What to NEVER Put On Your Face - Dr. Anthony Youn

You will be surprised to know that there are certain things that you think are good for

your

face

, but they are not. My name is Dr. Anthony. I am known as America's Holistic Plastic Surgeon and I help health-conscious women over 30 look their best by teaching them. a holistic approach to health and beauty and today I'm going to go over with you my top five things you should

never

put on

your

face

and I bet you'll be surprised by some of the things I have on my list of the top five things you should avoid on your face, well let's start with number five, it's bar soap, I'm a guy now, you know, I've applied it, I've used bar soap to cleanse the skin on my face countless times like most other men and probably most other women, but bar soap is not good for washing your face with bar soap, it is very drying to the skin and often contains sodium lauryl sulfate.

This is a substance that makes the soap foam a lot because we like to foam, no. Well, unfortunately, that same soapy substance can really dry out your skin, so use a bar of soap on your body if you want, but keep it away from your face. My fourth thing to keep away from your face is Vaseline, so your mother or grandmother may have applied it to your face or lips and it was and has long been seen as the best moisturizer natural. Well, look

what

it is. Gelatin is not so bad, but oil. It was actually discovered at the bottom of basically oil barrels and this is where it comes from and this is not good for your skin, it can also clog your pores, it's very occlusive so if you have a history of any kind of It's not good apply acne to your skin, so stay away from Vaseline.

Honestly, throughout the body, there are some natural ones made from beeswax that I would use instead of petroleum. Another thing you should avoid is body moisturizer. Body moisturizer is great for your body, but it's not so good for your face, and like Vaseline body moisturizer, it can clog your pores and cause you to break out. Now you can go to the store. You can buy body moisturizer in these big jars for just a few dollars, as long as it doesn't contain harmful ingredients as unfortunately many of them do, then it's not a bad idea to use it for your body, but for your face, pair it with a good facial moisturizer.

We have one in my yoon beauty line that is made with natural and organic ingredients called soothing antioxidant moisturizer. It's a great moisturizer for your face, it doesn't clog pores and it contains antioxidants, so use a moisturizer like that made for your face, not one made for your body. Well, my number two is isopropyl alcohol. Now, astringents, you may have heard of that or toners often contain alcohol and they give the same sensation as rubbing alcohol on your skin and that sensation is basically a nice, clean, squeaky, cooler sensation and it feels good put it on your skin, but

what

it basically does is eliminate all the oils from your skin and there are people who have very oily skin, have acne problems, excess sebum and think that using isopropyl alcohol or astringents can eliminate that oil, but what?

What happens is it gets rid of the oil temporarily, but then your skin realizes it's lacking oil and creates even more oil in response, so what can happen is you can get into this vicious cycle where if you have the oily skin and When you use isopropyl alcohol or alcohol astringents or toners, your skin becomes increasingly oily, so stay away from this. Interestingly, a lot of people who have oily skin do very well with oil cleansing, cleansing your skin with oils and that's something that we're going to cover in a different video, so stay away from isopropyl alcohol, stay away from astringents and toners that are full of alcohol too, so I know you're wondering what's my number one thing to avoid putting on your face and this.

One is going to be a little controversial, yes there are sperm facials that are very popular. People are literally selling sperm facials for hundreds and hundreds of dollars and there is a belief that basically applying semen or sperm to your skin is really good. Well, the reality is probably pretty far from what people say, well, because it contains antioxidants, it's good for the skin, I mean, marginally, but we haven't really tested how many antioxidants there are, the other thing is that people say that contains many. protein, well, meat also contains a lot of protein and we don't necessarily apply meat to our skin, right?

The other thing with semen and sperm basically is that it often holds well, sometimes I guess depending on the company you keep it with. It can contain sexually transmitted diseases, so chlamydia in the eyes is not that fun, so this is kind of fun, again, there are places that have these types of facials, but it's not necessarily something I would use as beauty product, so I hope. That this has been educational for you, so take a look, subscribe, like this video, comment and check out, check out these other videos we have coming soon.