I have read about face creams etc but it’s very difficult to identify the truth from the marketing. From what I can tell, the whole industry is nonsense and preys mostly on insecure women. It seems like there is no way to prove it since if the results are less than expected, the reply would be “imagine how much worse it could have been.” Maybe too many questions but is there any correlation between cost and effectiveness?
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If you listen to podcasts start listening to Beauty Brains. It’s 2-3 cosmetic chemists discussing what’s real, what’s marketing, and answering listener questions. They give accessible, real world advice on what ingredients are worth splurging on and what is nonsense. They refuse to endorse any particular products though, so the onus is on the listener to read ingredients labels and apply the information they share accordingly. The older episodes go into more detail.
My TLDL (too long, didn’t listen) to years of the pod:
if its *actually* effective, due to U.S. FDA laws, it has to be listed as a drug.
Many products have “star” ingredients (things like argan oil) to impress the consumer when all the benefit is from regularly applying a product that is a good moisturizer/barrier/film former. Very few things absorb into the skin.
Basic, inexpensive, mass produced products are just as good if not better than expensive boutiquey brands because the giant conglomerates have way more resources to pour into research & development of good formulas- and it’s less expensive because they have economy of scale.
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