Hello everybody, welcome back to my channel, where skincare's all about
progression over perfection. Because, perfection doesn't exist. So,
I'm usually very organized with filming my videos, however, this video dropped
today when I'm filming this. Actually 19 hours ago.
This is, 'Gwyneth Paltrow's guide to everyday skin care and wellness',
over on Vogue, their YouTube channel, and I
just have to say something about this, because
there's so much wrong here, and not in like, oh that's not good for her skin, she
shouldn't be using that. There's so much misinformation that I
consider quite dangerous, and it's just boring now,
we've had enough. Like, I just wanna... oh okay. So I'm gonna
kind of cut through her video, and just kind of point out
the bits that is, isn't just wrong, it's just
it's wrong, like it's wrong. And who am I to sit here saying all this stuff?
No one. So what I'm gonna do is link to all the actual professionals,
Scientists, Dermatologists, where I learn this information from,
an exact post, in the description box down below, so you can learn
what, basically what I'm talking about today, because this is where I got my
information from. I think it's one thing me just sitting here, and repeating what
I've learned from numerous people but it's another thing, I
feel like we, we keep it in our heads, and we actually learn more when we go to a
post, and read it, and process it, from someone who knows, really knows what
they're talking about. First of all actually, I want to say that
this is not an attack on Gwyneth Paltrow, I think as a businesswoman
she knows what she's doing, she's clever when it comes to that.
What this is about, is the wording, the companies, the,
it's the fear-mongering that this entails, and at one point it's quite
dangerous. So, let's take a look at the video, cutting certain bits that aren't
really relevant to what we're talking about today.
“Hi, I'm Gwyneth Paltrow, and I'm back for my second
beauty secrets. I'm gonna walk you through a little bit of my daily routine,
and all the products that I love, and you can see how it has evolved. But
I was very much a tomboy, so this whole skincare thing has
come to me later in life. People always ask me, you know, if I want something
that's a clean non-toxic product that really works,
that I want to buy at the drugstore, what should I get? And I
always say Weleda Skin Food. They make this
super rich fantastic moisturizer,
I think my mom, you know we both tend to have dry skin,
we have similar skin and, but she is very low maintenance, like she's probably
even more low maintenance than I used to be. Now, I'm a little bit higher
maintenance but I think what I learned from her most,
is just to be comfortable with yourself, just be comfortable in your skin,
and you know, that she was kind of a less is
more in terms of makeup, and stuff, and she definitely
passed that on to me. So next is sunscreen. This is a clean mineral sunscreen brand
called Unsun, and it's a 30SPF. You know, there are a
lot of really harsh chemicals in conventional
sunscreens, so that's a product that I really want to avoid,
that you know, isn't certified by the EWG and, which is a great website by the way,
if you ever want to understand how clean a product is, you can
go check that out on their website, Skindeep...”
No. Okay, so this, okay so let's, let's just have a chat.
There is so much wrong in this particular
segment of the video, this is the one that I was waiting for. This is the only
bit we're talking about today. A few things, there aren't questionable
chemicals in your, "questionable chemicals", or ingredients in
your sunscreen. There is no reason as to why a
physical sunscreen is better than a chemical sunscreen
for your skin. There's no proof anywhere, that mineral sunscreens are better for
your skin but they're not toxic, they're not
poising me, they're not sinking into my bloodstream, and causing
cancer. Yes, while there may be traces of
sunscreen in your blood, it's not as scary as it sounds, and the FDA
still recommend using sunscreen. Again, I'll link more about this below.
Please read, before leaving a comment on how you don't want things in your
bloodstream, and poisoning you, and giving you cancer. I know none of you will
comment that, because you all have common sense.
The EWG is a terrible, terrible source of information when it comes to finding out
what's in your products, and what's good for you,
and what's bad for you, in my opinion. In my personal opinion
the EWG is like a fake stamp of approval for this "clean" movement, that doesn't
really mean anything. You can pay the EWG for a clean rating
for your product, In my personal opinion. And they often
ignore their own rules as far as what makes a clean product, and what doesn't,
what ingredients you should avoid, and what you shouldn't.
If you go into the website, look under their EWG approved clean
products, and brands. You can go into those products, and look down the
ingredient list, and still see that they've got these
"dangerous chemicals" that it has been rated as dangerous by the EWG,
so they're not clean, even by the EWG standard. They're just paid to have that
certification. This certification that doesn't mean anything,
in my opinion. They, they are also not backed by science, the EWG's research
as far as the science behind skincare goes, is very similar to that, that you
see on Reddit or on Twitter, almost like these people have done a
quick Google, or misinterpreted a scientific paper,
a study, and class something as dangerous, because they just read the synopsis and
they read the outcome, or whatever. What they class as dangerous ingredient
wise is very outdated, full of misinformation, and backed up by
absolutely nothing, in my opinion. I do not look for EWG
verified, because it doesn't mean sh*t, it doesn't
mean anything, and we have got to stop letting these big companies, these big
brands, pretending that everything is giving us cancer. Honestly, no joke, if I
hear them say one more time, that your sunscreen is
going to give you cancer... you know what's going to give you cancer?
