This column features weekly tips and advice from a revolving cast of industry leaders, on hand to discuss your beauty dilemmas, from blemishes to Botox. To submit a question, e-mail celia_ellenberg@condenast.com.
I’ve heard that drinking tap water is actually preferable to bottled water, in order to benefit from the minerals that are filtered out of the [...]

This column features weekly tips and advice from a revolving cast of industry leaders, on hand to discuss your beauty dilemmas, from blemishes to Botox. To submit a question, e-mail celia_ellenberg@condenast.com.
Are chewing gums that claim to whiten your teeth really effective or just a marketing ploy?
The biggest gain to chewing gum is increasing the flow [...]

Like L’Oréal Paris’ Elnett and the equally French Embryolisse, Elgydium toothpaste has been haunting the dreams of Francophile beauty junkies confined to American soil for years. With limited availability stateside, these products frequently wind up as things-to-bring-back-from-Paris requests passed on to friends headed to the City of Light. Elnett took up residence at Target last [...]

There is a magical place on the Upper East Side where Chinese acupressure and an all-organic mineral “gum mask” are considered part of a teeth cleaning—the same wince-inducing procedure that typically evokes memories of bad fluorescent lighting and Styrofoam fluoride trays that are their own special brand of torture. Calling this advancement in dentistry the [...]