{"id":56794,"date":"2026-05-31T08:46:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T00:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=56794"},"modified":"2026-05-31T08:46:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T00:46:02","slug":"want-glowing-skin-on-a-budget-experts-share-their-top-products-and-routines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=56794","title":{"rendered":"Want glowing skin on a budget? Experts share their top products and routines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/05\/28\/98fe53e5-577f-47e5-8844-e4cf998c299c_4e33c622.jpg?itok=UGKOPSq7&amp;v=1779961862\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Between paid influencers and marketing buzzwords, navigating the pseudoscience in the skincare industry \u2013 with claims such as \u201cdermatologist-approved\u201d and \u201cmedical-grade\u201d \u2013 can be confusing and expensive.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Reading the ingredient list is not enough. Often, a good ingredient appears on a bottle but is only present in minuscule quantities.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Alec Batis, a 57-year-old Japanese-Puerto Rican cosmetic chemist, has spent more than three decades working for and with beauty giants such as Nars, L\u2019Oreal, Pfizer, Kiehl\u2019s and Shiseido. He says that formulas get \u201cquietly hollowed out\u201d, with active ingredients reduced down to a tiny amount \u201cthat does no meaningful work\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe big prestige brand products are very good at hydration and barrier support, but the antioxidant complex, the botanical extract, the peptide? They become ingredients which are there only to be talked about,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Long an advocate for transparency in the cosmetics industry, Batis co-founded his own brand, Sweet Chemistry, with New York biotech company Xylyx Bio in 2024. He was interviewed as an insider industry chemist in the 2019 Canadian-American documentary film <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Toxic Beauty<\/em> about potential exposure to dangerous substances from commonly trusted beauty products such as baby powder.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">After three decades working as a chemist and as a skincare marketer, Batis felt he had a mission to unveil disinformation in skincare. \u201cI couldn\u2019t stop thinking about the gap between what\u2019s implied and what\u2019s real.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 type=\"h3\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"eh0yk8h0 css-17x7qa9 e1pqa4re1\">Keep a daily routine<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3355174\/want-glowing-skin-budget-experts-share-their-top-products-and-routines?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between paid influencers and marketing buzzwords, navigating the pseudoscience in the skincare industry \u2013 with claims such as \u201cdermatologist-approved\u201d and \u201cmedical-grade\u201d \u2013 can be confusing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[635,377,16314,6214,23829,401,6335,75],"class_list":["post-56794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-budget","tag-experts","tag-glowing","tag-products","tag-routines","tag-share","tag-skin","tag-top","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}