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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Rosie Fitzmaurice

Golden rules of skincare: 11 things you (probably) didn’t know you should be doing

The pandemic sent us all wild for skincare, as we temporarily zipped up our makeup bags and got stuck in to home facials and DIY TikTok treatments.

But have you descended into bad habits? Probably, according to virtually all of the top dermatologists, aesthetic doctors and skincare experts I spoke to for this article, who predominantly share one concern: you’re overdoing it on the skincare front — over exfoliation and overuse of retinoids is now rife — and that can lead to all manners of issues further down the line.

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