Dr. Shawana Vali

If it's available here, go to the medical, you need a prescription normally.

For it to work in the reticulodermis, you need a prescription.

Does that make sense?

So everything you're applying topically, and it used to be a lot of silicon-based makeup and silicon gels that could hide the pores and stuff like that.

And a lot of people have gone green in their environment and they've turned around and said green formulation and we want to be natural.

The problem you've got is some natural ingredients aren't going to give you the cellular change that you need.

to work on the fine lines, the open pores, the laxity, the inflammation, that kind of fun stuff.

So you've got to be careful on the ingredients that you're picking.

But what's good in the industry, especially the beauty industry, that they've taken the no nasties out.

So there's been a massive movement in the beauty industry in the last decade

The no nasties list has been cleared out.

And there has been a clean movement, especially with the likes of brands like Sephora and stuff like that, where they've come in with a clean list.

But then there's also a movement where doctors have come in and said, actually, these ingredients work really well in the medical layer of the skin.

But if we can get it to penetrate without being broken down up here, then it's

Amazing.

If it just sits here, it doesn't do anything.

I'll give you an example, hyaluronic acid.

Everyone talks about it.

Hyaluronic acid naturally found in my body.

Oh my God, let me put it in a cereal.