Welcome to The Holistic Skin Guru, where what's on the surface is

just as important as what's underneath. I'm your host, Amina.

Let's dive deep into the world of holistic skincare. Hi

guys and welcome back to another episode of

the podcast. Today we're going to be talking about myths around

skincare and there are so many myths I'll probably won't get through all

of them but I will definitely try. So one

of the myths that we came across was more

products equal better results. I'm

going to say that Instagrammers are the ones that have perpetrated

this particular myth because you see so

many people, you know, dripping this and dripping that

onto their skin. And first of all, they're wasting product because they're using

so much of it. You only really need like, you know, one

little drop. You don't need that much for your face. More

products equals better results? Not necessarily. we

like to keep it simple and you need to get a

professional skin diagnosis or professional

skin consultation so you know what's going on in your skin

so that we can tailor the products that you use

at home to what's going on in your skin. Now this makes more

sense, it makes complete sense to me and I can never understand

why people self-prescribe and then go round and round

and round in circles trying to fix something that they

clearly don't know how to fix and you know someone said

the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and

expecting different results Ditch everything,

come and see a professional and let us guide you. That's

what we're here for. Use us, use our knowledge and

let us give you the best advice for your skin tailored

for you. So more products doesn't equal better results. A

lot of people seem to think that expensive products are

better. And yes, we've been obviously marketed

to believe that. And in some cases, ingredients are

more expensive. The better ingredients are more expensive. And so you

pay a little bit extra for really good product, but it

doesn't have to cost the earth. And I watched something recently,

so don't quote me on this, but they went back to a product which

is a very high marketing product, a very

big brand, global brand. I won't use

any names here. But what they did was actually broke down the

ingredients of that particular product. And they

found that these ingredients are all very cheap

ingredients readily available. And it just didn't make

sense to the high price tag. I think one bottle was

like 200 and something dollars. And it made absolutely no sense. And it

was like a 30 mil bottle. So People like us,

we understand the ingredients, we understand how

it works in the skin. So when you come to us, we're looking

at the ingredient technology and how to give you the best results. So,

you know, expensive is not always the answer to

a better product. Sometimes brands

use their elite status to mark up

the price and make more profit. So by coming to

a skincare clinic with people who have been

trained and have the knowledge in the skincare that

they are prescribing, you are better off getting sound

advice that way. Now, hyaluronic acid, this is one

of my favorite ingredients to use, but some people seem to

think it's a miracle ingredient that can cure anything, and

it isn't. Hyaluronic acid is actually used

as a way to hydrate the skin. It naturally forms

in our skin anyway. Our extracellular matrix in our skin manufactures

hyaluronic acid in the forms that we need it.

However, hyaluronic acid, when it's synthetically produced

can be made in different weights and strengths. And

this is where there's a price disparity. So you

can buy an off the chemist shelf product with hyaluronic

acid in it and it's quite cheap. And then you can go and buy

another product with hyaluronic acid and it's very expensive because that

hyaluronic acid is in a different, it's constructed differently, it's

in a different weight. And the only way to explain this

is like, when you go to buy a set of sheets, you know, if

you go to Kmart and you get a 400 thread

count set of sheets, cotton sheets, they

serve the purpose, they do the job. And then you

go to David Jones and you buy a thousand thread count

Egyptian cotton sheet set, which is more luxurious. It

feels nicer. It probably will last a lot longer, wash

better. Still the same thing. They're both sheet sets,

they're both cotton, but one's a better quality than the

other. And this is the same for hyaluronic acid. It comes

in different qualities, different weights, different strengths. And

something important for you guys to know is that hyaluronic acid holds a

thousand times its weight in water. So when

it's used in skincare, it needs to be used

correctly. And a lot of people don't understand this and they

use their hyaluronic acid serums incorrectly. So

what they're doing is they're applying it to a dry skin. And

because hyaluronic acid is looking for water, it starts

to dry the skin out because it's looking for that water to

pull in and it's trying to grab moisture from everywhere and

it counteracts and starts drying the skin out.

So when you apply hyaluronic acid to your skin, try to

apply it with damp hands because what that's going to do is

it's going to draw the water lipids into the skin and you're

actually going to be using that serum a lot better for you

and you're going to find that the hydration levels are a lot higher.

So hyaluronic acid is an amazing ingredient that has to

be used correctly. It definitely is only for hydration. You're

not going to be able to cure pigmentation or acne with

hyaluronic acid. So it's not this miracle ingredient for

everything. It is a miracle ingredient for hydration though.

People seem to be over-exfoliating and

over-cleansing their skin, thinking that this is what's gonna give

them a glow and make their skin look healthy. All

you're doing by over-cleansing and over-exfoliating is

aggravating your skin, and you're creating an unhealthy

skin, so you're actually stripping the natural oils

from the skin and irritating your skin. Our skin is

naturally acidic, It has a pH balance that's

naturally acidic. It sits at about 7.5. We

want to make sure that we keep that barrier function operating

the way it was meant to. And by stripping everything

off the skin, all we're doing is compromising that barrier and

allowing for other things to happen. So, you know, the skin

will become inflamed. You'll feel sensitive. It

just won't function like it's meant to. If you

have an oily complexion, generally people with oilier skins

like myself need to exfoliate once one

to two times a week and maybe in the summer months three times a

week and then cut back in the winter months when you're not producing

as much oil. Oil is good. What we

want to do when we're cleansing is we want to get rid of all the dirt and

the grime and the excess oil that our skin

is producing. We don't want to take away all the good oils from

our skin, which keeps our skin nice and supple and

young and beautiful. When our skin dries out, that's the

first stage of aging. So we want to keep away

from drying our skin out because a dry skin becomes

crepey. A crepey skin becomes fine

lines. Fine lines become deeper lines and deep set wrinkles.

So that's why we want to make sure that our skin stays

nice and hydrated and we don't strip all our natural oils off

our skin. So there are no quick fixes, unfortunately. We

wanna make sure that we look after the pH balance

of our skin and keep everything working the

way it should be. One of the things you need

to consider is making your skincare regime

very simple. You need a cleanser, you need a

serum, you need a moisturizer, a good retinol for

your evening regimen, and a very

good sunscreen to protect your skin from the UV rays.

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