BRANDS ARE LYING TO YOU: CLEAN BEAUTY EXPOSED | Dr Dray

I used vaseline at some point in my 20s as a makeup remover because I read about it in beauty magazines and I got these weird white bumps around my eyes. I had to stop using it and the bumps went away. Never used vaseline again. But it is interesting to know it is used widely in healthcare.

A "natural" beauty company in my country just wrote a super long email complaining that the government are making them put the full list of ingredients on their products by breaking down the content of what they DO put in their products. Of course that is going to work against them since they have been claiming that their products don't contain this and that, when in fact they do - just as a part of a different ingredient. And she said just what you mentioned; "Now people are gonna thing we purposely put those things in the product"...but they did, they just don't want people to know because it sounds so "scary" and "chemical"

I’m a guy new to using moisturisers etc as I’m 38 now and my skin needs more care now. I’m using Palmers cocoa butter moisturiser which is petroleum ‘based’. All the info on carcinogenic ingredients is a bit overwhelming. So is the one I’m using okay?

You really should research and find out what ingredients are in your personal care products. I used mineral oil and petroleum jelly as an eye ointment for dry eyes when i was on a certain medication and eventually over time my eyes began to swell and burn. I suffered so much because I didn't know what was causing it. I went to 6 or 7 eye doctors and they told me to learn how to live with it and to keep using the ointment or my corneas will get scratched (Talking about fear mongering). I contacted the Boston dry eye institute and they told me I didn't have dry eyes because it doesn't cause that much pain. They referred me to an eye doctor in Seattle that day even though they had a 6 week waiting list. This doctor examined my eyes and told me that my eye were not dry. He examined them and said they looked like raw hamburger meat. He told me to stop using whatever I was using and to see him in Tacoma in 10 days. My eyes looked so much better. I was allergic to the stuff. My aunt can't use mineral oil to remover her eye makeup because they burn her eye so badly. I can't use any person care products with mineral oil, petroleum jelly, fragrance, sulphates silicones, alcohol, or parabens and a few others. Thank God they make natural personal care products or I wouldn't be using anything at.

How does she have time to make content online and also do her job in person with people

Wow!

Buying less products is the thing that's best for the environment, thank you. That really goes for everything, not just cosmetics. Everyone wants to buy the newest natural product, it's still over-consumerism.

I will only listen to Dr. Dray and no one else.

Again you’re coming from a very biased viewpoint. Once again your skin is very dry with tight pores so yes petroleum based products wouldn’t affect you at all or as much. Petroleum products for people with oily skin larger pores would cause clogged and even larger pores and eventually acne. Most people that use and love petroleum based products have extremely dry skin.

I sadly fell into the (expensive 😫) clean beauty hype recently and battled the worst cystic (but yet dry) breakouts of my adult life. I'm a mother so.. easy to feel guilted into thinking you're using said "toxic" ingredients in your household. Now that I've switched back to my fairly minimalistic routine (gentle cleanser, few basic actives and mineral oil/petrolatum based moisturizer) my skin has cleared up, irritation gone and barrier repaired so quickly. Don't fall for the natural hype people!

I will admit I fell for it just for a little while. I avoided mineral oil & Vaseline. But thank goodness for dermatologists on YT ! Now I know better. Yesterday when I accidentally sliced by left thumb on the edge of a lid, after rinsing my thumb w/water, I put Vaseline on it & a bandaid. No longer afraid of Vaseline....I have 4 or 5 jars of it around our house ! Thank you, Andrea !

Sometimes when eczema 9r severe dry skin hits, creamy petroleum jelly from the dollar tree works well. Lock in moisture after showering before bed. Works very wellm

After using “Shea Moisture” for months, mine and my daughters hair started falling out in an abnormal amount….

I noticing that lot of so call "clean products" are mostly baby products targeting people with babies which is so freaking disturbing

Glad you are here! Big beauty companies are doing this to up their profits..they still charge the same price. Women are not going to buy into this. Let the teenagers have the organic fraudulent products

Finally someone in the industry that confirms what I knew! So upset I cannot find products that are really effective. Even my go to skin care is hawking phony expensive so called ORGANIC skin care. Now their products do not produce results. They came out with Plantfolia ingredients no results. Where can I find products that have the ingredients that actually worked..
I'm don't even care I want my so called Toxic skin care and cosmetics Help doc

You are a gem 💎 dr 👩‍⚕️ so awesome!

Not adding petroleum based products was all I cared about, and I think the way this video is structured is slightly disingenuous.

