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Ten skin and beauty supplements arranged on a shelf

Edit 074 · THE INSIDE JOB The Inside Job: Supplements With Skin Ambitions Ten things you swallow for the sake of your face, read the way we read a serum: by the label, not the promise.

Ten red light therapy devices arranged on a shelf

Edit 053 · THE RED LIGHT RABBIT HOLE The Red Light Rabbit Hole: Red Light Therapy for People Who Have Gone All In We started with the face mask. Somehow there is now a red light shower.

Eight inexpensive everyday objects arranged on a shelf

Edit 044 · LOW TECH Low Tech: The Cheap Objects That Earn Their Place Beside the Machines Eight objects, none of them over thirty dollars, that you pick up more days than not.

Edit 041 · HOT WATER Hot Water: The Shower, Taken Seriously The water, the three steps that touch the most skin, the brush before them and the towels after, and two washes that are really about how the room smells. Plus an honest account of what a shower filter can and cannot do.

Edit 040 · THE WELLNESS EDIT What Survives a Suitcase Eight things, three of them bags because they solve genuinely different problems, and a dryer that will not die abroad.

Edit 039 · THE WELLNESS EDIT What Makes a Vanity Worth Sitting At Eight objects that make a vanity work: good light, storage sized to what you use, and the layer on top that gets you to sit down at all.

Edit 038 · THE WELLNESS EDIT Recovery Hardware, Ranked by What It Actually Does Compression, percussion, heat and red light, ranked by what they do for soreness and not by what they cost. The cheaper option usually does most of what the flagship does.

Edit 037 · PLUGGED IN Plugged In: Nine Devices, One Jar, and Which Claims Survive Nine expensive devices, one humble jar of eye patches, and a clear account of which claims are supported, which are thin, and which we will not repeat.

Edit 036 · THE WELLNESS EDIT What Actually Changes How You Sleep Eight things that change the room rather than the person. Temperature first, because it is the one most people get wrong.

Ten facial devices and LED masks arranged on a shelf

Edit 052 · THE AT-HOME TREATMENT ROOM The At-Home Treatment Room: Ten Devices Trying to Move the Clinic Into Your Bathroom LED, radio frequency, microcurrent and everything else competing with your next appointment.

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