Skin care is a dynamic industry. New concepts and products appear every once in a while, but are they really [new]?
In fact, the raw materials of skin care products are not updated so fast. For example, the [glycerin] ingredient has been used for more than 100 years.
However, consumers always like fresh things, so many businesses will rack their brains to package some new skin care concepts to attract attention.
For those products with broken cowhide, we must be rational and follow the trend of buying, which not only wastes money, but also may spoil our faces.
As an honest formula maker, I would like to tell you today about the authenticity of the popular skin care concepts on the market.
Deep water replenishment?
Deep hydration is often heard in advertisements, such as: let skin drink enough water……
An upright formulator tells you: Deep hydration? But pull it down!
Our skin, except the stratum corneum on the surface, is never short of water in the deep layer.
Because all this water comes from subcutaneous tissue, 70% of which is water and does not need to be supplemented by the outside world.
Besides, if you want to make it up, you can’t make it up.
However, some people will say: My skin is really dry and even molting. How can I solve it?
In fact, this has nothing to do with moisturizing. The main reason is that the skin barrier is damaged. Pay attention to gentle facial cleaning and give priority to repair. Choose some skin care products containing ceramide, cholesterol and natural moisturizing factors to solve the problem.
Replenishing water is only to moisten the stratum corneum, and it is more important to lock the water with moisturizing ingredients.
Snake venom/bee venom skin care products?
Also don’t know why, recently there are many skin care products with [poison] as gimmicks, such as snake venom facial mask, bee venom eye mask, etc.
An honest formulator tells you: Do you want to use poison to attack poison? Don’t be so desperate about your skin.
The first thing to tell you is: absolutely non-toxic.
The so-called snake venom bee venom, 80% is some bionic polypeptide, inspired by snake venom bee venom re-synthetic. If you buy a regular product, it does have some anti-aging and wrinkle-removing functions, but the polypeptide is not so divine, and the common anti-aging products are not much different.
If you are buying the products of unscrupulous merchants, then what may not have put them away either, borrowing a concept to cheat you of money.
Oral collagen?
Oral administration of collagen has been popular for many years. Although rumors continue to be refuted, many consumers still go forward to buy it.
An honest formulator tells you: Take collagen orally and don’t try to mend it to your face.
Collagen eaten from the belly will be decomposed, and after being absorbed as nutrient elements, it may not be combined into collagen to act on the face accurately.
It is not possible to apply collagen directly. Collagen is a [macromolecular] structure, and the channels on human skin are very small. Collagen applied on the face is basically impossible to be absorbed by the epidermis.
In addition, oral administration of pearl powder, resveratrol and grape seed essence is also unreliable.
Stem cell skin care products?
99.9% of stem cell products are unreliable, and those that are reliable will not use these three words for publicity.
Honest formulators tell you: No cell can survive in skin care products, let alone stem cells.
The so-called stem cells are some differentiated cells existing in the skin. Once the skin is lost, they can be quickly repaired.
The animal stem cells and plant stem cells advertised in some products are just some common extracts. There is no such thing as [cells]. Even if there is stem cell extract, it is different from the stem cells in your skin.
Therefore, seeing the word “stem cells”, I think rational consumers can immediately put down their products and wash and sleep.
Placenta element/umbilical cord blood essence?
Originally, there was a concept of placenta hormone, which was scary enough. As soon as umbilical cord blood came out, it was immediately compared.
An honest formula maker tells you: Don’t try this indescribable ingredient. It is risky.
It is said that a Japanese umbilical cord blood essence product has become popular among friends and claims that what’s skin problems can be solved.
For this reason, I also went to pick up this company. It has only been established for 7 years and its scale is not large. Can it complete talent introduction, technology accumulation and product research and development in such a short time? I can only ha ha.
In fact, whether it is umbilical cord blood or placenta hormone, the effective components of such products are unknown, the batch stability is poor, and there may be virus pollution and harmful hormones.
Therefore, for these new and strange products, there is also a strange effect of legend [the skin will be much better the next day], and we advise everyone to grow grass carefully.