Single Ingredient Beauty Products

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Reading the ingredient labels on beauty products can be like catapulting into a PhD-level chemistry class. Ammonium acryloyldimethyltaurate? Trisodium ethylenediamine disuccinate? We spend all day writing, researching, and thinking about beauty products and most labels still read like complete gibberish.

That might be why a less-is-more beauty philosophy is so damn appealing: since it's not shrouded in mystery and 23-letter chemical compounds, we understand it. We've talked about beauty products with 10 ingredients or less on this site before, but this time we're kicking it up a notch and sharing our favorite products that contain just one ingredient.

Check 'em out, one at a time, ahead.

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