Teenagers: Skin Care on Tiktok can be harmful, like the « Get Ready with me » beauty routine tutorials

If you attend Tik Tok (or other social networks) Even just to check what your teenage children watch, perhaps you came across the videos that are titled « Get Ready with me », in which boys and girls talk about the most and the least in front of the mirror making the so -called «Skin Care« , Or »beauty routine»Evening or morning.

Obviously, while they speak to the followers, they comment on the quality of the skin products who are using and, from the least famous creators to the best known (which they therefore earn showing certain brands), almost all of them explicitly mention brands of cosmetics or creams referring to the list or links of the products in the individual profiles.

High risk of skin irritation and allergies

A revised study, conducted by Northwestern Medicine University and recently published in the scientific journal Pediatrics, he examined a hundred products mentioned in the videos, studying them The effects on the skin (and the costs).
The research was conducted through the opening of a false 13 -year -old profile and the collection of « skin care » themed content recommended by Tik Tok in the « for you » section. Have been selected 100 videos and collected the demographic data of content creators, the number and types of products used and the total cost of the routines, with a total final list of the products used with the related ingredients.

Too many products together

Scientists found that girls from 7 to 18 years they use on average 6 different products On the face in succession (some use more than a dozen) and that these products, advertised in particular among the younger consumers, involve a high risk of skin irritation and allergies.
The study found that the most viewed videos contained On average 11 potentially irritating active ingredientsexposing the creators of content to the risk of skin irritation, sensitivity to the sun and Allergic contact dermatitis.
« This high risk of irritation derive from both theContemporary use of multiple active ingredientslike hydroxy acids, both from the unaware application More and several times of the same active ingredientpresent in three, four, five different products, « said Dr. Molly Hales, dermatologist researcher of the Department of Dermatology of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Sun protection

Scientists have estimated that the videos and practices proposed offer scarce or null benefits (and in power also damage) to the pediatric population to which they turn, however, noting how it is not possible to really know if a content aimed at a 13 -year -old boy is not seen also by much smaller children.
In addition, the authors pointed out that only 26% daytime routines included products with sun protectionan important detail for skin care in summer for any age group, in particular for children.

Creators who speak of health without titles

« The insidious thing about the » skin care « is that it claims to be focused on health », the authors write: a conviction in itself questionable because anyone on Tiktok can post videos that propose routines defined as « healthy » without any scientific or academic validation.

Scientists also highlighted that « the ideal of health proposed in the videos analyzed is closely linked to canons of beauty, thinness and candor » proposed with a language that communicates racial ideas or prejudices In a thin way, often masked by neutrality.

Finally, scholars have made an estimate of the average cost of the routines: the sum of all the products used totaled on average 168 dollars (with creams that would last about a month with daily use), but there were products that together also reached the final account of 500 dollars.

All in effect on the skin if it is fine neutral, mostly questionable, sometimes frankly harmful. Like any practice that involves health, The valid and safe advice They are more than on the net in the clinics of the medical specialists.