5 SKIN CARE MYTHS debunked| Dr Dray
well hey guys in today’s video I’m gonna be covering five skincare myths stuff I hear all the time or read on the interwebs and I’m just like no no so let’s clarify some things myth number one steam is good for opening up pores that is false here’s here’s the thing pores are not doors they do not open and close steaming the face or fate or the steam from your shower it actually can irritate your skin a lot when you steam the skin you’re basically just exposing it to water that water then condenses onto the surface of the skin and then evaporates out and can dry out your skin and lead to irritation so the trend of steaming I have a video on why facial steaming is not not a great idea but the idea that you need to steam to open your pores and clean them out bogus bogus bogus bogus you know there are a few situations few skin conditions and issues for which steam actually can be helpful things where you have a lot of crusty build-up can benefit from either a compress to soak them to get them super saturated with water make it easier to debride and slough off but for the average person out there this is not helpful or necessary and the facial steamer thing yeah it’s not something that I recommend especially if you use things like topical retinoids or salicylic acid benzoyl peroxide acne medications the steaming thing can make those ingredients a heck of a lot more irritating and problematic and cause issues for for you so I yeah steaming and no and just you know anytime people are talking about this will open up your pores now myth number two is surrounding jar packaging always get questions about this is it safe to use moisturizers that are in jars because isn’t there a risk that we’re going to contaminate them by putting our finger in there no they have preservatives in them that are biocides that kill off any potential pathogenic bacteria things like parabens help to prevent that so no you don’t have to worry about jar packaging moisturizers are more than fine in jar packaging I don’t know why why people would think otherwise and I you know I think it’s kind of an agenda against drug store stuff in favor of selling you more expensive stuff and those godforsaken little dropper bottles I can’t with those yeah I mean nothing against those I have several skincare products that are in dropper bottles but it’s like yeah I mean jars are fine jars are fine myth number three your skin gets used to certain ingredients false that is false I hear this all the time do I need to switch up my skincare products because my skin is going to get used to using particular moisturizer no not at all the only reason to change up your skincare products is because as the seasons change or as you change with age you know sometimes your skin maybe needs a heavier moisturizer or a more lightweight moisturizer maybe you would benefit from some acne control using a product with acne active ingredients against acne but no it’s not because your skin gets used to it here’s the thing your epidermis the top layer of your skin where all these products are going and whatnot it turns over every roughly every 28 28 days it turns over faster and babies and as we get older it takes a little bit longer but it turns over so this idea that your skin gets used to it it’s like every 20 28 28 days there’s new there are different skin cells seeing the product so nobody’s getting used to anything there is one in one set of ingredients that the skin can become get used to this is a phenomenon known as tachyphylaxis Kentucky coal access is some that I was always taught was specific to topical steroids I have observed it a few times but here’s the thing another dermatologists actually debunked kind of the phenomenon a tachyphylaxis are looked into it more in a different light and show that really a lot of times we think the steroids are no longer working but the truth is that patient stops using them he actually did this by looking at things like a refill pattern on the prescription steroids and he had like he had like some kind of device where he could measure how many times a patient opened the bottle and whatnot so he actually showed that a lot of cases it’s not so much that the steroid stops working it’s a patient stop using the ingredient or they stop using them as they’re supposed to and really what that showed us as dermatologists is that a lot of times we might think the steroids not working but we would need to revisit with the patient if they’re actually using it go over how to use it and what not so even even that one exception seems to not even be as big of a deal as maybe we think it is but long story short no your skin does not get used to ingredients and then the other topical ingredient that I guess you could make an argument for this it’s not the skin getting used to it but the bacteria getting used to it is topical antibiotics clindamycin every through myosin these are antibiotics that kill bacteria and there is a risk with long term use of topical antibiotics that the bacteria on your skin become resistant to them like become like superbugs so to speak no longer respond to the killing effect of these antibiotics that is a risk with long term use of topical antibiotics but that’s the bacteria it’s not your skin myth number four moisturizers are going to make your skin lazy and no longer produce its own natural moisturizing factors no