*sunflower oil (has more linoleic than oleoic) *grapeseed oil *coconut oil (not very occlusive, but good as a makeup remover - not very good on its own) *safflower seed oil - skin barrier repair *argan oil *avocado oil *borage oil *jojoba oil *sweet almond oil *rosehip oil - high lionelic acid *shea butter - good to be included in moisturizer //plants oils are not pure substances //cold press is better //natural oils aren't always better //some skin conditions can be worsened with application of oils //she uses oils to remove makeup thank you so much for this! so many other channels influence us to buy all these oils with the promise that it can help our skin conditions and we can get better skin. I absolutely love how you taught us that just because they're natural oils doesn't mean they're always better :) I have been saving a lot of money since watching your channel ♡
great list! but im confused supposedly argan oil is great for repairing of skin barrier and that oleic acid is bad for skin barrier however argan oil is rich in oleic acid can u pls explain thank you
When you mentioned that olive oil actually worsens the skin barrier, it reminded me of a time when an esthetician advised me to buy a facial oil that had mostly olive oil, to fix my breakout. It cost $80, so thankfully I was too broke to make that mistake. Lol. Sigh.
Thulisile Madi My husband suffered from eczema he used to see the dermatologist countless times a year; I advised him to start using extra virgin olive oil, he takes it orally and applies it to his skin, since then he hasn’t visited the dr in over 2 years. So I kinda disagree with the Doc here..
Hi there Andrea. Just coming back to rewatch many of your videos a year later. I also wanted to thank you. You, more than anyone, have single handedly transformed my skin care routine, in a positive way. I can not adequately express my gratitude for the time you devote to educate us on important skin care topics and ingredients. My life is better because of you. Bless YOU 🙏🏻
Gamma linoleic Acid? As a kid they came up a lot, and so borage and evening primrose oils were recommended. Or is that less to do with moisturising properties?
@@Siegn_Lukas my understanding is that oleic oils are very rich, and feel nice and moisturising, but don't necessarily do much healing. and then there are linoleic and linolenic and it all gets too complicated for me! i've had eczema all my life, and gamma linoleic acids (i think) are particularly reparative for that, but i don't know why.
I wish they would do studies on humans not animals. I’ll take one for the team. 😬. Coconut oil in the bath. OMG. It saves me from winter. Highly recommend.
True. As a researcher myself. (Literally, I had tried a lot of oils) I concur with you. I don't think people when using products take into consideration the aging process. When we are young and healthy anything will do wonders. We don't even understand that is our body working with what we add to it. Sometimes the body will react negatively sometimes it won't. And bam! It only take one person with a positive comment about something for a person who had lost all hopes to try the product. Guilty! Now that I'm in my forties all I want is a quick result. One product wonder. Not to mention our lifestyle. Smoking, alcohol, lack of sleep etc. Detrimental to our skin.
Dr. Dray, thank you so much for breaking down all the skincare hype. I'm 52 and anytime I walk into a Sephora or Ulta I'm bombarded with skincare products and advice from the SA's. It's so overwhelming. It makes me very happy to know that I don't need a million steps in my skincare routine. I have extremely sensitive skin thanks to rosacea and a mild case of perioral dermatitis so many of these products sold in stores really irritate my skin even when they are touted for "sensitive skin". So far, Cereve has been the most non-irritating products I have found. I do enjoy mixing oils in with my moisturizer so it is very helpful to know the difference between what's good and what can harm.
63 year old black male with chronic dry skin. Aquaphor has worked well in the past but it’s too greasy. I like Nivea’s intense healing lotion and many other premium lotions, but none of them last more than 4 or 5 hours. I recently started using jojoba oil and have seen a vast improvement in my skin. It seems to have brought back the natural elasticity to my skin. And though it gives my skin a bit of a sheen, my skin does not feel oily or greasy like when I use aquaphor. I tend to use the jojoba oil with a quality lotion and it really has transformed my skin
I personally love hemp seed oil. Castor oil is too thick for me. Macadamia is said to have similar properties to our natural sebum so that is meant to be good. Not a doctor here but have my own thoughts on these. Alas, castor oil is the cheapest of these and not my favourite.
