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Recent Examples of unguentCosmetics emporium Belizean Breezes Soap Co. sells all-natural unguents for face and body.—Gemma Price, Travel + Leisure, 21 Dec. 2025 All the perfumed unguents and performative rituals of fame are present.—Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025 The first was molecules from embalming ingredients such as oils, waxes and unguents.—Sarah Everts, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025 TikTok has its Get Ready With Mes, where influencers chat over their plethora of skin-nourishing unguents and artful makeup products.—Constance Grady, Vox, 6 June 2024 Nevertheless, our ancestors had some inkling that different substances, when applied as ointments, unguents, or pastes, could protect or heal skin from a range of injuries, including sun damage.—Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024 But the notion of an alien worm producing its own mind-melting unguent doesn’t seem especially bonkers.—Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2024
Innumerable social media posts question doctors’ advice on safe and effective measures like vitamin K and eye ointment.
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Laura Ungar,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Mar. 2026
Other research suggests that parents who decline vitamin K shots are much more likely to refuse getting their newborns the hepatitis B vaccine and an eye ointment to prevent potentially blinding infections.
From masks to serums, balms, tints and exfoliators, lips have never felt or looked so good.
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Tory Johnson,
ABC News,
28 Mar. 2026
The unusual event allows competitors to briefly return to their childhoods, and enjoy doing things they aren’t normally allowed to, said Tahara – a balm for Japan’s grueling work culture.
The end result is a lotion that hydrates while also preventing breakouts and smoothing rough texture over time.
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Hana Hong,
Glamour,
25 Mar. 2026
The most effective formulas pair retinol with the same hydrating ingredients found in a quality body lotion—think ceramides and hyaluronic acid—to maintain moisture while encouraging cell turnover.
However, the cast’s strong relationship has been a salve.
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Kemi Alemoru,
Glamour,
14 Mar. 2026
The Madison has extensive strains of DNA from Redford’s adaptation of The Horse Whisperer, with its emphasis on a rural escape as the ultimate salve for psychic wounds, but also Ordinary People, a film about the impact of grief on the family unit.
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Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Mar. 2026