Skin Cleanse

Some good advice here about how your skin is a whole organ unto itself, and responds to lifestyle factors (look to your stress levels and whether your diet contains vegetables and fruits), but unfortunately an absolute f*ckload of diet-culture garbage where certain foods are demonized, without sufficient evidence of them being “bad for you”. (Guess what else is bad for you and your skin? Eating disorders.) A shallow understanding of epigenetics and how you should look to your ancestors' likely diets to inform what will work for you (and, it's assumed, your skin), with zero acknowledgment of people who have mixed heritage, with ancestors from wildly disparate cultural/geographic regions.

On the plus side, it's extremely accessible and an easy read, introduces the idea of the acid mantle and that your skin doesn't necessarily need products. Basically, this book is, at best, the gateway through which a reader can access better-written, more scientifically-informed writing about skin care. Honestly, just read Jessica DeFino's Substack.