Comments on: I Hate These Skincare Products

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 21 May 2021 16:38:02 +0000

When okay regeneration came out it was full of salt which dried your skin and made it feel tight

By: Carlo

Carlo — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 11:21:45 +0000

Really interesting post! I was really surprised about the blue-light protection products lately. I have been checking some of the papers that claim that blue light (visible lower wavelength) but not red light (higher wavelength) causes skin damage. I find surprising how they perform the experiments, in order to properly irradiate the cells in vitro is really important to do it without any liquid (remove all medium or PBS) to generate results that you can trust or reproduce. If you irradiate the cells with medium, it’s possible that the amount of irradiation that arrives to your cells is lower. For this reason, blue light with a lower wavelength has higher penetrance and, maybe just because of that, has an effect in the cells. However, red light with higher wavelength and lower penetrance doesn’t have an effect… and it could be that it is not arriving to the cells at all!
There’s a lot of marketing talking about these products but more good research is needed indeed!

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 09:32:11 +0000

I totally agree with you about this. But I would like to add some other point of view. As long as a moisturizer does the job done and it works perfectly for you, that’s great. But this days, you can find quite a few with some anti aging ingredients or at least that works againts inflammation witch we know it breaks the collagen in the skin. For example I always look after a mix of niacinamide, acetyl glucosamine, gluconalactone, resveratrol, green tea leaf extract, superoxide dismutase, tocopherol,etc. Beside just keeping my skin moisturized it will also defend againts oxidative stress, sun, decreasing the inflammation and at some point decreasing also de hyperpigmentation. Win win.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 00:42:21 +0000

In reply to Markpl. I agree - a lot of the time the people trashing it are selling expensive products. It's a solid, accessible brand.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 00:38:48 +0000

In reply to Diana. How interesting! I'll have a look and see if I can find anything... thanks for bringing them to my attention.

By: Deborah Mercer

Deborah Mercer — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 09:11:07 +0000

I love your work. I must confess, I was tempted into the jade gua sha trend. It fell and broke within a week so that was the end of that. I never even thought of where it was sourced from. Thanks for taking sense!

By: Diana

Diana — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 08:52:37 +0000

Hi Michelle,

For the last few months, I’ve been bombarded with messages on WhatsApp over these 2 brands: Aulora pants (which could fix every health condition but cancer) and Dr Secret’s skincare products (which could zapped pimples and hyperpigmentation into oblivion). I am aware of the use of FIR in therapies but FIR is still very new and more evidence is needed. I work in clinical trials and am a pharmacist by training so naturally, the researcher in me became intrigued about these 2 brands. What frustrates me is that no one has the answers to my questions and any so-called results aren’t backed up by scientific evidence (I can’t find any to back up Aulora pants) yet you get people believing this miracle pants. Needless to say, I could not find any papers written by this so-called Dr. Shimizu from Osaka University who write a paper supporting the use of FIR technology in garments and other therapies. These pants are huge in Asia and marketing has penetrated Australian shores. Would be interesting to get your take on these 2 brands: researcher to researcher.

By: Nat

Nat — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 23:55:16 +0000

Thankyou for having such a refreshing perspective and cutting through the crap (so to speak) Especially during this pandemic where I’ve been prone to falling for claims where common sense should prevail but doesn’t.
And props for mentioning the regulations around crystals and child labour. I admire your ethos and thankyou for your candour.

By: Markpl

Markpl — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 23:17:09 +0000

In reply to Elena.

It’s not like it does nothing for the skin. I think actually that is one of it’s strong points. It’s gentle. If you talk about the moisturizers, Cetaphil moisturizers are good occlusive products and that’s what you want in a moisturizer anyways. It does it’s job, and it’s tolerated well by people. Idk what one could possibly want from a cream – I’ve used literally I think a thousands different potions, creams, serums, toners – and they all did jack shit in the end. Nothing that I ever used in my life blew me away. Only prescription tretinoin, hydroquinone and lasers (ipl, fraxel) and acid peels made a difference to my skin.

By: Elena

Elena — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 20:36:18 +0000

Cetaphil – it has ingredients that are known to, at best, do nothing for skin, and yet many derm/medical clinics hand out or sell it to patients