I remember locking myself in the bathroom on a breezy morning during a family vacation at Lake Wallenpaupack in the Pocono Mountains. At the time, I had an almost one-year-old and had just stopped breastfeeding. For the first time in what felt like a very long time, I wasn’t pregnant or breastfeeding and I could finally drink as mothers are intended to do on vacation. In my mind, I could also go back to using my favorite skincare products, which I decided to pause on when I found out I was pregnant with my daughter for the first time circa 2015. I was a first time mom and extremely cautious about what I was putting in and on my body.
