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Fiona McKim

If you try one beauty product, make it this cheap-as-chips fix for bumpy, rough body skin

A marble backdrop containing an image of a hand with red painted fingernails, holding cetaphil SA exfoliating lotion, next to an image of beauty editor fiona mckim smiling with a yellow shirt on.

I don't know who was put in charge of naming skin conditions back in the day, but some of them could do with a rebrand.

You've got your tricky to pronounce and even harder to spell ones; eczema, psoriasis, rosacea, et al. Your misleadingly disgusting ones (looking at you, nothing-to-do-with-worms ringworm!) Then, there's the apex of the genre, which boasts a mouthful medical title and revolting nickname - keratosis pilaris, aka chicken skin.

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