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Macrobiotics: The learning of prolonging life with diet or other ingested substances.

Malic Acid: A glycolic acid derived from apples, cherries, grapes etc.

Mallow: A softening agent prepared from plants that helps reduce inflammation, age lines, and eye swelling.

Matt: A non-shiny surface that takes up light.

Melanin: It is the black pigment found in hair or skin. The dark-skinned people have more melanin than light-skinned people.

Melanoma: A type of skin cancer differentiated by a black or dark brown pigmented tumor. It is the most serious, life-threatening form of skin cancer.

Microdermabrasion: A treatment that involves a device that smoothly sloughs the dead skin cells while removing them. Microdermabrasion uses a kind of sand to abrade the skin, generally done by an esthetician or a cosmetic doctor. Cosmetic physicians can make a deeper type of dermabrasion by means of small burrs or wires to remove the outer layers of the skin.

Mineral: A natural, inorganic substance.

Mineral Oil: Highly refined petroleum.

Moisturizer: A product that will keep moisture in the skin, or bring moisture to the skin. In other words it is an emollient cream used to hydrate skin.