When you enter the land of skincare, you’re faced with a choice: Do you prefer scientific performance or natural goodness? Ingredients that claim to repair your cells or herbaceous oils that soothe your skin and your conscience? There you stand at a fork in the road with SkinMedica on your left and True Botanicals on your right. Two separate paths, two entirely different travelers.
It’s very “The Road Not Taken” (quick refresher: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—/I took the one less traveled by”). You could believe one direction to be superior to the other, the way you did in high school English. But eventually you realize that both Robert Frost and cosmetic chemists probably don’t subscribe to that binary. While you’re at it, you may also want to get your head out of the poetry clouds and into something useful, like crypto.
