10 Skin care PRODUCTS I DON'T USE| Dr Dray

well hey guys in today's video I'm gonna share with you 10 skin care products I don't buy stuff that I don't buy I don't use I have no interest in using some of these products I may have purchased and used in the past but I'm not really interested in using them moving forward so yeah and if you are new here the first product should come as no surprise to you I do not use eye creams why I creams are unnecessary whatever moisturizer you are using on your face should be just fine to use around your eyes the skin around your eyes is more likely to develop irritation from ingredients so a lot of eye creams are formulated to have fewer ingredients but honestly if you take a step back and really look at the big picture your moisturizer should kind of speak to a minimal ingredient list and be just fine to use around your eyes moisturizers that I use on my face are going to be more than fine to use around my eyes the moisturizer that you use on your face newsflash it doesn't stay put perfectly it's not like it's glued down to the skin where you put it it moves around and transfers to the skin around your eyelids and so to say that like you're using a separate moisturizer like like there's this define anatomic boundaries between the skin on your cheek and your your eyes and product you cannot cross that boundary is ridiculous yeah most moisturizers are more than fine to use around the skin of the eyelids that being said things you don't want to put there are gonna be ingredients that are intended to exfoliate vitamin C serum shouldn't go there because it's very acidic the skin around your eyelids cannot handle it but I mean that's not a moisturizer exfoliating acids you don't want to put around your eyelids and so it's always prudent to take a step back and not put stuff there but it doesn't mean that you need a separate moisturizer or for your eyelids that's just that's just a gimmick so yeah don't waste my time on eye creams second product you will not see me buying you at all is a rosewater spray my gosh I cannot walk into a store looking at the skincare products and not see some kind of rosewater mist spray or what have you why don't I use these well in general facial sprays are a little gimmicky you spray water on your face and then that water evaporates and as it evaporates it can draw more water out of your skin making it more dry and irritating in the case of rosewater there's nothing in rosewater that is evidence-based for providing any skin benefit so you spray your face with what is essentially a perfume and then the water in the rose water evaporates out and makes your skin more dry more irritated and it leaves behind the kind of rose ingredients that people believe are helpful but we really don't have any evidence for that and more often than not can cause irritation that's not to say though that I'm opposed to all facial sprays some facial sprays have active ingredients in them that are moisturizing and you know can benefit the skin with the caveat that if you use a facial spray apply it mist it onto your face and then put a moisturizer on over it to lock in that active ingredient within the spray the next product I don't buy toners toners is something you will not see me buying and when I say toner you know the definition of toner has morphed a lot over the past few years especially with the interest in k-beauty and Japanese skincare they defined toner as something very different I'm specifically talking about Western toners Western toners are alcohol based products that originally were intended to balance out the pH of the skin and help remove residue from cleansing and this used to be important because soaps and cleansers were really about very harsh pH they were alive base soaps and these old-school soaps that had a really harsh alkalyn really harsh alkaline pH they will leave behind soap come on a soap scum film on your skin so toners were necessary to balance that out and remove that but the manufacturing of soap and cleansers has come a long long way and soaps and cleansers are pH balanced for the skin so this is not an issue and therefore these toners are not necessary these toners often have alcohols in them which you know are not the devil but they definitely can dry out your skin and irritate your skin these - yeah toners are pretty much obsolete with the exception of a lot of products on this in the skincare market claimed to be toners and these are actually liquids that have active ingredients in them usually for acne like salicylic acid toners I'm not opposed to those for people with with acne but you know if you don't have acne there's there's really no need to use a toner and it can definitely dry out and irritate your skin so I don't recommend them or use them fourth thing I do not waste my time money or efforts on are fad ingredients ingredients that are trending and that people get excited about and that you see like when you walk in the store you see multiple Browns with new lines being launched that feature set ingredient things like charcoal turmeric rosewater CBD you name it all of these ingredients you know manufacturers they have a way of taking maybe one or two little tiny studies that we have in the literature and going wild with them like in the case of probiotics and skin care I mean we have a few studies and conditions like acne eczema seborrhoeic dermatitis that suggests that topical probiotics might be helpful for those skin conditions but all the studies in those different skin conditions with probiotics they use different strains they look at different end points there are so much there's so much variability that we really don't have the kind of studies that we need to really say if these are beneficial furthermore we don't have any studies to suggest that if you don't have these inflammatory skin conditions like acne eczema seborrheic dermatitis that you really need to be using these things or what the right strain is it's cetera so that's an example same thing with turmeric I see that all the time in skincare products it's really hard to formulate it but that's not gonna stop manufacturers from pumping it into a lot of products and these ingredients that get marketed so heavily that a you know it becomes a narrative must-have ingredient and my comment sections and my videos my Instagram comments get flooded with please comment please discuss like good products with this ingredient it's like take a step back we don't