Actually there's too much videos on RU-vid about oil benefits and their kinds but what everyone actually need is a method for mixing different oils for great skin. I hope you'll make a video on it cause it's really is what everyone is looking for 😌
My favorite way to use oils is right before I take a shower to prevent dry skin after the shower (rosehip or squalane). By the time I'm done, most of the oil has been washed away and I can continue on with my skincare routine. It really helps!
Emily Rachel Gilley that's literally one of the worst oils for your face bar none because of its clogging factor. Sqalane or jojoba are probably the best
OMG @Emily Rachel Gilley.. I lubed my scalp with that evil substance one night for an overnight "deep conditioning' treatment, and woke up in the middle of the night with my head on FIRE! On fire and itching like mad. I had to wash my hair 3 times. Then - of course :), I did it again, just in case it was a bad batch of oil.... same thing. All I hear are people raving about it... I will not have that stuff anywhere near my body :) :)
Angela Martorano it just proves once again we are all different! Coconut oil has been a godsend for me and my children. When I share my success with it to friends, I always tell them they could have an adverse reaction. But you and I are lucky! 😀
Happy Valentines Day Dr. Dray. I appreciate you so much. I started using oils early in 2017. I was looking for the moisturizing effects everyone was talking about. I would apply it at night feeling like I had really done something good for my skin. When I would cleanse my skin in the morning I would find my skin just as dry as it was the night before. I would think it was just me. you have really opened my eyes to the fact that they are not penetrating my skin at all. You are saving me so much money. Thank You.
Barbara Cossentino The same thing happened to me. Oils alone actually worsened my dehydration. I love how Dr. Dray is debunking all the YT misinformation.
Thank u soooo much for this video...and for saying that oils are NOT great for everyone..after i bought so many of them..being naive..youtube bought...going to my dermatologist only to hear to STAY AWAY from ALL oils due to my genetic acne condition!!thank you for informing all of us! YOU and your videos ARE ON FIRE!!!🔥
@@DrDrayzday Dr. Dray, What do you think about apple cider vinegar for hair scalp & skin benefits? It helped clear my skin using it as a natural toner.
I love your honest approach to sharing your knowledge on the myths behind the miracle oils that reverse aging. You’re simply the best! I always enjoy your commentaries.
The only oil that's ever really done anything for me was grapeseed oil. When I was pregnant with my son about 6 years ago, I developed pretty bad eczema on the tops of my thighs. Never had eczema before so I had to research what I even had. I tried about 6 different creams including my favorite cerave cream. The only thing that worked was just straight grapeseed oil. I used it twice a day and by day three it was gone! I used it every night while I was pregnant just to make sure it didn't flare up again and I've never had an issue with it again.
Love jojoba oil at our house. It is great at healing mild urine/poo burn on my kids - put a drop on them (on the front which runs down to the back) and by the next day they are usually 100% healed.
My personal favorites are rose hip, jojoba, and raspberry seed oil (not mentioned in the video). Contrary to popular belief, raspberry oil CAN NOT be used as sunscreen but it has a lot of other great benefits!
Oils never worked on my skin until I watched this video and did moisturizer+an oil (which I would have never done because I have oily skin) and my skin has become so much healthier and less oily for some reason. I just bought CeraVe face wash, I can't wait to try it!
Can’t thank you enough for this information! I’m a little confused now though. After watching this I was prompted to conduct some research into what components are actually necessary to moisturize the skin. I found that a moisturizer needs to contain a humectant, occlusive agent, and an emollient/s. Some sites indicated that certain oils CAN form an occlusive barrier, but in this video you mentioned that plant oils on their own can not form that occlusive barrier. Now maybe that’s because what you’re saying is that oils on their OWN, outside of a moisturizer, are not occlusive but inside a moisturizer they can be?
I worked for a plastic surgeon & Dermatologist… I know about olive oil, but people will insist on dying on that hill and get upset if you mention anything negative about olive oil… usually people whose mother taught them to use it .
