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How to Read a Cosmetics Ingredient List

Latin names, the order things are listed in, and what a single word like “fragrance” can stand for.

A summer fruit of the bushveld, and the small kernels inside its stone.

One from a savanna nut, one from cacao beans: where they come from, and why one is soft and one is hard.

Why bars go soft, and the few habits that keep one going for weeks longer.

The back of the pack tells you more than the front. Here’s where to look.