“Get ready with me” TikhakAttracting millions to see influencers and walking through their skin care routine.
But recently, a new wave of frame content enterprises enters: middle school students or even children with no more than seven sera, eye creams, and scraps on already sensitive youthful skin.
Now, new research has confirmed that these types of videos can expose teenagers to the risk of lifelong skin sensitivity.
Maria Vikowska
A new study review of the peacocks from Western Shamali MedicineAnd published today on June 9 in pediatrics, raising red flags about the famous trend of teenage skin care procedures on social media.
The study is the first of its kind to study the skin and psychological risks associated with these Viral beauty systems.
The authors have found that girls between the ages of seven and 18 years apply on average six different skin care products per day, with some layers more than ten.
The corresponding author, Dr. Molly Halliz, a post -PhD research and a dermatologist approved in the Department of Dermatology at the Faculty of Medicine at Northwestern University in Finnberg, said, “
The financial cost is also regarding. Average teenage skin care routine costs $ 168 a month, according to the study, as some have reached up to $ 500.
Despite the noise, the routine often neglects the basics: only 26 percent of sunscreen – critical supervision, especially for the development of the skin.
However, it is not just money lost. The study found that videos of skin care that were displayed the highest active ingredients on average 11 potential active ingredients.
This cocktail of acids, feetteneoids and perfumes increases the risk of developing allergic contact skin – a lifelong skin allergy that can permanently restrict a person’s use of some soap, shampoo and cosmetics.
“This high risk of irritation came from both using multiple active ingredients at the same time, such as hydroxy acids, as well as applying the same active ingredient unveiled over and over again when this active component was found in three, four or five different products.”
In a video analyzed, the content creator applied 10 separate products in just six minutes. By the end of the clip, her face was red and clearly disturbed.
“While you apply products, you start expressing discomfort and burning, and in the last few minutes, you are developing a clear leather reaction,” said Dr. Tara Lago, a reporter of medicine and medical social sciences in Fennberg and the former Western Shamali Hospital.
The researchers also noticed worrying Aesthetic aesthetics and messages From these viral videos.
“We have seen that there is a preferential ethnic language coded in some cases that truly confirmed lighter and brighter skin,” said Lago. “I think there are also real connections between using these systems and consumption.”
The researchers concluded that the videos tend to provide a few or non -health benefit to children who watch them. However, it is almost impossible for parents or pediatricians, thanks to the unreliable algorithms page that Power Tiktok is “for you”.
“We are putting a very high level for these girls,” said Halis. “The pursuit of health has become a kind of virtue in our society, but the ideal of” health “has also greatly concluded in a parable of beauty, thinness and whiteness. The malicious thing in” skin care “is that it claims to be related to health.”
Funding for study has been provided by the National Institute for Arthritis and Muscle and December Diseases at the National Institutes of Health (Grant No. 5T32AR060710-11). Among the other authors in the northwest are Dr. Amy Baller and Walter Lizusky, and medical student Sarah Regali.
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