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7 Tips for Protecting Your Dark Skin
7 Tips for Protecting Your Dark Skin
Protecting your skin is important, no matter your skin tone. Although those with darker skin have more natural protection against UV radiation because their skin contains more melanin than lighter skin, those with darker skin tones may experience some different...
The Backstory to One of Our Best-Sellers: How Vitamins C and E Became Skincare Stars
The Backstory to One of Our Best-Sellers: How Vitamins C and E Became Skincare Stars
  While doing a little New Year office cleanse, we ran across some interesting notes written by Dr. Fulton himself detailing the breakthrough development of our top-selling Pure C + E Antioxidant Serum (formerly Spin Trap). Here, we share Dr....
It's National Skin Cancer Awareness Month: 12 Tips for Lowering Your Risk
It's National Skin Cancer Awareness Month: 12 Tips for Lowering Your Risk
May is National Skin Cancer Awareness Month in the United States. Skin cancer is the country's most common cancer; there are more new cases each year than prostate, breast, colon and lung cancers combined. Recent studies indicate that an estimated...
Pregnancy Skincare: What to Expect from Your Skin When You’re Expecting
Pregnancy Skincare: What to Expect from Your Skin When You’re Expecting
It’s no surprise that pregnancy brings profound changes to your body, but the stresses pregnancy can put on your skin may be less expected. The hormonal and vascular shifts experienced during pregnancy can trigger issues even in skin that’s normally...
8 worst summer skin care mistakes and how to fix them
8 worst summer skin care mistakes and how to fix them
  Summer is here, and you’ve got better things to think about than your skin. Or do you? Before you toss out your worries, put on your skorts, and pop open the rosé, there are just one or two things...
Gimmick or Go-To? How to Pick the Best Cleanser
Gimmick or Go-To? How to Pick the Best Cleanser
From foams and balms to carbonated, chelated, and charcoaled cleansers, what was once the most basic step in the skin care regimen has become a smorgasbord of exotic ingredients, notional textures, and ever-expanding promises.  Is a triple step cleanse really...
Skincare Opinions: The Unpopular, the Unfounded, the Undisputed
Skincare Opinions: The Unpopular, the Unfounded, the Undisputed
People have opinions about skincare. A lot of them. And they love to share, which is fantastic when the advice is solid and based in science. But when it’s not, it’s not just time-wasting. It can actually be harmful. Being...
Ask the Esthy: Vivant’s In-House Esthetician Answers Your Questions
Ask the Esthy: Vivant’s In-House Esthetician Answers Your Questions
  Every week we invite questions from the Instagram community to be answered by our in-house esthetician. There’s such a wealth of great information that comes from these sessions. We like to share it so everyone can benefit. Here, in...
The Ultimate Reset for Zoom-Ready Skin
The Ultimate Reset for Zoom-Ready Skin
  If you’re looking for the ultimate reset for skin that’s aggravated by the one-two punch of protective mask-wearing and stress, we’ve got the perfect tip. You may already have the necessary products on your bathroom counter. You just hadn’t thought...
Is This Normal? What to Expect When You Start Using a Dermatological Line
Is This Normal? What to Expect When You Start Using a Dermatological Line
  With many skin care products, it’s hard to know whether or not they are having any real effect on your skin. Vivant products are formulated with active ingredients that have a direct effect on the skin, so when you...
Exfoliation: Physical? Mechanical? Chemical? What’s The Dif? The Doctor Explains
Exfoliation: Physical? Mechanical? Chemical? What’s The Dif? The Doctor Explains
  When you think about exfoliation, do you think scorched earth, leave no prisoners, tender, red, inflamed skin? If you said yes, we’ve got news. There’s a better way. In fact, there are several.    Exfoliation clears away the dead...
The Holy Trinity of Skincare: Three Things Every Regimen Needs
The Holy Trinity of Skincare: Three Things Every Regimen Needs
There are a lot of beneficial skincare ingredients. But if we had to boil it down to the absolute essentials, the ones you can’t do without, the ones that are the foundation of every skincare regimen, it comes down to...