Storing Skincare Products: The Mistakes That Let Heat and Light In
Heat, light and air are what shorten a skincare product’s life, and a few storage habits keep them from doing damage.

Heat, light and air are what shorten a skincare product’s life, and a few storage habits keep them from doing damage.

A travel skincare routine should be smaller than your usual one: a few familiar products, used consistently, with sunscreen doing the heavy lifting.

Day moisturizers are usually lighter and often include SPF; night creams are richer. Many people do fine with one moisturizer and a separate sunscreen.

Wash, moisturize and apply sunscreen: three steps cover what a morning skincare routine needs to do, and extras are optional.

Mineral and chemical sunscreens protect skin differently, and the right one usually comes down to skin type and habits, not marketing claims.

Most skincare irritation comes from doing too much at once, not from picking the wrong products.

The number on a sunscreen bottle measures time in the sun, not strength — here’s what it tells you.
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