Mint isn't just for your toothpaste — its ability to work as both an astringent and emollient can yield good results for acne sufferers
Photo-Illustration: retailers In our advice column, Ask the Strategist, we take your most burning shopping questions and survey friends, call up experts, and draw on our own personal experience to answer them. As always, please email any online-shopping-related queries to [email protected] with the subject “Ask the Strategist.” We’re here to help.I’ll be honest, the idea of mint in skin care didn’t totally appeal to me at first .
$40 at Amazon Buy $59 at Dermstore Buy Josh Rosebrook Nutrient Day Cream With SPF 30 $85 $85 For a facial moisturizer that doubles as a sunscreen, I would recommend this one from Josh Rosebrook, which uses peppermint along with nourishing oils like evening primrose, hemp seed, jojoba, almond, olive, and sea buckthorn to help moisturize skin. I like that its sun-blocking properties come from zinc oxide, a physical-sunscreen ingredient that stops sun damage by deflecting UV rays from the skin.
$36 at Amazon Buy $36 at Dermstore Buy Beneath Your Mask Nourish: Skin & Hair Serum $60 $60 If you prefer oils to lotions for moisturizing, I recommend this one from Beneath Your Mask, a Black-owned brand that makes its formulas using clean ingredients. This do-everything oil can be used both on your skin and in your hair and contains a mix of essential oils and oils packed with fatty acids, like safflower, hemp seed, and rose hip, which nourish and give skin that hydrated-looking glow.
$10 at Target Buy C.O. Bigelow Mentha Body Lotion $14 $14 If you’re looking for a straight-up minty-smelling lotion that’s also ultra-affordable, this one from tried-and-true mall classic Bath & Body Works fits the bill. Formulated by C.O. Bigelow Chemists, this body lotion is infused with cooling peppermint oils that’ll give your skin that refreshed, cooling feel. Think toothpaste for your skin but moisturizing.
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