The complete list of side effects from lash conditioners.
People loved their lashes.
I did a complete video on lash conditioners.
A lot of people didn't know things like the fat atrophy,
premature aging of the eye.
A lot of people didn't know about the redness, but today I'm
going to go through the list.
We're talking loss of fat around the eye, discoloration, hollows,
and meibomian gland dysfunction.
Just check this out first, and I'm gonna also tell you exactly what
to do to avoid these problems.
But check this out.
A 2015 study showed a shocking 91.7%, extremely high percentage of patients.
Treat it with prostaglandin analog, same ingredient ein latice.
For glaucoma had meibomian gland disease versus only 57% of patients
being treated for glaucoma on a different category of medication.
So a huge different difference.
What is that?
Well, what's gotten most of the press is, as it says here, Is it possible
permanent and irreversible dryness and ocular surface disease, O S
D, more and more common caused by Laise and these other prostaglandin
analogs over the, and here's the key.
Look at this over the counter alternatives have increasingly gained popularity.
Of course, that's the majority of people using lash conditioners
due to the price point.
Okay?
Because it's a lot less expensive and you don't need a prescription.
You just, you can order it online.
But unfortunately, the fact that they are not prescription leads some to.
Falsely believe they must be safer.
A list of ingredients of one of the most popular over the counter lash
growth serums, ROTEM Fields, lash Boost shows a not so friendly potential.
Dry eye ingredient.
ISO Propal CLO Pros.
That's the one I want you to watch for.
And again, it might, some of these are in there, but they don't.
The answer to me, of course, is growth factors.
Now this similarly goes for the dark circles around the eyes, the fat atrophy,
the percentages are different, but article after article, and you can read the
studies, talks about these side effects.
I'll list them.
Today I was asked, I want to know if I'm experiencing some of the side effects
and the reason the person asks that.
It's like hair growth when you're on or lash growth pertinent to
this, when you're on something regularly, oftentimes we don't see the
changes because they're two things.
One is subtle, so they're just little changes.
Two is over time, and that happens with many aesthetic procedures, but
a lot of people accept side effects.
As something, not a side effect, meaning they start taking
something and they have a feeling.
In this case, they might have eye irritation or dry eye, and
they don't put it together.
Hey, that started three weeks after my last conditioner, but
that association isn't made.
Let's dive into the most common side effects.
In fact, I'm gonna go through almost all of them so it'll be inclusive
and tell you what each means.
Cuz I know some of the big words are confusing, even for
me, I have to refresh myself.
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First, keep in.
That LAIs was the, is the FDA approved product, has Bama
Prost, which is a prostaglandin agonist, many lash conditioners.
And here's a complete list up here.
Actually, it's not complete.
There's certainly other ones that might have an analog in it.
It.
And that analog, if you're looking in the ingredient list, is going to be
called iso propal procrastinate, and it's a pretty big word, but that's what
you're looking for because it's similar to the FDA approved drug in LAIs.
There is and has been a warning letter issued.
And keep in mind, and this is a tough one, but just because you don't see it as
an ingredient, doesn't mean it isn't in.
Say that, uh, with some hesitation because it's implying that people
aren't listing all the ingredients.
But historically that has happened, so I'm not picking that at a thin air.
So be careful what you use.
You know, my solution is not to get involved with these
prostaglandin agonists at all.
I like growth factor.
Growth factor, skin.
And I use Antioch's, uh, overnight.
Lash Serum is what it's called.
There are proven no prostaglandin analogs because it uses growth factors.
The same types we use in skincare and the same types that we use in post recovery.
The serums, the microneedling roller serum, but there's 12 of them and
they hold the lash in the growth phase or the antigen phase for a.
Period of time so the lash grows.
Remember, with all these lash conditioners, the lashes get larger,
longer, and thicker, usually over months.
Let's look at the side effects now.
Okay, here's our list.
Let's start with number one.
Often asked, studied, and proven is pigmentation of the iris,
the colored part of the eye.
So many people love their eyes.
They love the color of their eyes and their.
Haunted by the possibility that it could change and it's possibly
permanent, quite possibly permanent.
Now, blue eyes don't become brown eyes, but darker eyes like Hazel
can have darker areas in them, and often, of course, it's not the whole
iris, but there are specks of color.
in them.
So it's not like putting a colored contact lens in, but there are color
changes that are documented and you have to be prepared for that.
So know that because there are people that are very tied to and
love the color of their eyes, and of course, We don't want to change that.
Number two, conjunctival hyperemia.
Big word for saying red eyes.
Hyperemia means increased blood flow.
Conjunctiva is the white part of the eye.
Now you know that anything can cause this, and in fact, like smoke pollution.
Um, there's something called ocular surface disease.
I have a whole video on that.
Number four, eye drooping.
Okay?
And I did a whole video on this.
If it's not up now, it will be, but there is a case and
there are case reports of it.
A lot of it's from loss of the fat pad and maybe it's affecting the musculature.
Kind of scary.
Not that common, but you can get dro.
Lid drooping, uh, because the skin does get atop and fibrosis, all things
we don't want atrophy is shrinking.
Um, next eyelid skin hyperpigmentation.
I guess this is one we haven't talked about a lot.
If you have dark spot, uh, dark circles under the eyes, if you have
pigment, kind of my colored skin.
Most people have an element of pigment under eyes by nature of genetics.
This is thought to be directly from the prostaglandins and it
can attribute to dark circle.
Add that to what else causes dark circles?
Lots of fat.
That's why we do prf.
Plasma eyes, dry eye symptoms quite high.
The eye lashes funnel, the wind, the allergens, uh, pollen and everything
in a certain way away from the eye.
And when you grow long lashes, lashes actually have a function.
Uh, that changes those, those dynamic, the dynamic flows
and the protection of the eye.
We'll put it that way.
So dry eye symptoms can be multifactorial, but this is thought to be direct
from the prostaglandin irritation per orbital erythema, swollen red lid.
Now, this has been shown in the studies.
Try not to get as much of this product in the eye.
If you're using the growth factor that I talked about, it's not a worry.
I've never seen it aesthetically, which is what we're talking.
The discoloration, the loss of fat, the fibrosis, the thinning of the
skin, uh, those are all ones that go in the opposite direction of
what we want to do with a beauty, beautiful, healthy, and vibrant eye.
And the description below is the link to the anti-age growth serum, but
that's something you wanna look into.
These are some of the side effects.
Sharing the comments below, what's your favorite product?
Have you tried the growth factor one?
Do you like?
And what is your go to system for lash growth?