Skin Care: Is Anti-Aging a Scam?

Science Vs

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Education, Science, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 12.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to keeping our skin looking younger, what works? Retinol, hyaluronic acid, vitamin C? This simple question has become confused by the billion-dollar skin-care industry, which floods us with scientific-sounding claims about the chemicals they say we should put on our face. We find out the real science on what you need for healthy skin with Dr Natalia Spierings, Dr Szu Wong and Kirsten Drysdale. Find our transcript here: https://bit.ly/sciencevsskincare In this episode, we cover: (00:00) Chapter 1: Promises of the skin care industry (04:12) Chapter 2: Why do we get wrinkles? (06:36) Chapter 3: Can skin care products remove wrinkles? (14:15) Chapter 4: Can vitamin A cream reduce wrinkles? (21:30) Chapter 5: 99% reduction in fine lines! (26:55) Chapter 6: Moisturizers and sunscreen (29:00) Chapter 7: Is skin care a waste of money? This episode was produced by Wendy Zukerman, with help from Joel Werner, Rose Rimler, Meryl Horn, R.E. Natowicz, and Michelle Dang. We’re edited by Blythe Terrell. Mix and sound design by Catherine Anderson. Music written by Bobby Lord, Emma Munger, So Wiley, Peter Leonard, and Bumi Hidaka. Gimlet’s managing director is Nicole Beemsterboer. Fact checking by Diane Kelly. Thanks to all the researchers who helped us with this episode including Dr Yousuf Mohammed, Professor Chris Anderson, Dr Lifeng Kang, Dr Heather Benson, and Professor Sara Brown. Special thanks to Flora Lichtman, the Zukerman Family and Joseph Lavelle Wilson. Science Vs is a Spotify Original Podcast and a Gimlet production. Follow Science Vs on Spotify, and if you wanna receive notifications every time we put out a new episode, tap the bell icon! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Okay, so we're looking at into the mirror now.
0:03.9	How do you feel when you look?
0:05.4	I feel a bit confronted, to be honest.
0:08.5	Yes, I mean.
0:09.5	Osman is a very old made of mine.
0:12.2	And he's a little nervous to be on the show.
0:14.6	No, cool, I'm cool.
0:15.6	Yeah, it's cool.
0:16.6	Yeah, cool, cool, cool.
0:18.2	Okay, so we are looking at our faces in front of this giant mirror with incredibly bright
0:24.5	lights.
0:25.6	Tell me what you say when you look at your skin right now.
0:29.3	A few lines, four headlines.
0:32.2	I've had them like, when I was very, like maybe just after high school, they kind of
0:36.6	started and they've always just kind of been there.
0:38.6	So with this bloody lighting, we needed that.
0:40.8	So I could say.
0:43.1	What I could say was this vertical line between my eyes.
0:47.7	I call it my like science versus creaks.
0:49.7	Because it's a skeptical look.
0:51.9	It's a frown line.
0:52.9	It's a frown line.
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