It’s so moisturizing! My skincare friend recommended it and I put it on in the evening. It’s amazing how my skin feels in the morning. I’ve used coconut, avocado, castor, and almond oil for full body moisture. Now I’m going to use more of the ones Dr. Dray recommends.
I use high GLA’s on wet skin after a shower. It really seals in the moisture and builds the collagen... I don’t even dry off first... I just push the extra water off as I rub on the oils, which I mix myself... I just recently added Argan oil to the mix and it seems to make the oils soak in even faster than the jojoba oil does alone... After that soaks in and I’m dry, I spread on some body butter made with the same oils whipped with shea butter and cocoa butter... that creates a barrier that keeps my skin moist... My oil mixture is equal parts jojoba, avocado, almond, apricot kernel and kukui nut oils (and now argan) plus rosehip seed, carrot seed, evening primrose, borage and vitamin E oils in equal parts...
Love coconut oil as a makeup remover also like using rosehip and jojoba oil in winter under my moisturiser it just seems to add that bit extra. I find thick moisturisers seem to break me out so I find this method works better for me 😊
OMG! Thank God i found you. Now i dont have to repurchase my oils which really are expensive here. I love your videos. Please dont stop helping us. I love you for that. God bless you 😘😘
Tried it. Since then, seeing how it helped my dry skin keeps me from ordering it on a monthly basis. I just so love the result, i have tried a lot of argan oils already but this ESSENCE OF ARGAN is i would say the LEGIT one.you would see the difference in just a month. So imagine how helpful this product is once you regularly use it.
This video deserves more views. Very good overview - lots that I knew, and even more things I didn't know. I wouldn't knock using pure oils - it is something of a personality thing I believe. I didn't care two figs about skincare in general (maybe dab a little diluted Tea Tree oil on an inflamed spot if it was painful), creams and lotions and moisturisers, bleh! Just a chore, very seldom a nice feeling at all. And exceedingly rarely any visibly positive results. But one ages... And when I was stocking up on my Tea Tree oil I picked up a bottle of Argan oil. And wow! It feels nice on the skin! I actually want to apply it! My face feels nice when I wake up. And my prickly forearms are finally almost smooth and even (as long as I remember to give them a few drops of oil now and then). Got my husband to use it on his very very dry old hands - ridiculous results within 2 days. So the Argan oil got me a bit interested in cosmetics in general - maybe these things aren't so bad and stupid after all. Branched out into pure Shea butter (elbows and feet and lips), and eventually actual cosmetic creams - nothing fancy, just something that feels nice and has _some_ SPF. But when I'm lazy I just reach for my Argan oil and smear a few drops on my face and wherever (pro tip: avoid pumps and go for droppers, a pump delivers way too much). The last point about oils probably being better as ingredients than straight up is well taken, but for some of us oils just suit our personalities better.
argan did nothing for me, tried several brands, organic bla bla bla and one bought from my friend from morocco. I like rosehip oil, nothing mindblowing, but I actually saw some results from this one. so some things go better for some people than for others.
50 yrs of dealing with eczema off and on, as well as multiple docs, and this lady helps me sort it all out in one video! I swore some of those oils made me worse...could've avoided a lot of cost and trial!! Thanks again Dr. Dray...you're awesome!
Dr Dray why is sunflower and grape see oil hated by so many doctors then? A lot of doctors and experts are saying that they cause inflammation becaue of the unnatural way they are processed. 100 years ago those 2 oils did not exist until companies started processing and selling them. What's your take on that?
I tried using oils on my face for awhile. They didn’t do anything for me. After hearing what they can and can’t do on skin, I understand why. Thanks for the great information!!!!
Green Tree I love the CeraVe too but my absolute favorite is the Cetaphil Redness Relieving Night Moisturizer. It’s being repackaged so I’m having a hard time finding it in stores. I hope it’s restocked soon! Thanks to Dr Dray I’ve learned that I don’t need 10 products or to spend a ton to have great skin. Glad her advice is helping you too:-)
In Africa, you must use a skin care cream. My skin does tan but, I've used Shea butter-and Cocoa butter, as an 'aftersun' care routine. Thank you for all the information about plant oils. Great video!
