Posts by The Glow Recipe Team
Ready, Set, Cleanse! The Best Oil Cleanser For Your Skintype
Not sure which cleansing oil is best for you? We’ve covered why oil cleansing is important and how to do the K-beauty double cleanse, and we’ve curated three very different oil cleansers that can help you complete your double cleansing regimen- but what’s the difference between them? Our family of oil cleansers is ever-growing as we happen…
Read MoreGlow Recipe at Beautycon LA 2016
Under the uncommonly overcast sky in Los Angeles, a pink banner proudly proclaiming “#BeautyconLA” broke through the concrete landscape. Moving towards the LA Convention Center like a moth attracted to a flame, our Glow Recipe team entered through the sliding doors of the Los Angeles Convention Center. After ascending the escalators, Kandee Johnson’s smiling face…
Read MoreHave Petals, Will Travel: Petal Masks to Minimize Your Travel Skincare
When I used the Blossom Jeju 2 step mask for the first time, I knew it was something seriously special. It had the magical combination of things about it that made me harken back to the humble beginnings of my love affair with K-beauty, where each new product made me sigh and yearn to break it…
Read MoreKeep Your Pore Game Strong: Pore Care 101
Our Co-Founder Christine and I sat down today for our second-ever Facebook live to talk about pores- specifically, how to keep them clear and minimized! We took questions from our viewers and shared some of our favorite tips, ingredients, and pore minimizing routines. Catch the video in full below: Ready to get your pore care…
Read More4 Skin Care Mistakes You May Be Making
4 Skin Care Mistakes You May Be Making We’re in a golden age of beauty. The cosmetics industry is forecast to exceed $62 billion in gross revenues in the United States alone. Skin care, one of the fastest growing segments of the industry, is expected to reach $11 billion in revenues by 2018. Beauty…
Read MoreHow the #Rubbermasking Pros do it
After we first launched one-time use rubber masks last year, the craze hasn’t shown any signs of stopping. And I get it, I truly do. There’s a reason this treatment has been a Korean spa staple for years on end. Despite the countless sheet masks and masks I’m constantly testing, my go-to on weekend spa…
Read MoreHow to Pick the Best Double Cleansing Routine
Considered the most important part of skincare throughout Asia, cleansing (more specifically, the double cleanse) has become a beauty ritual synonymous with and unique to Korean and Asian beauty routines, resulting in the development of highly specialized products and methodologies. This is a topic we discuss all the time, from why double cleansing is effective to how…
Read MoreReady to Mask + CHILL?
Summer’s here, y’all!!! Pack up your sunscreen and get ready to mask + chill. Mask and chill was born when GR staffers co-opted the netflix and chill trend by adding a new element: maximizing self care with a sheet mask! We mask and chill all year long, but wanted to share our tips for summer masking with…
Read MoreHow I Beat Acne with the Power of K-Beauty
My acne has never been an all over phenomenon, even as a teen. Instead, it was the freakier kind that lurks beneath the surface of the skin, swollen and bumpy and rarely coming to a head*. When a pimple would come to a head, it seemed to never heal, scabbing over and re-scabbing as I repeatedly…
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