We spoke with facialist Sophie Carbonari about the power of touch, why beauty is political and the case for owning the face you have.

A tidy home is a boring home, or so Katie McCrory was taught, growing up in a feminist household where homemaking was seen as a trap for women. In this essay, the writer and researcher traces her journey from inherited distrust of domesticity to an unapologetic obsession with it, asking a deceptively simple question along the way: what is the feeling of home?