Dr. Natasha Cook
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
They either get a bad outcome or they get no results because it was the wrong choice.
So making sure we match...
and understand pathology and get the right technologies.
And sometimes you need several technologies in one sitting, which is what we do.
So we get beautiful, even results.
And I can pick this machine for the lentigos or the fixed sunspots, jalesions.
They might need like a little device that peels them out.
If it's background blotchy pigment, I can use BBL broadband light, which is IPL styles.
If they've got increased vasculature, because usually that will sit in the same areas because vessels grow with UV exposure and damage as well.
I can want vascular so I can do a really comprehensive multimodality treatment to get beautiful even results in their skin.
Well, I mean, this is just extremely subconscious bias, but I use everything I make.
It would be weird if you didn't.
I know.
Well, if I didn't and if I thought something was better, I'd either go and make it or I would stop making things that I actually think are really good for the skin and I've spent 20-something years doing it and I was not just, you know, studying medicine and then getting onto Derm, but I was a victim of the industry.
I did a term in Harvard University in endocrinology in my early 20s and, of course, back then skincare was heaps cheaper and there was more stuff you'd get in the US.
And so I went to Saks in Boston, like, oh, yeah, I'm buying, you know, this cleanser, this toner, this neck cream, this eye cream.
I mean, I'm 21, seriously.
and a neck cream at 21 oh yeah they and the eye cream they sold it all to you i was like okay and it's cheaper here than australia and i guess once then a couple years later when i got into the dermatology training scheme and i was reading wolverton which is an amazing dermatological pharmacology text i was obsessed because i loved the science behind it i'm like wow like
You know, some of these other brands have got these AHA night serums for 200 something dollars, but it's got 0.1% of the fruit acids in it and you need five to 10.
We have a problem.