Dr. Shawana Vali
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
A thousand times its weight in water.
It's amazing.
Best marketing PR campaign there is.
If you have an inflammatory skin condition, if you're acneic and you use hyaluronic acid, you're actually causing more dehydration.
The molecule was too heavy to get down to the medical layer of the skin.
It sits up here and it causes something called trans-epidermal water loss.
It actually dehydrates your skin.
Whereas beta-glucon is a tiny, tiny, tiny speck of hyaluronic acid.
It can go all the way down to the medical layer of the skin and reduces inflammation.
It's anti-inflammatory.
So ingredients are key.
Beta-glucan, yeah.
Which is preferential, especially for my acne patients.
My rosacea patients would turn around and say, my skin is so dry.
I'm like, you're oily.
My skin is so dry.
I'm using all these emollients and moisture.
I'm like, please stop using them.
Yeah, yeah.
Please stop.