Did you know that tons of your favorite beauty products are loaded with algae? The green, slimy gunk--which ranges in size from single cell organisms to giant sea kelp--has tons of potential benefits for your skin. One says that algae can stabilize minerals that aid in skin moisturization," Randy Schueller, a cosmetic chemist and editor-in-chief of The Beauty Brains told me. And yet another type of seaweed may help with skin lightening. No, truly. Algae, often interchangeably called seaweed, has been a hot topic lately in the cosmetics ingredient world.

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Algae is already commonly used in cosmetics, skin care , and a bunch of other industries as a thickening agent. But now, certain types of algae—like spirulina—are being treated like trendy ingredients that can supposedly bring big benefits including the possibility of an algae-derived sunscreen! But before we let ourselves get too excited, we spoke to a few experts to figure out if the science actually backs up these claims.