Common Skincare Myths and Misconceptions

If you flip through the pages of your favorite magazine, you are likely to be offered a ton of beauty and health advice concerning your skin.  However, a lot of the content is highly inaccurate or completely wrong, such as being told that by simply consuming more water, you’ll fix your dry skin.

Some of the misconceptions are listed below:

• There are a number of skincare products on the market that work like temporary dermal fillers or Botox.  It is absolutely impossible for any skincare product on the market to work in the same way as dermal fillers and Botox.

• Age spots or liver spots are simply a sign of getting older.  The words age spot is a misnomer.  The brown freckled discoloration of the skin are not a sign that you are getting older; it is related to external factors related to your lifestyle choices.  Example: smoking or drinking too much.

• People grow out of their acne.  Not every person has acne when they are a teenager will outgrow it and if you were blessed with clear skin when you were younger, there is still no guarantee that you will not suffer with acne later in life.

• Expensive skincare products and cosmetics are much better than cheaper ones.  There are good and bad beauty products in all price categories.  It is the formulation of the product that makes it good.

• Mineral oil is the most dangerous ingredient in skincare products.  It is true that mineral oil is sourced from crude oil, but it is also as natural as any other substance derived from the Earth.  There are a number of common products that come from worrying sound sources but are still safe.

• It is a good sign when your beauty products or cosmetics ‘tingle’ or ‘cool’ the skin.  Many people say when your skin tingles after applying a new beauty product, it means that it is doing its job and its properties are working.

• If you have blackheads, it means you have dirty skin.  A person gets blackheads because of a hormone imbalance and results in the body producing an unnecessary amount of sebum oil.  When this oil is secreted, the dead skin cells can often get in the way, which causes the skin’s pores to become impaired, and as a result the natural passage for the oil is blocked.