I'm obsessed with skincare and let me tell you,I LOVE face oils.I used rosehip oil and I loved it,grapeseed oil as well and it makes me glow especially at night when I want to shine before I go to sleep.What do you think about cannabis oil,a lot of people say it's good for your skin,so what's your opinion?
I am currently using a brand called "Be Transcendent Skin" which is a plant-based skincare line. Some of the ingredients in their night time serum include: - Babassu Oil - White Willow Bark - Geranium Oil And their Day moisturizer includes: - Safflower Oil - Black Currant Oil - Clary Sage Oil - White Beeswax What do you think about these ingredients?
“Any oil is hydrophobic, including the oils that your face produces, which means that they’ll keep water from escaping. And that in turn keeps your skin hydrated. “Hydration is really a function of water balance, so oils help hold water in and prevent the environment from stripping water out,” Tyler Hollmig, M.D., director of Laser and Aesthetic Dermatology at Stanford Health Care, tells SELF.”
320Kad she loves Shea butter but thinks that would clog pores ... I don’t believe that cause ALOT of acne prone skins use it and swear by it. She also doesn’t mention that companies pay scientist to check their oils especially high end brands that make them. Some oils actually have natural spf in it and the bottles are colored or darkened to prevent spoiling. Oils also have a expiration date on them most last 2+ years.
Tamanu doesn't have an incredibly high linoleic acid content. and is a bit sticky and thick-ish. Not ideal for acne prone folk - at least not applied all over the face. I've experimented a bit with this....even Liah Yoo suggests to only use Tamanu as a spot treatment. (for acne, dark spot, etc) Hope that helps.
@@tamupari1230 what brand do you use as I have been using the same brand from my Indian Grocers but I've had the same bottle for about six or seven years now and I think it's going stale
I usually break out with oils, but didn’t realize it could be due to my fragrance allergy. The oil I see most on You Tube is cacay oil, it has more antioxidants than rose hip seed oil, and is said to be a natural Retin A. But I couldn’t find any studies on anti-aging, other than a small study by the company selling it. Plus, I wondered if the reduction of wrinkles shown in the study could be similar to a good moisturizer. I would like to try it on my neck, but not sure I want to deal with a product that degrades easily. As always, thanks for the detailed information!
Hi🙋♀️ Dr. Dray!😊 You are unquestionably my superhero!!!🤩🏆 no doubt about it!🙂 This is such an interesting topic. I have a hate💔🤦🤷 love💕 relationship with oils lol As much as I want to like them all, I know that I must treat with caution e.g essential oils are more likely to be irritating on the skin and possible to cause allergic reaction even, so I avoid those.....even though I enjoy using essential oils as a mood enhancer in my aromatherapy. Essential oils have been around for centuries, used by many cultures for illness, healing (like you mentioned) and religious purposes, they have most certainly come a long way and re-introduced to us in this modern time & age which I find fascinating. Many brands are bringing out all kinds of oils which can be mind-boggling to many, some oils look appealing, I would say however, use according to common sense. I have to admit I have been using cold pressed 100% Jojoba oil and Rosehip seed oil on my body (these are the only oils I apply on my skin & sometimes on my face🙄😏) I have been applying them for years now and love the results I get. I put 2-3 drops in my moisturiser and my dry skin feels softer, looks healthier & brighter plus there isn't any need to re-moisturise again during the day (which is fantastic) because my skin can be as dry as an alligator's lol BUT I do have it all under control now!!😇 Thank you Dr. Dray for being such a brilliant educator👩🏫 you are a shinning star🎇 and as always keep smiling🙂and take care!! Sending you big hugs💘💘
Natural product do not have consistency with every batches It's natural. Sometime batches have different ratio of fats. It is just better to stick to petroleum artificial products.
