4 vital ingredients to look for in skincare products
okay so maybe we’ve loosened up a little when it comes to the rules of fashion uh during this time but one thing that we should still be strict about is our skin care except sometimes we don’t always know why why do we need certain ingredients in our products like hyaluronic acid or retinols for example why do we need them so bahar is here to answer all of our questions by taking us to skin care school thank you b super excited to do it i’m more than excited to just like you said either walk skincare newbies through or someone who has a bunch of products but has no idea why they’re using them or what they do so i wanted to start off first obviously by putting on my glasses because we’re going to school here and we’re going to start off with vitamin a and the family name for vitamin a are actually retinoids so what retinoids are are an antioxidant and what antioxidants are because i should explain are battlers against free radicals free radicals like to get in and do all sorts of damage and they like to piggyback on super healthy cells and antioxidants like to come in and tell free radicals to go away put them in their place so as an antioxidant vitamin a is able to help produce collagen it’s a rapid skincare manure and also helped to deals with acne which makes it a superstar so it basically deserves its own television show some of the names you’re going to be looking for are like the most popular we’ve heard of retinol there’s also retinal palmitate and retinaldehyde these are all varying degrees and ingredients to look for and it’s best found in serums moisturizers and oil based products they’re super super cool to find them and then i’m going to suggest best time to use them you can use it at night i think it’s great you can absolutely use it during the day but studies have shown that it tends to break down when exposed to sunlight so maybe it’s just easier to use it at night that’s all i’m saying and heads up yes you need to wear an spf you just have to wear an spf i don’t know how many more times i can tell you to wear an spf so one of the retinols on the market i love right now is from olay this is a retinol 24 night serum so it’s basically telling you what time of day to actually use it it’s non-greasy easily absorbable and you’re going to wake up with that smoother brighter skin with almost no irritation which is why a lot of people stop using a retinol so give it the proper 28 days it’s recommending and it’s going to get you to that smoother brighter looking skin do you know how many students would have enjoyed school more if their teacher was like you bajar you’re a good little teacher okay let’s talk a little bit about vitamin b3 what is it what do we need it for how do we use it okay absolutely it’s yet another antioxidant you’re going to hear me say this word a lot it’s another antioxidant but one of the reasons i love a b3 is that it helps to protect the skin’s barrier function and if you stop and think about what the skin does it is basically holding all of our guts in it is protecting us from the outside world so we should be doing as much as we possibly can to give it the power it needs to protect us right it’s also really good at helping to reduce some redness and inflammation on the skin so names you’re going to want to look for niacinamide niacin as well as sometimes nicotinic acid are some of the forms of vitamin b3 in particular look for this in cleansers essences i think moisturizers serums all good to find your niacinamide or your b3 in and for this you can totally use this day or night i’m going to suggest choose day or night you don’t have to put everything on your skin at every second of the day but because this is usually well tolerated you can totally use this day and night and i have it in a foaming facial cleanser from cerave this has ceramides hyaluronic acid and b3 in it and what that’s going to do is cleanse your skin with a fragrance-free gentle gel formula without stripping that natural barrier function which is super important when it comes to using a cleansing option okay now let’s talk about vitamin c that’s something i take you know in tablet form for colds and to prevent colds and what have you but what about vitamin c in your skin care so this is probably like super popular everyone has heard of vitamin c everyone probably has it in their cabinet or their routine and they’re not really sure why another antioxidant it’s best known for helping to brighten up an uneven skin tone or to give you like the little pigmentation and brown spots we get but it’s also really good at helping with collagen production and all of these in turn can help to lessen fine lines and wrinkles and what you’re looking for are the terms ascorbic acid or l-ascorbic acid sometimes sodium ascorbate and i’m going to suggest find this in a serum and a moisturizer and use it either day or night if you’re using a retinol you do not need to top it off with a vitamin c swap them out this one goes at night this one goes during the day nice and simple and this one from the body shop super straightforward it is their vitamin c boost skin boost serum it has camu camu berry from the amazon and that’s a super high potency of vitamin c found in nature and it’s also formulated with vitamin e which is basically vitamin c’s bff like you see them walking down the hallway together they’re linked arm and arm they play very well together so this one is a really good formulation to go for last certainly not least hyaluronic acid and it is a humectant it is not an antioxidant even though i’ve said that so many times it’s a humectant and it’s actually naturally found in our bodies it can hold its weight up to 1 000 times worth of water so super tiny molecules think of like a liter’s worth of water in a jug it’s super magical very hydrating very soothing look for terms like sodium hyaluronate or hyaluronate sodium sometimes they just swap the words and also highly ronan are some of the words you’re going to look for also look look for this in facial mist essences sheet masks serums moisturizers and that means use it day or night go ahead put them together it’s okay to keep trying to push some hydration into your skin your skin will appreciate it i have two options from dermalogica one is their skin smoothing cream and the other one is their skin hydrating booster this guy is customizable so you can use it on its own or mixed in with a moisturizer this guy has this hydra mesh technology which means he’s going to give you that hydration from like morning to night and beyond so you’re winning with both of these options i know you’re the teacher but you get an a plus for being the scientist that you are and uh describing that so well especially the two friends walking down the hall linking arms i love that thank you oh good lesson
