Our skin can do some miraculous things, like heal wounds and tell us when it’s too cold, too hot, or too painful—but it also moonlights as a security system both by controlling what’s allowed inside you and letting you know when something’s not right.

Before having children, every parent daydreams about who they’ll be as a parent. It’s hard to have zero expectations for yourself—after all, child rearing is an extremely important job, and it is one every parent wants to excel at.

Whether you’re trying to get pregnant or looking to entertain and educate your kiddo, there are an overwhelming number of apps on the market. While it can be hard to separate the wheat from the chaff—we’ve tried tons of parenting apps that did absolutely nothing but try to sell us random stuff—here are a few that we’ve found to be genuinely worth the download.

Reading a skincare label can be overwhelming. Some ingredients with unpronounceable, scary-sounding names turn out to be a moisturizing plant seed oil, while innocuous-seeming ingredients, like “fragrance,” are often packed with some truly terrifying unknowns.