This column first ran in Valerie Monroe’s newsletter, How Not to F*ck Up Your Face, which you can subscribe to on Substack. Q: Recently, I read a post in the New York Times about a facial ...

When the fine powder is mixed with water, it turns into a paste that you slather on your skin for both physical and chemical exfoliation. Unlike the St. Ives Apricot scrub of my youth, this doesn ...