens, the hormones responsible for oil production, are stimulated by testosterone. The increased...
How to stop signs of aging in skin
Damage Control: How to Spot (and Stop) the First Signs of Aging
Skincare is like a 401K; the sooner you start, the better it works. While you may think you’ve got plenty of time before you need to worry about your first wrinkle, investing early will pay dividends later because prevention is...
Will hyaluronic acid make me look younger
Hyaluronic Acid: The Youth Molecule
Table of contents What is Hyaluronic Acid (HA) What Does Hyaluronic Acid Do For Your Skin? How To Use Hyaluronic Acid Recommended Products Are There Other Ways To Take Advantage of Hyaluronic Acid’s Benefits? Moisture is essential for keeping cells...
Best skin care over 50
Best Skin Care Over 50
Table of content   Highlights of FF3 Biointensive GF The Ultimate Ageless Regimen Your morning and evening cleanse Your morning serum Your night serum Your essential eye cream Sunscreen every morning Ingredients like retinoids, peptides, antioxidants, acids, and lipids have...
What skincare should I bring when I travel
Six Essential Products for Your Travel Plans
From TSA-friendly toners to skin-saving serums and SPF, here are your must-packs for a smooth trip and even smoother skin. The first rule of travel: don’t forget your cleanser. Long flights, travel delays, and running for connections—the first thing you’re...
How to get glowy skin
Glass Skin? How to Get the Luminous Skin of Your Dreams, Makeup-Free
Glass skin refers to skin that’s impossibly smooth, luminous, and dewy. We’re here to tell you it is achievable without any makeup. But it will take a great skincare routine. That’s where we come in. Table of content How to...
Skin care that really works
Life-Changing Skincare? Our Customers Say, “Holy Glow!”
  When people write to tell us they had given up on finding solutions to their skin issues, then discovered Vivant and it changed their lives, we do a little happy dance. There’s nothing more gratifying than helping people reach...
Why REt (RP)™ Retinoid Outperforms Traditional Retinoids
Why REt (RP)™ Retinoid Outperforms Traditional Retinoids
Modern topical retinoid science began when Dr. James E. Fulton co-developed Retin-A, helping reshape the treatment of acne-prone skin and visible skin aging. But Dr. Fulton recognized a persistent problem: Traditional retinoids can work well, yet irritation often prevents long-term...
The skin benefits of mandelic acid for your skin
5 Amazing Benefits of Mandelic Acid for Your Skin
From acne to aging to even tone, mandelic acid is the multi-tasking AHA that does it all. Table of contents What is Mandelic Acid? 5 Amazing Things Mandelic Acid Can Do For Your Skin Our Favorite Mandelic Acid Products Skin...
Vivant 8% and 15% Mandelic Acid Serums
Mandelic Acid: The Complete Dermatologist’s Guide
Mandelic Acid is a skin-friendly alpha hydroxy acid that takes on acne, wrinkles, pigmentation, and dullness to safely transform texture and tone in even the most sensitive skin. Because we get so many questions about this magical multi-tasker, we’ve pulled...
Yes, You Can and Should Use Retinoids in Summer
Yes, You Can and Should Use Retinoids in Summer
Table of content Do retinoids make skin more sensitive to UV? Does sunlight reduce retinoid efficacy? Summer Rules for Retinoids What are the different types of retinoids? The Bottom Line Retinoids are the crown jewel of skin care for their...
How do I keep my skin healthy while traveling
Arrive Revived: How to Keep Skin Healthy While Traveling
Long hours to reach your destination, a new environment, different weather, changes in diet and sleep patterns—traveling can be rough on skin. But it doesn’t have to be. You can enjoy your trip and keep your skin healthy at the...
Will using ice on my skin help
Cold Therapy: The New Old Thing You Have To Try
Long before Kylie and Kendall Jenner touted the “slush facial” as the next big thing in radiance boosting, Dr. Fulton was expounding the virtues of cold therapy for skin health. What Dr. Fulton knew then, holds true today. Cold therapy...
The Best Books On Beauty, Skin Care, and Being A BadAss Boss Of Life
The Best Books On Beauty, Skin Care, and Being A BadAss Boss Of Life
  It’s a new year and with it, the chance for a fresh start, new goals, new milestones. We’re finding inspiration in a handful of books that are too good to keep to ourselves. Here’s what’s on the desks in...
Juli Bauer: The Powerhouse Behind PaleOMG
Juli Bauer: The Powerhouse Behind PaleOMG
The internet’s prophet of Paleo on fitness, food, skin care, and winning at life. Juli Bauer is a CrossFit trainer, paleo diet evangelist, New York Times best-selling author of three cookbooks, and the founder and writer of the popular PaleOMG...
Catherine Urbanski Wants You To Be Your Own Beauty Icon
Catherine Urbanski Wants You To Be Your Own Beauty Icon
The founder and writer of fashion and beauty blog Atypical 60 talks aging, humor, and her ongoing love affair with France.   In January 2015 after a company closure thrust her into a job market where she found herself bumping...