Maya Faour

Maya Faour is the founder and sole writer of Glow Simplified, an independent skincare education platform. Frustrated by an industry that profits from confusion, she built a structured ingredient knowledge base scored by one transparent method: every ingredient gets the same 0-10 scores, the same evidence grading, and a verdict produced by fixed rules rather than sponsorship. The site's free tools — an ingredient glossary with accurate molecular structures, a conflict checker, and side-by-side comparisons — are used to answer the questions people actually search: can I mix these, which one should I choose, is this safe in pregnancy. She is not a dermatologist and says so on every page; her lane is honest synthesis of the evidence, in plain English. An architect by training and a certifie...