Posts tagged Glossary

Quick Definition – Royal Jelly

Royal Jelly is produced by honey bees to feed larvae intended to become worker bees. Sounds simple enough, but better than that, when a queen bee is needed, the “chosen” larva is fed nothing but mass quantities of royal jelly, which makes it turn into a queen and grow ovaries. Hence the name Royal Jelly. [...]


Definition – Peptide

A peptide is a chain of protein molecules which acts as a messenger working in your body. In relation to our skin, this means that peptides transmit information back and forth between the dermis (the deeper tissue level of your skin) and the epidermis (the surface of your skin). Basically, peptides tell the inner levels [...]


Beauty Glossary

Is your head spinning with beauty terms? Don’t know what an antioxidant is? Need a definition of beta hydroxy acid? What exactly is a blackhead?! Find out all the answers with our very own beauty term glossary!