really have any data to show that you need that or it's important or that your skin even gives to wits about it so I don't get excited about trending ingredients that's not to say that I don't try these ingredients out a lot of times products are sent to me because of my presence on YouTube and you guys might want me to talk about them so I do but yeah so I don't get excited about trending ingredients whatsoever and nor should you I mean don't drop everything buy a new like skincare product or skincare line because it's got some new jazzy trending ingredient it's largely being marketed to you as something that you need when in reality there's zero data to suggest that you actually do need it product number five you will not see me buying is water wipes water wipes like makeup wipes cleansing wipes baby wipes I don't buy wipes as a matter of fact the only time I think I can recall engaging in wipe usage is when dining in a restaurant where the entree was intended to be eaten with one's hands and afterwards the waiter or waitress would bring you a water wipe to you or wipe your hands when it comes to cleansing wipes do not clean your skin they don't remove makeup they don't remove dirt they don't remove sebum or oil they just kind of move it around they don't even help break it up and another issue with these products is that they have ingredients in them that leave behind a film on the skin can cause irritation and a lot of these water wipes have preservatives in them like methyl isothiocyanate people do become allergic to that and water wipes are a major major cause of that type of ski an allergy a major reason for that it's not just the makeup wipes in the you know face washing wipes or whatever you want to call them baby wipes are another culprit I don't have babies so I have no need to buy baby wipes but if you have a young child be aware of the fact that water wipes can cause a lot of irritation in the diaper area and be a cause of diaper dermatitis because they leave that residue behind that can be irritating to the baby skin other reason I don't buy water wipes is they are not the best thing for the environment product number six that I do not buy are going to be scrubs scrub masks body scrubs exfoliating scrubs anything that has like sand Kakui seed nut shells I don't buy those things why because simply bathing on a daily basis washing your face on a daily basis is going to help with the exfoliation of those dead crusty skin cells on the top layer of the skin the rough mechanical exfoliants in scrubs just cause a lot of issues and cause irritation and and whatnot so I don't use those I don't even have a particularly sensitive scan I just find those things a complete waste of time plus they make a mess they make a mess I mean I've been sent these products before and I end up using them on my feet and they are messy they get all over the shower and I just can't stand those those scrubs yeah I don't hummus scrubs no I mean yeah I don't use those product number seven you will not see me waste a dime on it's going to be a lash serum now I don't have any issues with my lashes I happen to be happy with them but if I had thin sparse eyelashes I still would not buy last serums because they are a gimmick and they can cause problems it can cause eyelid irritation rashes it's not rather as a matter of fact there was a lawsuit against one of these lash serum companies I won't name any names but for not properly just I think was a lawsuit or the FTC came down on one of these launched serum groups for not properly disclosing the risks of these last serums of irritation and went on people developing really bad problems and if you're trying to improve the health of your eyelashes you don't want to put things on the lashes that can irritate the skin around your eyelids because that irritation can lead to loss of eyelashes an eyelash breakage so I don't recommend those you know prescription by Matta procced aka Latisse can and does help in lash growth but it too comes with these risks of irritation your eye ice can change color I mean there are several problems that can arise just for the prescription stuff that we actually know works but on the cosmetic market you know the regulation is a lot more loosey-goosey in terms of side effects and to me it's just more trouble than it's worth for people more risks of irritation and problems no evidence to support that these you know cosmetic last serums actually regrow lashes so I don't buy them I don't use them I would never use them if I had lash problems and I don't recommend that you guys use them yeah I'm not into the last serums but I'm always getting questions what's a good lash serum what's a good last serum Milosh serum next thing you will not see me buy and is a trending trendy ingredient or thing to buy is facial oils squalene oil rose hip oil hemp seed oil CBD oil oil oil I don't buy oils for my face because I use a moisturizer and moisturizers emollients in them which do the same thing as oils smooth down the surface of the skin cells and create a smooth smooth feeling and you can lock in a little bit of hydration I don't get caught up in different types of oils or anything like that you know skin care marketing will start telling you that certain oils are good for certain skin types and they have these antioxidant compounds that are going to address pore size and smooth all this stuff is just bogus nonsense when it comes to putting oils on the skin you know to say that to say that any one type of oil whether it be hemp seed oil or any of these other exotic oils has benefit to the skin over mineral oil I mean prove it prove that I have not seen not seeing any Studies on that a spot that doesn't keep skin care marketing from selling a boatload of overpriced oil to people so I don't buy oil facial oils now I do buy cleansing oils cleansing oils are an oil with emulsifier in it to help break up things like water resistance sunscreen using a cleansing oil is a more efficient way to remove things like cosmetics sebum and water resistant sunscreen in the case of water resistant sunscreen especially that's actually been shown so I do use cleansing oils but I do not buy facial oils to leave on the skinny other reason why I'm not into facial oils like I'm now especially a lot of plant oils is that they're not pure substances so they have different compounds in them that can oxidize when exposed to light and error and whatnot and degrade and become very irritating