Community
Skin, K-beauty, Korea trips and the beauty industry — ask and share
Vegetarian in Korea: the hidden ingredients to ask about
Vegetarian and vegan travellers often say Korea is doable but trickier than it looks, because many dishes that seem vegetable-only are not. Hidden ingredients people warn about Anchovy or meat stock in soups, stews and n
0 0Do you wear sunscreen every day, even in winter?
Everyone remembers it in summer, but when the weather turns cloudy and cold, we often skip sunscreen. Quite a bit of UVA still gets through in winter, and snow increases reflection, too.
Poll
Winter sunscreen, honestly
Pick one to see the results
0 1Jjimjilbang 101: how to do a Korean sauna like a local
A jjimjilbang (찜질방) is a Korean bathhouse and sauna — part spa, part hangout. Scrubs, hot rooms, cold drinks, and yes, eggs cooked in the sauna.
0 4Sunscreen labels no longer show filter percentages? What changed in Taiwan
On Taiwan's PTT forum (BeautySalon board), someone noticed in a drugstore that the new version of Mentholatum's ACNES sunscreen primer lists its UV filters but not their concentrations, and newer batches of Biore sunscre
0 1A Korean-style brunch in Seoul, not eggs Benedict: where do you go?
On the Tripadvisor Seoul forum, a visitor asked for brunch cafés around Itaewon, but not the Western kind. Everything they found online was omelettes, toast and eggs Benedict. What they wanted was a light Korean meal tha
0 0Princess packaging, witch concepts, fruit tubes: miss "old K-beauty"?
A nostalgic post in r/AsianBeauty from a Korean user who grew up with these brands. They miss the K-beauty of around 2012–2013: Skinfood's fruit-shaped hand creams and food theme, cupcake lip balms, Etude's princess look
0 1Tiny white bumps that will not budge: how do people deal with milia?
A Mumsnet user asked about getting milia removed. Clinics near her were quoting £85 and up, and she wondered whether salons still deal with them during a facial, as they did twenty years ago. There were 18 replies, with
0 1Is the curly hair method a con, or does it just need tweaking?
An October 2025 Mumsnet 'Am I being unreasonable?' thread drew 164 replies. The poster has frizzy, fine hair that she straightened for years; straightened, it now looks flat and ageing, and left to dry naturally it turns
0 1