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Dr. Fayne Frey

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The Skincare Hoax & How Measurement Shaped Our World - SYSK Choice

Well, if you want to go over the basic recipe for a good moisturizer, I'm happy to do that. A basic good moisturizer is water-based and there are ingredients in it called humectants. These are ingredients that hold on to water. Ingredients like glycerin, like hyaluronic acid, which is a great humectant. It doesn't penetrate into the skin when you see that marketing like, oh, this is in your skin.

Something You Should Know
The Skincare Hoax & How Measurement Shaped Our World - SYSK Choice

Well, if you want to go over the basic recipe for a good moisturizer, I'm happy to do that. A basic good moisturizer is water-based and there are ingredients in it called humectants. These are ingredients that hold on to water. Ingredients like glycerin, like hyaluronic acid, which is a great humectant. It doesn't penetrate into the skin when you see that marketing like, oh, this is in your skin.

Something You Should Know
The Skincare Hoax & How Measurement Shaped Our World - SYSK Choice

So put hyaluronic acid, it'll decrease your wrinkle. Well, not really. It really just sits on the skin and holds water. A great moisturizer will have occlusives in it, which are ingredients that prevent water from evaporating out of the skin. The most effective one being petrolatum. And you'll see that on the back of an ingredient listing often.

Something You Should Know
The Skincare Hoax & How Measurement Shaped Our World - SYSK Choice

So put hyaluronic acid, it'll decrease your wrinkle. Well, not really. It really just sits on the skin and holds water. A great moisturizer will have occlusives in it, which are ingredients that prevent water from evaporating out of the skin. The most effective one being petrolatum. And you'll see that on the back of an ingredient listing often.

Something You Should Know
The Skincare Hoax & How Measurement Shaped Our World - SYSK Choice

So put hyaluronic acid, it'll decrease your wrinkle. Well, not really. It really just sits on the skin and holds water. A great moisturizer will have occlusives in it, which are ingredients that prevent water from evaporating out of the skin. The most effective one being petrolatum. And you'll see that on the back of an ingredient listing often.

Something You Should Know
The Skincare Hoax & How Measurement Shaped Our World - SYSK Choice

Again, and then you have ingredients that hold these water and oil combinations together. Water and oil don't mix much like your salad dressing. And so you have to have emulsifiers that hold these products together. You'll have some preservative because all these water-based products will turn rancid with mold and bacteria within two weeks if they don't have a preservative.

Something You Should Know
The Skincare Hoax & How Measurement Shaped Our World - SYSK Choice

Again, and then you have ingredients that hold these water and oil combinations together. Water and oil don't mix much like your salad dressing. And so you have to have emulsifiers that hold these products together. You'll have some preservative because all these water-based products will turn rancid with mold and bacteria within two weeks if they don't have a preservative.

Something You Should Know
The Skincare Hoax & How Measurement Shaped Our World - SYSK Choice

Again, and then you have ingredients that hold these water and oil combinations together. Water and oil don't mix much like your salad dressing. And so you have to have emulsifiers that hold these products together. You'll have some preservative because all these water-based products will turn rancid with mold and bacteria within two weeks if they don't have a preservative.

Something You Should Know
The Skincare Hoax & How Measurement Shaped Our World - SYSK Choice

Many times we add fragrance. But a good moisturizer is one that helps you prevent water loss from your skin. And there's a lot of good ones on the market.

Something You Should Know
The Skincare Hoax & How Measurement Shaped Our World - SYSK Choice

Many times we add fragrance. But a good moisturizer is one that helps you prevent water loss from your skin. And there's a lot of good ones on the market.

Something You Should Know
The Skincare Hoax & How Measurement Shaped Our World - SYSK Choice

Many times we add fragrance. But a good moisturizer is one that helps you prevent water loss from your skin. And there's a lot of good ones on the market.

Something You Should Know
The Skincare Hoax & How Measurement Shaped Our World - SYSK Choice

No, like I said, there's no correlation but what you pay per price for a pound and you'll get a great product for $12 for 16 ounces and you'll see other women are paying $500 an ounce. That's a shot glass. That's $8,000 a pound. Mike, can you think of any perishable that you'd even consider spending $8,000 a pound on?

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The Skincare Hoax & How Measurement Shaped Our World - SYSK Choice

No, like I said, there's no correlation but what you pay per price for a pound and you'll get a great product for $12 for 16 ounces and you'll see other women are paying $500 an ounce. That's a shot glass. That's $8,000 a pound. Mike, can you think of any perishable that you'd even consider spending $8,000 a pound on?

Something You Should Know
The Skincare Hoax & How Measurement Shaped Our World - SYSK Choice

No, like I said, there's no correlation but what you pay per price for a pound and you'll get a great product for $12 for 16 ounces and you'll see other women are paying $500 an ounce. That's a shot glass. That's $8,000 a pound. Mike, can you think of any perishable that you'd even consider spending $8,000 a pound on?

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The Skincare Hoax & How Measurement Shaped Our World - SYSK Choice

Well, I guess that depends on what you call reduce or improve wrinkles. If it's a temporary hydration, so if you have a raisin and you pump water into it, you get a grape temporarily. I'll ask you, is that anti-wrinkle?

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The Skincare Hoax & How Measurement Shaped Our World - SYSK Choice

Well, I guess that depends on what you call reduce or improve wrinkles. If it's a temporary hydration, so if you have a raisin and you pump water into it, you get a grape temporarily. I'll ask you, is that anti-wrinkle?

Something You Should Know
The Skincare Hoax & How Measurement Shaped Our World - SYSK Choice

Well, I guess that depends on what you call reduce or improve wrinkles. If it's a temporary hydration, so if you have a raisin and you pump water into it, you get a grape temporarily. I'll ask you, is that anti-wrinkle?

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The Skincare Hoax & How Measurement Shaped Our World - SYSK Choice

it's anti-raisin it's okay it's it's a temporary improvement so if you have dry skin and and that means there's low water content and you put on a product that prevents water from evaporating and the water is in water content of the skin goes up and the skin looks optimal it's temporary right because that that product's going to wear off and water is going to evaporate again you can have an improvement in the appearance of the skin in over 30 years of testing products cosmetic moisturizers

Something You Should Know
The Skincare Hoax & How Measurement Shaped Our World - SYSK Choice

it's anti-raisin it's okay it's it's a temporary improvement so if you have dry skin and and that means there's low water content and you put on a product that prevents water from evaporating and the water is in water content of the skin goes up and the skin looks optimal it's temporary right because that that product's going to wear off and water is going to evaporate again you can have an improvement in the appearance of the skin in over 30 years of testing products cosmetic moisturizers

Something You Should Know
The Skincare Hoax & How Measurement Shaped Our World - SYSK Choice

it's anti-raisin it's okay it's it's a temporary improvement so if you have dry skin and and that means there's low water content and you put on a product that prevents water from evaporating and the water is in water content of the skin goes up and the skin looks optimal it's temporary right because that that product's going to wear off and water is going to evaporate again you can have an improvement in the appearance of the skin in over 30 years of testing products cosmetic moisturizers