It's Not Your Skin. Your Creams Physically Can't Get In.
The collagen in almost every cream, from La Mer to the $80 retinol serum, is about 300,000 daltons. Your skin absorbs nothing over 500. It's a basketball trying to fit through a keyhole.
So it sits on the surface and evaporates. You haven't been failing at skincare. You've been moisturizing the air above your sink.