Merry Christmas Dr Dray! Since watching your videos I’ve retired all the scented oils I used to use on my face, which smelled great but were irritating - and just use Cerave, plus Tretinoin. My skin is no longer something I have so much anxiety about. Thank you for all your research, answering all the questions and the work you do! You are empowering a lot of people.
❤️🙏🏻 Happy Valentines Day Dr. Dray 🙏🏻❤️. You are a rock star! My skin has made a dramatic transformation since following your advice. Mitigating trans epidural water loss is life changing! My skin is so incredibly soft and the wrinkles are less visible. Thank you so very much for sharing your knowledge. Much respect and love to you. ❤️
Hi Sandra, I also follow Dr. Dray tips avoiding transepidermal water loss, by applying my moisturizer immediately after wash my face with the same results, that's priceless.
Hi Maria. I do the same for my face and body, but on my face I layer a few things and the results are blowing my mind! Water, a few drops of hyaluronic acid, a bit more water tapped on, cerave lotion, then an occlusive like Eucerin. I think I may start skipping the Eucerin or use it every other day, because my skin is completely hydrated now and the occlusive I don’t think is no longer necessary. I’m over 45, in a very dry winter climate, and my skin has never felt better! After one night of the new steps, my face was like a babies butt in the shower the next morning. I truly was amazed. I use to pile on expensive products, oils, etc and none of them resulted in the kind of improvement I have now. And I owe it all to Dr. Dray ❤️👍🏻
I've used plant oils, coconut, olive, grapeseed, and rose hip primary on my skin for years. But after a bad but of wind burn from a particularly cold blustery winter storm in NYS, I found that it wasn't helping. It felt almost irritating to my damaged skin. I switched to using cerave cleaner and facial lotions with excellent results. Now I use my stock of oils for removing makeup and on my hair ends. I find that double cleansing to remove my heavy makeup and heavier sunscreen works best. My skin feels soft and not stripped, and all traces of goop are off my face. And I don't break out. When I do get a pimple, it doesn't last as long on the face or skin this way. I had such good results from using oils as a first step in cleaning my face, that I started using this method on my body. Why not? I wear sunscreen everywhere, especially in summer. And it's helped to get rid of my body acne. I think it's because sunscreen is hard to wash off without stripping skin. Oils break up the sunscreen without scrubbing. Then the body wash has to clean off the oil before it reaches your skin, so it can't strip the skin of natural skin oils as much. I prefer olive oil on my face, coconut for lips and lips sticks that stain, and grapseed, which isn't as oily, on my body. Don't want to fall in the shower. My skin doesn't have any body acne, no severe winter dryness, no dry or oily patches. It feels like my skin is better able to absorb moisturizers and serums. I never feel tight skinned anymore. I realized this about 6 weeks ago. To have you verify this with this vlog means alot. I also use oil in facial masks. Honey and oil, the oil I use depends on the season and the dryness of my skin. 20 minutes on, then wash off. Not rinse. I use my cerave cleanser. I use my rosehip oil alot for this. All in all, changing how I use oil, from a leave on treatment or moisturizer to a cleansing agent has worked wonders.
This was also very helpful! I love cold-pressed rose hip seed oil, but now that i know it cant really penetrate the skin to moisturize i will adjust the amount that i use. thank you for the info!
@@Anna-ug8cq I know this is an old comment, but I noticed less bumps. Maybe because the oil helped prevent my skin from drying up? I applied it on wet skin
Hi Dr Dray! Love your videos 💘 If you use oil in order to wash off makeup, the time oil spends on your skin is seconds. How do you think, maybe this is not enough for molecules in oil to do their job in scavenging free radicals, penetrating between skin cells, help restore skin barrier, etc? From chemical perspective, all these processes are not fast reactions that can happen within seconds. So maybe using pure oil is useless if you can't leave it on the skin? Please like this question so Dr Dray can see it 🙏
Loved that you did this video! I recommend Paula’s choice skincare! They seem to know what they’re doing and they aren’t over priced, in my opinion of course . Your awesome Andrea😊
For me- Best oil for me hands down- Josie Maran’s cold pressed organ oil. only thing I splurge on for my face. Every other argan oil breaks me out. Second runner up: NOW’s grapeseed oil.
