Patients frequently arrive for a consultation with a bag filled to the brim with elegantly packaged department store or facialist office products. They spend thousands of dollars on their “skin” when all they are buying is packaging.
A luxuriously opaque blue glass jar with silver or gold writing and substantial top opens to a “unique patented” complicated dispensing system whereby five different creams come out at once, each purportedly with its own benefit, can garner $500 easily at a department store.
Often, the patient will dump a bag of ten, fifteen, twenty of these stunningly packaged products on a table and ask me to evaluate their ingredients. Each jar appears to have been used once or a couple of times. To be perfectly honest, already knowing they have no anti-aging, anti-acne, or anti-wrinkle properties, sometimes I look at the ingredients for my own shock value to see what the latest fad is, or how one of the final ingredients is something that would actually work if used without everything else in the mix.
I would like for someone to explain to me why one would trust a department store salesperson or a facialist more than their medical doctor? If one thought about it logically, the only information a salesperson has, was given to him/her by their company and is what their company wants to be dispersed.
So too with many facialists. They are detailed by certain companies whose products they buy, and they tell their clients exactly what they learned from the companies’ salespeople. Or they have their own products which naturally are better than anyone else’s?
Actually, the story gets even worse with facialists, many of whom are treated in my office with botox, fillers, lasers, etc., and then assert that they do nothing for their skin except use their own products religiously. I can count at least five prominent facialists in this city that “abhor” botox when it comes to their patients, pointing out poor results in magazines showing their clients how bizarre it makes people look, all the while knowing the truest secret of them all – the fact that “no one sees the good results.”
Eventually — and sometimes when it’s too late, people realize that it is their Beverly Hills dermatologist who are medical doctors, who have had interminable, extensive training in the skin, that would have the most information on how and why a product works, whether it actually penetrates the skin’s barrier, whether it can be used on all skin types, whether it should be used on patients who have had a history of skin cancer, etc. or frankly whether a product works at all.
The products I recommend might not be packaged in the most elegant way, but there is no doubt in my mind that they work. I know what each one does and why and I also know whether the active ingredient is delivered in high enough quantities to exert its effect.
I use six products on my face every night – one right after the other, without waiting for any to dry. It takes me 30 seconds. In the morning, after my shower I use sunscreen only and then I’m off! Very low maintenance. Very effective results.
The idea that a dazzling box containing a majestic bottle with a divine cream of sumptuous consistency has anything to do with its effect on the skin, is just pure malarkey.
Click here or call The Kopelson clinic today to schedule an appointment
why a product works, whether it actually penetrates the skin’s barrier, whether it can be used on all skin types, whether it should be used on patients who have had a history of skin cancer, etc. or frankly whether a product works at all.
The products I recommend might not be packaged in the most elegant way, but there is no doubt in my mind that they work. I know what each one does and why and I also know whether the active ingredient is delivered in high enough quantities to exert its effect.
I use six products on my face every night – one right after the other, without waiting for any to dry. It takes me 30 seconds. In the morning, after my shower I use sunscreen only and then I’m off! Very low maintenance. Very effective results.
The idea that a dazzling box containing a majestic bottle with a divine cream of sumptuous consistency has anything to do with its effect on the skin, is just pure malarkey.
Click here or call The Kopelson clinic today to schedule an appointment
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