Most people have probably had a skincare thread or two pop up in their recommended feed on social media. Some of the advice is helpful - wash your face everyday, drink water. However, some accounts are obviously completely clueless about literally everything (or just won the genetic lottery) and it's clear that these tips will ruin your skin to everyboy othe than the thousands of followers these accounts have.
1. Lemon
You might think that this will cleanse your face - it might, but it'll also completely ruin your skin's pH balance and strip your skin dry. Whoever told you that stinging means it's working is a dirty liar.
2. Baking Soda
Would you put vinegar on your face? Bleach? No? Then why would you use baking soda? People brush their TEETH with baking soda, because it's strong enough to strip plaque away from your enamel. It might remove your acne, but it's going to take away a couple layers of skin, too (hyperbolically).
3. Sugar
Sugar and salt are too rough to be using on your face...they cause microtears in your skin which lets in more bacteria, making you more prone to breakouts in the long run.
4. Coconut Oil
Please don't do this. For every person who swears by coconut oil, there are a hundred whose breakouts got worse, because coconut oil is comodogenic and will clog your pores.
5. St. Ive's Scrub
They literally have a lawsuit against them because their products are that bad! It's the same concept as sugar - physical exfoliators with larger grains just end up creating microtears and also smearing bacteria all over your face if you scrub hard enough. Why???
6. Olive Oil
Maybe this might work for you. Maybe it'll clog your pores for weeks. Maybe it's better to stop blindly following the DIY Twitter threads who don't know what they're doing any more than the rest of us do.
7. Cinnamon
Its grains are still large enough to damage your skin's external layer. For the most part, looking through your kitchen to find what you can use for skincare is a terrible idea.
8. Toothpaste
Just like baking soda, it's incredibly drying and will just end up sucking your skin dry.
9. Vinegar
Who thinks of these ideas? Who genuinely believes that using vinegar will help your skin? Where are these ideas coming from?
10. Primer
There's nothing BAD about using primer, but does it actually DO anything? Or have companies realized that we'll buy whatever they tell us to buy if they make up a few facts?
11. Pore Strips
They work...for about five minutes. Then, your blackheads will get worse and worse, and you'll cry.
