What’s with all the detoxes lately? They’ve infiltrated our diets, our minds, our bathtubs, and our skin-care products. If you haven’t embarked on a digital detox, then you may have caught Javon Ford, a cosmetic chemist, as he tries to talk sense to the beauty-obsessed on TikTok and Instagram. His videos are fact-filled and yet addictively watchable, which is an achievement in itself. This month, for Air Mail Look, he analyzes the ubiquity of the detox.

Detoxing the skin is a scam!