a lot of people's acne will be aggravated by some of these oils it's hard to predict who that is but the skincare market tries to tries to trick you and tell you that certain oils are acne safe and others are not and that's that's like complete that's like a complete made-up story that they're telling you I mean people with acne their acne can be sensitive - these oils and it's not like a specific oil over another so I don't waste time with them and I'm not like a famine now if you use a facial oil and you enjoy it that's great if it doesn't cause any problems for you you like the way it looks you know I can see why a lot of people especially people who wear makeup like that amoliant effect before they put on their makeup fine like I don't necessarily have a problem with them they can cause issues for people but it's just a thing for me like why would I buy that I use a moisturizer it already does that for me product number nine I do not buy anymore I used to I used to buy a lot and review on this channel is sheet masks nothing against sheet masks I just reached a point where I found myself buying them and not using them I am somebody who doesn't have attention span - I don't know what it is sheet masks I just they sit in a box and I don't use them so I stopped buying them and there's an I don't have any problem with sheet masks namely those that are free of fragrance they can help with skin hydration if you have particularly dry skin like they can help but then they're not like ever a permanent solution plus I was getting sent a lot of sheet masks and it just became my apartment became a house full of sheet masks yeah I I got tired of them I didn't I I wasn't using them so I stopped buying them and coming back to you kind of why I don't buy wives not the best thing for the environment these single-use sheet masks a lot of sheet masks are laden with nothing but irritating ingredients and fragrance and then other sheet masks they might have ingredients that are actually good but it's like alright do you really want to use this ingredient if so you need to be using it on some consistent basis not in a one time sheet mask kind of kind of a deal so I don't know I stopped using them again I don't have a problem with them I I do use those under-eye hydrogel I mask I like doing those but and you know you can make the argument of are just as wasteful and like what's the point of that was for some reason I enjoy doing those they're relaxing for me and I prefer that was but the sheet masks I just got to a point where as like I don't enjoy doing these and I guess because a hydrogel I'm asked I can multitask more easily with as opposed to the sheet mask I mean maybe it's something as goofy as that but yeah gave up on the sheet Mouse and no longer buy them product number tone is something I would never in my entire life by never have bought never will buy and strongly encouraged you ladies out there not to buy and that is feminine washes these are horrible they alter the pH downstairs make you predisposed to things like yeast infections bacterial infections and they can cause a lot of irritation here's the thing the female genital tract is a self-cleaning device you don't need to deodorize it perfume it or anything like that and it can lead to a lot of problems using products like this not only as I said alters a pH makes you more predisposed to yeast infections bacterial infections but these things can cause a lot of chronic irritation and I think where people run into problems with these is I when you first use something like this at least I'm guessing cuz I've never used anything like this I think when you first use something like this it's heavily fragranced so you think that like you have you're somehow cleaner and then what ends up happening is that after a few days or whatever then the issues start arising with the product the fragrance the the natural bacteria start kind of breaking up that fragrance and whatnot and it smells foul it alters your pH it causes irritation that irritation and whatnot can lead to foul-smelling discharge and I think people then believe oh it's time to use the the feminine wash with a feminine deodorant they're so bad you guys they are so bad for for that area you do not you don't need to use any type of cleansing product just water I mean you really don't you really I mean it cleans itself like and along the lines of the feminine washes looping back to the whites that I don't use a lot of these brands have gotten on the white trained and they have scented wipes and so you're running into the same issue that I mentioned with the facial wipes that you're leaving behind a residue a preservative plus fragrance now it can really cause a lot of problems so I don't recommend them and stay away from there no there no there no good yeah they've even gotten on the white train I mean what is it with I've noticed this as a side note like it's something it's something about the drugstore market where whites are or where it's odd a lot of them more like trendy indie brands or the stuff in Sephora less than the white train but it's like if you are a drugstore skincare brand you have to have a white it's like a requirement how do you guys notice not Cetaphil has wipes Neutrogena has wipes Sarah B has wipes simple has wipes yeah everybody's got wipes I mean it's like what are we wiping wash your face stop wiping it yeah don't a kid I can't with the white so those are ten products I do not buy or use and if you guys are new here I have another video from a long time ago talking about why I don't buy or you use vitamin C serums and that is still another product I don't buy so it's an eleventh one but yeah if you're wondering like why I didn't mention that yeah I don't I don't buy that either but you can watch that video if you want an explanation as to why but share in the comments below stuff you guys are not buying you know in the current climate unfortunately people are struggling financially so share what we do not need to buy down the hopefully these 10 things you can cross off your list and not buy them either and save yourself some money but I hope you guys enjoyed this video if you liked it give it a thumbs up share it with your friends and as always don't forget sunscreen and subscribe I'll talk to you guys tomorrow bye [Music]

Channel: Dr Dray

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Length: 21min 41sec (1301 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 17 2020