‘It seems I infuriated many readers a few weeks back by saying toner is useless. Allow me to explain…’
It seems I infuriated many a few weeks back by saying toner is useless. I unwittingly made those who swear by liquid exfoliants such as Clinique Clarifying Lotion, Alpha-H Liquid Gold or Clarins Gentle Exfoliator Brightening Toner think I was dissing their favourite products. Not so.
I can see why this happened, so allow me to clarify my distinction: when I say “toner”, I mean those floral/herbal waters that “refresh” the skin. Lovely they may be, essential they are not. Liquid exfoliants, on the other hand, use alpha or beta hydroxy acids (or both) to remove surface dead skin smoothly and uniformly, treating spots, blackheads, fine lines (not wrinkles) and dullness as they go.
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