Venom of snake and sting of bee, slime of snail and milk of cow - they sound like the ingredients of a witch's spell. But they can all be found in lotions and potions designed to keep the skin looking ...

Korean beauty is a $13 billion business that has beauty and skin care lovers buzzing. So why is K-beauty so popular? The products are often an effective, innovative way to get glowing, hydrated, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. You don’t have to be cute to inspire an animal-derived skincare range, but it helps. From bee venom, said to mimic ...

Amazon's Big Deal Days and its wide array of money-saving deals is a smart time to invest into some hardworking skincare to treat your face and body. While the typical suspects such as Urban Decay, ...

Move over slugging, it’s snail mucin’s time to shine. The current skin care obsession makes use of actual snail slime — aka snail secretion filtrate — for plumper, softer and smoother skin. Snail ...

Are there any lengths we won’t go to in an effort to defy the visible effects of age? The answer is no, if the latest slimy trend in Japan is anything to go by. Earlier this month it was reported that ...

What would you do for glowing, dewy skin? Cleopatra famously bathed in donkey’s milk. Demi Moore relies on leeches, Teri Hatcher draws up a wine bath, Cindy Crawford totes her own DIY milk spray while ...

While vegan or plant-based skincare products once held sway, now animal-based remedies are topping TikTok trends – but this time they have a modern twist and are a more ethical solution than they once ...

Welcome back to Your Shopping Cart, wherein we break out the top-five products that you, devoted Strategist readers, all bought in droves. Think of this as the tl;dr of the Strategist: If your ...