Thank you! I've used many plant oils, and I know some have been really bad for my skin. It seems difficult to find valid information online about which plant oils are actually good. It would be awesome if you did a video on other natural/diy skin care methods and let us know which ones we should for sure avoid.
there really isn't alot of actual rigorous data to support good vs bad....we do have good data that sunscreen and fragrance free mineral oil/pet based moisturizers do support good skin health
What made you decide to become a dermatologist if you don’t mind ? It’s inspiring to me how well knowledge you are and how much detail you provide talking about your passion. I’m just so intrigued what made you become so in to this!! Thank you for your time 😄
I thought parabens were bad for me, yet they are in my beloved 💕Cera Ve 💕 products 😢. I’m new but I can’t find that topic in your posts. I won’t use petroleum, mineral oil, parabens, chemical sun screens, or the rest of a list of ingredients that i either feel are unsafe or cause irritation.
What are the odds! Fortunately the moisturizer I use daily contains a bunch of the good safflower seed oil. No wonder I’ve seen such a difference in my acne scars! Linoleic acid is no joke when it comes up to healing and soothing.
I know you LOVE ceramides. Garnier Fructis as an Apple blah d blah shampoo and conditioner with contains ceramide. Is that a marketing gimmick or is there a role for cersmides in hair care? FYI, it smells yummy.
Coconut oil on my face is literally the only thing that makes me break out; I asked an esthetician, she said the molecules are too big to penetrate pores, so they sit on top & clog pores. If I use it it’s only for my body.
Just rewatched this after making the terrible mistake of leaving coconut oil on my face! Ouch! I don’t know why I did it...I’ve heard you say a million times about not leaving oils on the skin.
I put a few drops on a cleansed face before my moisturiser. I have noticed a significant improvement in the tone of my skin. I often also use it with camelia seed oil mixed in; again before my moisturiser.
tamara Wilson Hi Tamara. I use it nightly mostly on my neck and chest. I use Retin A nighty on my face, so I will put it on an hour later or so after the Retin A to lock everything in before bed. Sometimes I'll just put it around my eye area, instead of my whole face, it just depends on the night. It's a wonderful oil to use and my 50 year old face never seems dry. Hope this helps!
Andrea, TY for this! I almost bought rose hip oil from Trader Joe's. I think I'll pass cause of fragrance factor. I've been using grapeseed oil once a week for facial massage. I press a warm damp towel over my face and neck, apply a dime-size amount of oil, massage it in, , and wipe off excess oil with a warm damp towel. It seems to deep clean my pores. Stubborn whiteheads soften. After a couple of days, a gentle washcloth cleansing exfoliates them away. I don't think of grapeseed oil as moisturizer. I use it as massage oil. I chose it because I had it in my pantry and it is supposed to be one if the least comedogenic oils. I have old acne scars and enlarged pores that clog easily.
Dr Drey can you talk about plasma injections? The one that takes your blood, put it into a machine that spins to separate blood from plasma in order to inject the plasma into your face? It is used to rejuvenate. I know ppl that healed even their pimples!
Carolina Prexl it's called PRP platelet rich plasma. It can be injected into various areas of the face similar to the way fillers are for example under the eyes. But it can also be applied topically alone or in conjunction with some sort of microneedling which creates open channels for the PRP to better penetrate to the area where collagen is stimulated by this process. Additionally it can be injected into the scalp to stimulate hair growth at the follicle. It's relatively new in Dermatology but also has been used orthopedics and pain management to help heal chronic injuries to tendons and the like. It seems possibilities are limitless but it is still new so the research studies are ongoing. Insurance does not pay for any of these treatments it is all self pay and can be pretty expensive. A PRP video would be cool Dr. Drey!
I've been a devoted fan of ShiKai's Borage Therapy lotion for years. It has Safflower, Jojoba, and Borage oils as well as aloe and dimethicone, which I believe Dr. Dray mentioned is a great occlusive. And no fragrance!
