So apparently hair vitamins can give you acne, and I have a story for you about that.
Hello and welcome to the Queendom. I'm Sarah Ingle and today we're going to
be talking about the world of hair vitamins because it seems that whether
you're just like at Target or at the grocery store even just scrolling for
your Instagram feed, everywhere you look you are bombarded with hair gummies, skin
gummies, like, gummies for this, gummies for that like the just one here it's
"glowing skin" and then this one here is like "hair skin and nails" and this one
over here is like oh you're gonna live to you're 300. There's a gummy for
everything. Okay then, let's just like bring on the gummies. I'm all for like
candy for breakfast. Sounds good to me. Well, it's some good
marketing, but vitamins are not, on one end a magical cure-all, and then on the
other end, they're not just little gummy bears you can be eating like candy. They
actually have medical consequences, so that brings us to story time. So in the
past several months, this channel has become more and more a hair channel. Last
year I made a video called my 18 tips for long hair and at the end of that I
mentioned some tips that I had heard about that were good but that I didn't
necessarily do myself and one of those was hair gummies and at the time I
didn't really use hair gummies at all but is something that is thrown at us
all the time and I was like you know what we've talked a lot about these I've
seen a lot of them. I was studying all this hair stuff so I was like yeah
let's get ourselves some hair gummies where things really get interesting as I
watched a video from a pretty big youtuber who was talking about how she
made her hair grow super fast she's super well attention and really believed
everything she was saying but it wasn't as I learned the hard way the most
informed video the gist of it was, was the way she got her hair to grow super
fast was to be taking the regular hair gummies which the main ingredient of
those is biotin and there's 2,500 micrograms of biotin and these which is
eight over 8000% of your daily value that you need to get in
a day and then her key was not only that but that you needed to eat it with
vitamin b12 gummies because otherwise your body wouldn't be able to absorb all
about biotin she also went on to say if there's more than your body needs it
just flushes it out and so you can eat as mint much of these as you want and it
doesn't have really any consequences so she's basically she just eats in like
candy and I was like great cuz now I can eat candy it tastes like candy and it's
actually good for me so what I think is like an entirely separate event all of a
sudden my skin progressively stirs just get worse and worse like I had never had
breakouts like this I had in fact just made a video on like my 18 tips for
clear skin shortly before all of this and so when I start having like these
breakouts which were very uncharacteristic of me I go back and I
watch my own video it's like okay Sarah tell me what to do and tip number one
was know your body and you're like I was like you know what that's right I know
that the foods and the things that I put into me and just I should know myself
and as somebody who lived with myself my whole life I know that certain things
like for me caffeine and sugar make me break out stop being the caffeine
stopping in the sugar I'll be fine well that didn't happen and that was the
first time ever that that didn't happen in fact it was like it was worth an
I come across this little guy the kale and green tea spinach vitamins more
vitamins superfood cleansers from a youth to the people this is highly
recommended by a lot of skincare gurus and for most people like they love this
stuff but as somebody I don't know why I didn't listen to my own advice to know
your body I should have listened I know that I have extremely sensitive skin the
more I cleanse the worse my skin gets but my skin felt like it was on fire
like it was like full-on like allergic reaction or something I don't know but
even things like after I would use this if I would put something on my skin that
I'd used for years my skin literally felt like it was burning it would hurt
and I was like okay clearly this is it for me I might be for some people was
not for me I actually wanted to replacing it with this matcha hemp
hydrating cleanser that has vitamin b5 in it which we're gonna talk about a
little bit later and I didn't realize that until just now
and it actually further proves what I'm gonna tell you in a little bit it works
way better however my skin was still just being for me disagreeable I'm gonna
start doing more research when I come across a little bit of information that
I wish I would have known biotin which we talked about is that main ingredient
here one where you get eight overeat thousand percent of your daily value is
known as some people - they've been reported cases of making people causing
acne and those people making their breakouts worse if you remember the
other friendly acquaintance here this little guy a vitamin b12 it makes your
skin produce away more sebum which then in turn makes you break out so very
recently like a week ago I stopped using both of these completely it's been much
much much much much better I tend to have dry skin but I remember it would
get like oily the one week since I stopped this that has stopped completely
my skin is still calming down some but it's already gotten so much better so
what's going on here first I think there needs to be a little bit more education
around vitamin B in particular and perhaps some day let me know in the
comments actually if you ever want us to do a whole video on like supplements and
vitamins but one thing that I know I didn't understand before this was I'd
heard like yeah there's like vitamin b12 and vitamin b6 and vitamin B like all
these different vitamin B's but it never really clicked in my head oh there's a
lot of different types of vitamin B's in fact there are eight different types of
vitamin B's okay and I don't know if I'm pronouncing these correctly because all
the literature I've read on this I've read didn't hear it with my ears so
there's a vitamin b1 which is thiamine there's vitamin b2 which is riboflavin
vitamin b3 which is niacin so there is no vitamin b4 8 10 or 11 because
basically people thought originally that they were vitamins but then they found
out later they're not actually essential to humans like Pluto what is Pluto today
is it a planet an asteroid arisen dogs we're all the above we don't know
vitamin b5 pantothenic acid vitamin b6 i ro da pyridoxine pi r I don't know
Kyrie pyridoxine vitamin b7 is another name for biotin vitamin b9 is another
name for folate vitamin b12 which is this guy right here is there's nothing