I love this video. I feel the same way. I call these companies Green Washing companies. Arbonne is a big one IMO. I'd love to see a video about Arbonne and their claims :)

Ahem GOOP!

Does using shampoos and conditioners that contains "Dimethiconol " blocks hair and hair scalp from absorbing the benefits of rosemary oil and coconut oil ?

Anyway, what is Dr's opinions on the green brand 100 Percent Pure (American brand)?
On my slight sensitive plus mild to moderate eczema-prone combination drier side skin, surprisingly they almost never broke me out (Restorative Sea Toner/Moisturizer, Luminous Primer, 2nd Skin Foundation)!

And those Jing Si Soap (Taiwan products) too I can see they really work on other people though and their skin is glowing!

And paraffin oil, mineral oil and vaseline really make my surrounding skin around chapped lip grows tonnes of big acnes...

I use the product in the thumbnail, shea moisture Baby raw shea chamomile argan oil w frankincense and myrrh Wash and also the lotion. Smells so good! Feels GREAT too 🙌 I also wash my cat with it too lol. Doesn't irritate her skin 🐱and the scent is mild

i have purchased vaseline and donated to poor people

Recycle the plastic too.

You are terrific, Andrea! Thank you for another incredibly helpful, important video. Happy 2022!

What do you think about Olaplex products? Particularly Olaplex #7 oil? Thank you

After a skin surgery on my face my derm told me to put nothing but Vaseline on the stitches for a week. I did as she asked and I have no scar. Any fear mongering "clean beauty" might have done to me before ended then. Thanks Dr. Dray!

These clean beauty brands drive me nuts when they say things like "ingredients you can actually pronounce!" So if an ingredient is a long, hard to pronounce word, then it's automatically toxic? Sounds like bs to me.

Thanks for this bit of info.
I’m wondering though w some of the “indie” line products,is there even a difference between them and lines like neutragena.

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It seems to me the production, packaging, and shipping of products is where environmental impact can be more affected.

I wonder why u don't buy the generic brand to Vaseline

I was scared away from Vaseline many, many years ago by something I heard or read saying how big, bad and scary it was.👹

Then a few years after that, I was watching Martha Stewart, and she showed her nighttime skincare routine...which included VASELINE!😯😯😯

The horrors! Is she not aware how bad it is? She's rich. She has access to the best dermatologists.
Vaseline??

More time ticked by⏰⏱⏲🕰⏳
and I began hearing information debunking the "Vaseline bad" narrative, and I realized it wasn't really the spooky monster under the bed after all.

Thank you for further debunking the "Vaseline bad" myth.👍🏻🙂

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I admit I avoid petrolatum and mineral oil, etc, yet the Missha bb cream I use has it in the ingredients and it doesn't bother my skin :P I'm a recovering cleanaholic...

I have been using Vaseline as long as I can remember and recently was told by multiple people that Vaseline is bad and to stop using. I didn’t, but I felt guilty using it and SO happy to hear it’s ok! I will let them know too! You’re so great at explaining things and appreciate you spreading your wealth of knowledge!
So appreciate your videos, Dr. Dray ☀️

Thank you Dr. Dray for educational content :)

Petroleum is the best ingredient for preventing and healing pressure wounds/injuries in the hospital.

In regard to the whole clean skin care and cosmetics idea. I think people are just young enough that they never learned why the parabins and petroleum jelly's and un"clean" ingrediants were created, which was because all of those reactions and allergies people have had to those "green" ingredients. If I did more history I have a feeling we would find this has happened in the past and will probably happen again in the future. A total marketing scheme. So many things in life are money driven.

Also aren’t petrolatum, paraffin and mineral oil byproducts of oil industry? I mean, these things will be produced (derived or extracted) no matter what until we have our oil industry running. But instead of utilising these by products, we use them in other industries

DANG. And a related content: if Dr Dray came out with her own product line that walks her talk, I WOULD SO BE ON BOARD.

"Sounds biblical" lol

Thanks for sharing that. Good to know!!

Doc, could you please do a video on baby eczema care including hydrocortisone and other routines? We have a 5 month old and have been struggling with it... Thank you!!!!

Wow! I had no idea that petroleum is non-clogging and is as good (or better) for our skin than the "clean" products. Thank you!

Thanks for the clarification about petroleum jelly. I remember getting these bumps ( cystic acne) only when I used Clinique DDML which is a staple product from their line. I was told it was the mineral oil and petroleum in it. However Using their gel/ oil free moisturizer version was way much better for me. I better leave behind my fear of these ingredients then.

How are you gonna dislike this video? It’s a proven fact 😹

Dr Dray is my hero. I live for her no BS approach.