Alex Clark

As a 90s kid, which is what I am, most of my audience is, anytime that we got hurt or scraped up, we were told, you got to put Neosporin on it.

What do we know now about a product like Neosporin that we didn't know then?

When we use antibiotics on things that don't necessarily need them, what does that do to us?

What would be the downside of using products that have petroleum in them?

Yeah.

And I didn't really know any of that.

I mean, I grew up in a Neosporin household.

That's all we used.

I had no idea that there were alternatives at all.

And I had no idea that that was just slathering on more chemicals in an open wound.

And you're basically just allowing those chemicals to just enter your bloodstream.

There's also this ingredient called neomycin in Neosporin.

And I guess it's what you're talking about, which is one of the top allergens in the United States.

So what is happening on kids that when we're putting that on their cuts, what's happening to kids?

What happens to our skin microbiome when we are constantly putting antibiotics on it?

Do you think that most people when they're shopping down the medicine aisle or the first aid aisle at Target know any of this?

What would be a non-toxic or clean ingredient alternative to petroleum-based ointments?

And the main ingredient that's in active skin repair is this thing called hypochlorous acid.

So what the heck is that in plain English?

I mean, it sounds like bleach.