for it as Cobalamin. and there's a
word up on the screen you can read it so basically some of these vitamin B's are
good for your hair and your skin but some of the vitamin B's can give you
acne and then some of them can stop action another little interesting thing
here is biotin basically this idea that biotin makes your hair grow faster but
in all the research that I've read and from what I can tell there's no actual
evidence that biotin can make your hair grow faster there is evidence if you are
deficient in biotin it can lead to hair loss however the amount of biotin that
the average person needs the average person most of us were getting and the
foods were eating on a daily basis and it's a ton of natural sources for it and
especially somebody like I eat a lot of eggs a lot a lot a lot a lot of eggs but
I like we'll have like eight eggs for breakfast but I know it's a good source
for biotin so the only reason that I can find this you actually really need a
biotin supplement is if you're deficient in it and that's to keep your hair from
falling out not to keep make it grow faster so do you need to throw your hair
gummies away probably not really you should probably talk to your doctor
because I'm not a doctor but I can tell you what I'm gonna do so I'm going
to do going forward I'm going to continue with the multivitamin I think
that's probably smart for a lot of people interestingly enough this one
that I usually use a smarty pants women's formula actually already has by
a ten-minute it also has vitamin b6 and vitamin b12 folate with b9 that's in
there niacin was b3 that's in there diamine b1 riboflavin b2 b3 vitamin b5
is not in here if I already have a multivitamin that already has but much
less but does still have some biotin in there I'm not going to be deficient in
that there is no need for me to be eating these wasting my money on these
and there's sugar in them in there if it's gonna make me any more likely to
have acne I don't know if I really want to risk that this guy which I bought it
because it said they were chewable b5 gummies well then I read it's b5
multivitamin yes there's b5 in here but it also has b6 and b12 and folic
acid which is also another one and biotin but basically basically the five
is one that we could go into all the science of it you could look it up we're
not gonna spend all the time at data basically vitamin b5 is one that could
actually really help if you do have acne so what I'm gonna be doing is I'm gonna
be probably literally returning this bottle and getting one that actually is
just vitamin b5 so I'm just adding that before hair thing I have read some
research on this has collagen and hyaluronic acid in it I'm eating like
half of the suggested amount of this and just seeing kind of like what happens
now I'm much more leery about it but I also did some research on it and
did not see any sort of weird side effects associated with this I got these
these taste gross but I'm eating them anyways it's a prebiotic and probiotic
which is another we're not supposed to help with your skin and a whole bunch of
things the more I research about it and like oh I should probably probably be
taking one of these magnesium I love magnesium I think it's fabulous I think
it's super helpful for people with ADHD super helpful for people who have
anxiety it's just a lot of things and these ones are like little gumdrop in
fact
these little gumdrops they're so good they make this in a powder too that you
can make really tasty lemonade it's so good there's one more if you suffer from
acne it's it's hormonal and you know that it's like right before your period
your skin breaks out this something called dim like capital D capital i
capital m it's basically a concentrated form of a whole bunch of cruciferous
vegetables there's some really really interesting research around this that
says that it can help with basically your estrogen levels and it helps keep
them like in a healthy balanced way so I'm gonna try the dim stuff out but I
feel like I need to wait I've got enough other like weird things going on I think
that's a key to hair and skin care is that you can't expect overnight results
patience is key you can't change everything at once if you change
everything at once first of all you're not gonna know what about it your skin
does or doesn't like there can be something in there that your skin hates
and something that your skin loves and you might throw all that out just
because you can see you're having a horrible reaction or maybe it cancels it
out and don't think it's doing anything you kind of gotta introduce things like
one at a time ideally give it time give it a few weeks and see how it's going
add a note for clear skin zinc is not a supplement that can help with it and
another one is vitamin A so vitamin A even though it's
a vitamin basically retinoids are a type of vitamin a retinyl aids are
one of those like miracle like Holy Grail products though a lot of
dermatologist talked about is what's something that helps your skin produce
more collagen it can help with acne it's almost like a chemical exfoliant -
there's so many benefits of like almost anything I was like one thing that so
many dermatologists agree on especially for anti-aging and there's a lot of skin
health things and it's a big one if you guys have heard of accutane it's that
crazy intense prescription medication that doctors give to people with severe
severe acne and it's like has food all these really horrible scary side effects
and so but for that reason a lot of people steer clear from it a lot of
doctors will even steer people away from it it's only if it's like extremely
severe accutane is a derivative of vitamin A okay if I have to summarize
some of the ones that really do help for if you have acne zinc vitamin A vitamin
b5 and dim are really really like great so I guess the moral of the story is do
your research read the labels and even even just like do a quick google search
of the ingredients that you are using especially if you're doing like a
concentrated like just vitamin b12 so I want to know from you guys in the
comments below do you currently take any sort of vitamins or supplements and/or
are you planning to because I'm just really curious to see like how many of
you are currently doing this and if anybody else has experienced this
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you guys so much for watching and I'll see you next time vitamin I don't know
is it a moon it's a moon of the Sun we're all a moon for you get to
information for all a moon of the Sun like there's a lot of value and a lot of
these vitamins if we know what they are because right now I feel like it's just
vitamin ABCD efg hijk LMNOP I'm not gonna take this I thought maybe it like
landed right-side up, and it did not.