The Skin Nerd: Does all of our skincare routines make skin lazy?

In the realm of beauty, there are both short term fixes and long term treatments for essentially any concern you may have. You apply your hyaluronic acid to plump and hydrate, your lactic acid to prompt your skin to exfoliate itself, your ceramides and facial oils to boost your skin’s barrier and so on.

Being a person who prefers preventative measures to corrective fire-fighting, I stand by this as an ideal form of a skincare routine. However, the question is raised by experts time and time again: is do-it-all skincare causing our skin to become lazy?