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The Hack For Making Slugging 10x More Effective — The List
South Korea is known for its skincare world, which is why its beauty secrets are taking over the world. In fact, the immense popularity of Korean beauty brands such as Glow Recipe, Innisfree, and Peach & Lily appear to be expanding rapidly. We’ve learned a lot from K-beauty in recent years, including what glass skin (clear and dewy-looking skin that looks just like glass) and what great skin-makeup hybrids, which are makeup products with skincare benefits, are, per Refinery29.
If you follow K-beauty to its core, you must have heard of slugging: a viral skin hack on TikTok and Instagram. In defining this skincare term, New York-based dermatologist Adarsh Vijay Mudgil told Cosmopolitan, “Slugging, which comes from the K-beauty world and then went viral on Reddit, involves putting a thin layer of Vaseline on your face to help prevent water loss.” In the process, it can also heal your skin if your skin barrier is damaged.
The reason why slugging gives you such amazing skin is that the occlusive forms “a physical barrier” to keep the moisture in and stop loss of hydration that a humectant and emollient can’t do as well. It makes your skin slimy like a slug, hence the term slugging. Furthermore, Dr. Angelo Landriscina told Byrdie, “Petrolatum prevents most water loss while allowing your skin to repair its barrier, leaving it…