A new wave of ocean-based beauty products extols the virtues of algae, but is the power in the ingredient or in the marketing?
There's something magical about skin and seaweed. Larch Hanson, who harvests seaweed from a small boat off the rock-ribbed coast of Down East Maine, says everyone who handles laminaria digitata, a species that looks like it has fingers and is a common ingredient in skin-care products, "notices a difference in the way their skin feels."
And that's true whether they've been raking slimy strands of it from icy water or hanging it in drying rooms where the temperature exceeds 100 degrees. "This stuff makes your skin really smooth," says Hanson.
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