Do I Need a Facial Cleansing Brush?

This column first ran in Valerie Monroe’s newsletter, How Not to F*ck Up Your Face, which you can subscribe to on Substack.

Q: Recently, I read a post in the New York Times about a facial scrubber and wondered what you know about using manual tools like these? I’m 61-years-old and I used the old school Buf-Puf in my youth, then a mechanical tool. I try not to use the walnut-shell-scrub creams (just for elbows). For a long while...