Should you wear anti-aging lingerie? Episode 112

Please support the Beauty Brains by signing up for a free audio book at Audible.com. Click here to get your free audio book. Do supplements improve skin? Link I saw this story published on the cosmetic surgery times website asking the question whether nutricosmetics is real science or scientific rhetoric. Or as we called it a few shows back “sciencesplotation”. First a definition of nutricosmetics. These are supplements that supposedly can help support skin, hair and nail health. It is a group of products that play into the old saying, you are what you eat. In cosmetic industry marketing speak it’s referred to as the “beauty from within” trend. So we’re talking about pills, probiotic foods, vitamin water and things like this that you are supposed to invest to get a beauty benefit. The thing about the supplement industry is that they are much less regulated than food, drugs or cosmetics so the claims and quality are much less reliable. Anyway, this article looked at whether these products can actually help your skin or hair in general. And for their experts they talked to a few dermatologists. Here is what they said. Dr Jeanette Jacknin wrote a book called Smart Medicine for Your Skin and she says that nutricosmetics don’t work alone but instead work together with a healthy diet, sun protection and avoidance of environmental pollutants, stress reduction and topical antioxidants. Of course if you’re doing all that how would you ever see any benefit from a nutri...
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