The GlowGetters Guide

  No matter how religiously you follow your skincare routine, no matter how much research you put into the best products and the best ways of applying, things get in the way. You may have flawless, even skin tone ninety percent of the time, and other times — surprise acne, or maybe you wake up and notice a small sunspot blooming on your cheek. Unfortunately, we can’t control everything, even if there are ways to...

It’s inevitable. There are just some days - or weeks - when you can’t get enough hours of sleep in a night, or the stress of everyday life has caught up to you. Without a doubt, on one of these days, you’ll bump into a co-worker or friend and get the dreaded, “You look tired.” And that’s when you realize you look as exhausted as you feel. There’s no way around having days like this...

We thought the worst of our skincare problems peaked at the same time as our teenage enemy — high school. While many things contribute to whether or not you have acne, it’s most common and most annoying in your teenage years. That’s because when your hormones are running amok throughout puberty and causing you to cry over some boy who wears the same pair of sweatpants to school every day, they’re also impacting your skin!...

Knowing when and how frequently you should wash your face is tricky. Partially because there are so many opinions circulating the internet that it’s difficult to just get a clear answer. If washing your face was like washing your hands, you’d likely have a clear set of rules: wash frequently and thoroughly, before and after mealtimes, or after being in a crowd, after using the bathroom, and since 2020, probably twice that! But, the face...

If you struggle with hyperpigmentation or melasma, particularly on your face, you may feel like you’ve tried everything under the sun to reduce the appearance of these dark marks. It can be incredibly frustrating to feel like you’re doing the same things as everybody else to take care of your skin…yet you still can’t escape from these self-esteem-busting shadows over all of your hard work. Among the more popular treatments for dark marks and hyperpigmentation...

Combination skin types can be one of the most difficult to find a good skincare regimen for. Your dry-skinned peers need only look up highly moisturizing lotions, and your oily friends can look to ranges meant to dry them out. But products intended to cut down on your skin’s sebum production and reduce oiliness can make the dry spots on your face even drier and irritated. One is too oily, one is too dry—but which...

Now is the time to forget everything you were taught from TLC’s 90’s hit “No Scrubs.” Here at Urban Skin Rx®, we are all about the scrubs. Body scrubs are a great way to cleanse and exfoliate your skin. This way of cleaning your skin will benefit and brighten your skin in many ways. Because exfoliating your skin removes the top layer of dead skin cells, it simultaneously stimulates collagen production, leaving your skin firm...

Now that it’s getting cooler out and our hours of warm, glorious sunlight are giving way to sweater weather and wholesome nights in, we’re already starting to miss summer. Not that we don’t love hot chocolate and a cozy knit, but there’s just something about long days in the sun and the feeling of it on your face that you can’t beat, except when it comes to skin damage. Even if you apply your SPF...