that is false I don’t know where this came from why people say this I have another video kind of talking about it more in depth but it’s absolutely a myth as we get more mature or with certain skin issues or skin conditions the skin is Pro more it becomes more prone to losing water the skin barrier is not as tight so to speak if we’re using ingredients or products that irritate our skin that can compromise the skin barrier and make us more likely to have dry dry skin that’s burned into even more irritation moisturizers helped us they helped clue our skin into making its own natural moisturizing factors again things like urea ceramides these are moisturizing ingredients that kind of can help your skin biology and wake up and do what it’s supposed to do again moisturizers also have ingredients to help seal in water into the skin and keep it hydrated but your skin is not going to become lazy from using moisturizers I mean like again you have a different set of skin cells looking at these ingredients every 28 days roughly so yeah I mean the idea that your skin will become lazy it just doesn’t make sense and there’s zero evidence to support this claim and yeah I mean as we mature our skin naturally stops making as much in terms of moisturizing factors and whatnot and using a moisturizer it’s helpful you think a moisturizer is not a cure for that so yeah when you stop using the moisturizer your skin will get dry again but like it’s not like it’s not like your skin got lazy from using the moisturizer that is a complete myth myth number five in the final myth medical grade is the only skincare that is worth it and that can actually work whoo that is a huge myth let me tell you guys this medical-grade is a type of marketing it’s a type of marketing of really expensive skincare products priced to be expensive not because of what they contain necessarily but because of how they are going to be marketed they’re going to be marketed to a active audience seeking skincare advice from a professional like a a dermatologist so a dermatologist is akin to an influencer in the realm of medical grade skincare and so it’s not as though the products are any different and a lot of products that are quote medical-grade skin care and they are owned by companies that have the same type of products in the drugstore like L’Oreal for example skin suta Kohl’s super expensive but L’Oreal also is La Roche Posay and CeraVe and so if you go into the drugstore you can find the majority of these products with these ingredients in them for a fraction of the price they’re just not being sold to you by a professional your dermatologist or an aesthetician for example I mean that’s a pretty bold claim if you think about it because medical grade skincare just like drugstore skincare it’s a cosmeceutical so it’s not under any kind of regulatory oversight as far as demonstrating efficacy there it’s not as though their head-to-head trials that compare a medical grade moisturizer to a drugstore moisturizer yeah this is all marketing I mean there was a study that actually showed that consumers were more likely to buy products that were labeled a dermatologist recommended and that with those those lit that labeling without marketing the there was a corresponding increase in the price point in comparison to products that didn’t have that marketing and people were more likely to buy it that being said I do put a lot of stock in bigger companies that have a large a large research and development department team whatever you want to call it and actually present their studies ID during meetings I do tend to have more confidence in those brands because they’re actually showing their data and at meetings and things I mean I take the data with a grain of salt because it is an industry study but I do tend to have more confidence in them because I know they have large research and development teams and they put a lot of effort into R&D and I especially have more confidence in bigger companies that have been doing skincare for a long long long time and you know and you know have more of a track record but not all of these companies that I’m talking about her medical grade Johnson & Johnson L’Oreal gal derma you know they they all have their hands in the drugstore market and so I have a lot of confidence in these brands more so over just kind of fly-by-night indie brands that I’m not so sure due diligence by their ingredients like these larger corporations do that have big teams of scientists that spend all day looking at these ingredients so that’s kind of I guess where I would draw the line with saying medical grade skincare is no different it’s not that you have to go for the medical grade marketing but yeah I do believe there is a difference in the quality of ingredients from different brands and but it doesn’t mean you have to pay top dollar for that quality those those brands that are doing the diligence buy the ingredients they’re available in the drugstore yeah those are five myths here a lot but comment below and if there any more myths that you guys would like me to bust or talk about you know I I hear a lot more but these are the five that just came to my mind this morning and I thought I would chitchat with you guys about I hope you enjoyed this video if so give it a thumbs up share with your friends and as always don’t forget sunscreen and subscribe I’ll talk to you guys tomorrow bye
