Why You Should Not Use A Rejuvenating Product
One of the hype skincare products in the Philippines are the rejuvenating skincare sets. These rejuvenating sets will give you a glassy glowing kind of skin. One of their famous tagline, if you want to achieve the Korean glass skin look then you must try to use a rejuvenating kit. Another reason as to why it is also popular in the country is because of the purpose of whitening the skin. Just like any other Asian countries, having a white skin here in the Philippines means you are physically attractive.
Those rejuvenating products are sold by set. They are packed inside a box where you will find a soap, a toner, bleaching whitening cream and a sunblock gel cream. The prices of the beauty products are ranging from $5/ 300 php- $10/ 500 php. Those products are meant to exfoliate your skin by removing the outer dead skin cells and renewing it. One of the prominent products sold in those line are the rejuvenating toner. It contains an ethyl alcohol as the number one primary ingredient and that is already used as a disinfectant by other people. Next is the Hydroquinone which is used as a skin bleaching or whitening. It also contain Tretinoin as an elimination of wrinkles and for making your skin younger.
Why is it bad to use a rejuvenating products when they are used by many people? Here's why:
The climate
Philippines is a tropical country where the temperature heat could go up to 50° c. Using harsh products containing Hydroquinone and Tretinoin while being exposed under the sun could probably burn your skin. There are many users who already gotten a skin burn. It is because these products were removing the outer layer of your skin in the process of exfoliation. So during that time, your skin is really very sensitive under the heat of the sun and you are prone of getting melasma.
It damages your skin barrier
We all have our own natural skin protective barrier that protects our skin from bacterias and toxins. However, when using too much drying and harsh products from those Rejuvenating kits, it strips off your natural skin barrier by thinning it down. The more you use those kinds of products, the more your skin will become sensitive in the long run. Thus, you are prone for many skin infections.
Skin care products only solve 10% of our skin problems
Skincare only solve 10% of our skin problems because the 90% are solve internally. We shouldn't rely the health of our skin based on the products we are using because most of them are doing the opposite of what we are expecting. They only damage our skin instead of helping it become better. Skincare only mask up the symptoms but they are not the cure. Having a strong skin barrier means you have a healthy skin.
It doesn't glow your skin, it's only a part of marketing strategy
Filipinos are a big fan and admirer of Korean dramas and idols. As we admire and support them, we also envy the goodness and beauty of their skin. This is how the beauty market found the best strategy to capture every Filipinos interest into the world of skincare. By promising that our skin will become glowing and glassy once we use those rejuvenating products but in reality there is no such thing as glass skin except when you do your make-up or when you are bathed with extreme oiliness in your skin.
It is so easy nowadays to be fooled and tricked by the advertisements of most influential people. Having a clear and glassy skin is achievable but not in a way you are thinking of. Always remember there is no such perfect skin. We all have flaws and that's beautiful. This article is an educational awareness about the circulating rejuvenating products around the beauty world. If you really love your skin, you have to stop using products that are only destroying your skin in the long term.
The whitening and the glassiness are only temporary because they're not a magical beauty regimen. Rejuvenating products are nothing but an exfoliator and what's the sense of exfoliating you skin over and over again? Even Japan and Korea have banned the use of Hydroquinone and Tretinoin due to its cruelty to the skin. While in US and Europe, you need a prescription before you will be able to use those products. It's scary to think that in the Philippines they're the number one ingredients found in those rejuvenating toners and they are sold here as if just a normal product. I feel really sorry to the people who have ruin their skin just because they have no idea about what they are using.
I hope this article will totally raise awareness. Do not be fooled by the marketing tactics and foolish words of paid influential people.
June 5, 2022
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I hope those addicted to these kinds of creams can see this and understand the damaging and long term effect they are having on their skin. It's not all as they say in the commercials. They need to wise up.