Is sun damage. Skin cancer is going to give you cancer. You are more
likely to get skin cancer from not wearing sunscreen, than wearing
sunscreen. Let's watch the rest of the video, this
segment of the video, “...and I, I'm not, you know, I'm not a sort of head
to toe slather sunscreen but I like to put some kind of on my nose,
and the area where the sun really hits...”
The sun hits you everywhere, if you are outside, the sun hits you everywhere. If
you are living, I guess they live in California,
the sun is hitting you everywhere. The sun doesn't just hit where you feel it.
Yes, you can feel it a little bit more here right, on the like, the highs of your
face but UV rays aren't going, oh oh that will do, just there. She's
literally got the tiniest bit. This is not how you apply sunscreen,
even if it's clean, it's not how you apply sunscreen. This is
actually ridiculous, and infuriating. The fact that
Vogue put this up on their YouTube channel is
dangerous. To put up a brand founder, a celebrity,
someone who preaches all the wrong stuff, even though she has a Netflix series, she
has all these people working with her, all these "experts". To put her in front of
an audience, and try and say that this is how you can
use sunscreen safely, and appropriately, is absolutely ridiculous.
It's dangerous, and it's f*cking stupid. It's actually infuriating, because people
are going to be like, oh well I saw this, and
people, people, this is how a lot of people learn about skincare, it's
rewatching videos like this. I don't, I don't want to make this a
comment about the way she looks, but you can see sun damage, you can see sun
damage on her chest. The issue is, when you can see sun damage on someone,
I wouldn't take sunscreen advice from them. I know that sounds really, really
awful, and I didn't want to make this a comment about the way she looks.
Sunscreen is so important, not just because of the
anti-aging effects of sunscreen, but because of skin cancer. It's just so
important, and this is so dangerous, it's actually
so dangerous, it's infuriating. Let's carry on.
“This is our new Goop...” Sorry, and she used the tiniest amount, there's no point. If
you're gonna use sunscreen, use sunscreen, use the correct amount,
about two to three fingers. I use three for my whole face and neck.
“...Glow Lotion. So this is like a light moisturizer that you can put on,
it just gives your skin an amazing little
pick-me-up, just a nice glow.
I really wanted to start making beauty products because
at the time, there really wasn't a lot available
that was kind of beautiful, high quality, non-toxic products, and
there were sort of clean moisturizers that you could find at the health food
store, and then there were all of your
conventional ones, and that some of them, even the really expensive ones, had
crazy ingredients in them, like antifreeze, literally,
uh, so I didn't want that either...” Okay, okay,
okay. There will not be anti-freeze in your products. This is an example that
people within the clean beauty space use all the time,
oh it's got lead in it, you know, your skincare has the same thing that
products under your kitchen sink has in it. The
same argument goes here, it's the dose that makes the poison. Chemists are
clever people right, they know how ingredients work. The
perfect example, again, I always use is salt,
right, if you put a little sprinkle of salt on your,
what do you have salt with? Salad? No, what do you use salt in... I don't know, pasta?
If you put a little bit of salt over your dinner right,
it's not gonna kill you, not gonna kill you. If you sit there digesting a bucket
of salt, it's probably gonna kill you. It's the dose that makes the poison.
Everything in large amounts, water is going to kill you, it can kill you.
It's usually like, oh the same surfactant that's in your cleanser is in window
cleaner. Yes, of course it might be but in a
completely different amount, that's absolutely insane. It's just
not a valid argument, because it just doesn't mean anything, it doesn't make
sense. Again, I understand not wanting this in
your skincare, that's absolutely fine. If you prefer a brand that does that,
knock yourself out, do whatever but to then, there's a difference between
promoting your clean brand, and fear-mongering and just saying stuff, in
order to sell your product, and this is what makes it even more annoying, is that
she's a brand owner that's pushing this narrative, in order
to sell her products. Fear sells Goop, sells, in my opinion,
allegedly. Question everything you see when it comes to skin care,
do your research from many different sources as well, even when it comes to
professionals. You know, you have skincare
professionals arguing back and forth online as well, about what they think is
correct, and incorrect. So please vary your
sources, vary the people that you are
listening to. Again, all the links down below, I will also
post the usual list of Dermatologists, Chemists, Aestheticians, skin care
experts, that I trust with varied opinions as well. So you can
then yourself, go make an educated, I can't even talk anymore, educated
opinion about what you want to believe, and your philosophy when it comes to
skin care.
Sorry if that was rude, I hope it wasn't rude but you can watch more videos
here, and here, and I'll see you over there, bye.