Gabe Saporta, who fronts the dance-pop band Cobra Starship and heads indie record label TAG Music, recalls one of the coolest guys in New York’s music scene getting roasted mercilessly more than a decade ago after posting a selfie with severely chapped lips.

Beauty is being injected with med-spa marketing. Read a recently launched topical skincare product description page today and you may feel like you’re researching an aesthetic procedure rather than a serum.

While many in the beauty industry have pushed back against clean beauty and the removal of long-used ingredients like parabens and phthalates, Skin at Peace is moving in the opposite direction with a hyper-clean philosophy centered on freshly made skincare products with short…