Great video on oils; thank you! My love of oil may be more of habit rather than any actual benefit. I have used rosehip oil for years and it seemed to make my super oily skin become normal skin. Now, years later I have dry skin, but I still use oil. I use it in between two moisturizers (Neutrogena Hydroboost and Cereve PM. My skin is just use to having it!!
Question about Olive Oil: what if the company says its “naturally derived” and it’s very low on the ingredient list- is it still enough to harm the skin barrier? An example is Josie Maran’s Argan Cleansing Oil to remove makeup. Thanks in advance!
Ostana Sky im pretty sure that what dr dray means is that applying olive oil alone as a moisturizer is not a good idea but if a product has olive oil in it (example a moisturizer) then it wouldn’t cause harm
Can you do an essential oil review on what to use and not use on skin and other properties it can help as so into consuming the product than applying it to the skin. Thank you!! ❤
She does not recommend any use of essential oils as it is just fragrance. In a video, she stated teatree is potentially helpful but she’d rather use it as a toilet cleaner.
There's someone on here who raves about rose hip oil. I've heard it is used in place of a retinol. She claims her skin has never looked better & from her before & after pictures I see a big difference. She looks much more youthful. Anyone else?
Kathy, my reply didn't go through. What is GLA oils? I haven't much money but bought the rosehip oil. How do you use it? At night? I am using Retin-A. Tried Cacao Oil, very greasy, but heard it was stronger in Vit, A. Thanks for any help.
barbarac102 High GLA oils are the ones that Dr Dray described as being high in linoleic acids.. these have high Gamma Linoleic Acids, which are even better fatty acids... these are rosehip oil, borage oil, carrot seed oil, etc... jojoba oil, avocado oil, almond oil and other oils high in regular linoleic acids are often used as carrier oils for the GLA’s, helping to transport them deeper into the skin... most of these oils have vitamin E and some have vitamin C, as well... I have been using these oils for 30+ years and I am now over 60 and have NO wrinkles. I have a bit of sagging because I haven’t been using retinoids but I don’t have a single wrinkle anywhere... so they absolutely do work. I have used them successfully, despite having rosacea, and have never had an issue. I have just started using Differin to combat some skin thickening on my nose, tho ( a complication of rosacea), so we’ll see how that goes... I am also contemplating trying out freshly home made vitamin C serum to combat the sagging... We’ll see what effect that has...
Paula’s choice oil booster mixes ceramides in with it and no fragrant oils. Also they claim it’s a “booster” so you SHOULD mix it with a moisturizer as a boost. I enjoy it a lot. :)
Hi Dr. Dray! I love your channel and have learned so much! I have searched for a review of Shikai Borage Dry Skin lotion by a dermatologist and can’t find any. I gave been using Cerave daily moisturizer but it lacks something that my Retin A induced dry skin needs. I, on a whim, threw on the shikai borage dry skin lotion on my face and it worked so much better! Under my eyes are so red from the tretinoin and this lotion reduced it greatly within an hour! I am was just wondering your thoughts on this product?
Great video! I use a few drops of oil on top of my moisturizer periodically. I've heard oil under the moisturizer doesn't allow the moisturizer to penetrate. I think this supports the info you provided (?). It's difficult to keep up with it all, appreciate these videos.
@@Molly-yb4pz I hope she answers. I believe she'd say it's not good to apply oil to bare skin and leave it on. Doesn't she wash it off before applying a moisturizer? Blending the two is probably all right. I am NOT an expert in any of this, so we both hope @Dr Dray will answer.
Dr. Dray I'd LOVE to hear your take on the snail secretion, gold, and the caviar skin treatments. Your dry sense of humor is a great conduit for conveying the truths & fallacies these potentially "special" ingredients...
Thank you so much! I am going to make my own soap and I was using your videos as a guide for choosing the ingredients. I'm going to use sunflower seed, rosehip, argan, and grapeseed oils in my soap :)
