Credible — we acted
Carotone failed a lab test. Here is what was in the bottle.
Prescription-strength hydroquinone in all three products. None of it was on the label.
Our Two Cents
Heard something about your skin? Let's check the receipts.
Short answers to claims travelling on social — what the science says about the claim itself, and what it changes on our shelf. Every entry is signed.
Awareness
A dark line running down a nail shows up more often on melanated skin, and it's almost always completely normal.
Here's why it's still worth knowing about: there's a melanoma subtype that can look nearly the same.
Myth
The lemon and baking soda neck paste is a middle school volcano project happening on your body.
Your skin runs acidic on purpose. Scrubbing it with a base doesn't lighten anything — it starts a fight your neck loses.