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Spoiler: The science doesn't care about price tags. Somewhere along the way, silicones and PEGs became dirty words. Scroll through any "clean beauty" blog and you'll find dimethicone treated like it crawled out of a chemical waste plant. PEGs? Apparently they're contaminated nightmares that have no business touching your precious skin. And yet. Open a jar of La Mer's $380 Crème de la Mer  and you'll find cyclopentasiloxane, phenyl trimethicone, and dimethicone staring right back at you. Flip...

What Is Lanolin, Exactly? Lanolin is a substance secreted by sheep's sebaceous glands. It isn't technically a fat but a complex wax made of high-molecular-weight esters of fatty acids and alcohols, sterols, and related compounds. This structure makes it chemically stable and capable of retaining water. Lanolin closely resembles the natural lipids in human skin's outer barrier. Because of this similarity, skin accepts it not as a foreign film, but as a temporary patch to help restore its own...