TikTok is feeding me “Cortisol Face” content. It’s a little alarming, because in truth I have been anxious recently and it’s showing on my skin. The algorithm apparently knows this too.
As the nation’s collective stress levels continue to soar — 63 per cent of adults in the UK claim to be stressed on a weekly basis — and in the year when TikTok has declared everything from “pore vacuums” to “banana peel Botox” as the secret to sensational skin, perhaps it was only a matter of time before cortisol — the body’s primary stress hormone — got its starring moment.
