Lately, I have noticed how people are becoming more about selfcare. In selfcare they are focusing on personal health , skincare, dietary routine, fitness, etc.
Awareness about skincare ingredients and treatments , especially for concerns like pigmentation and melasma. And one ingredient that is most loved in dermatology and cosmetology for its role is : TRANEXAMIC ACID
What I personally find interesting is that it was originally used to control excessive bleeding, and now it has become popular for skincare use.
Tranexamic acid is being used in serums, creams, and even oral therapies. But at the same time, I feel because of social media people started experimenting with such a active ingredients on their skin without proper consultations and understanding.
As someone coming from Dental background and currently working in the skincare pharmaceutical field, it is fascinating to witness such a quick evolution towards science-based skincare solutions.
Skincare trends are growing massively and will keep changing in future, but again, there should be proper understanding of science behind every use of ingredient and treatments should be followed necessarily.
What are your opinions on this ? Is really science- backed skincare is influencing people’s way of approaching skincare ?
I never knew about this ingredient.To answer your question, I dont think science backed skincare is really influencing people’s way of approaching skincare,it is mostly the social media influencers that use certain product show results.If those results seem effective people dive into using those without knowing the science behind it.
Tranexamic acid has been used specifically in treatment of Melasma. It was an accidental finding while treating urticaria, that it lightens melasma pigmentation. Hence, for years it has been used. But surely social media plays key roles in highlighting them as beauty industry has skyrocketed. People started obsessing over Aesthetics, not that it’s wrong to feel, to look a certain way. But obsession over health, it’s debatable. What do you think ??
It is used for medicinal purposes in melasma and acne, but social media and influencers are succeeding to a great extent in promoting it as a beauty product without knowing the science behind it.
This is something new to me. Sometimes the same medicine will have multiple therapeutic uses, which may be discovered later. But what I feel is that blindly following the social media trends must be stopped.
Tranexamic acid has grown popular recently, and many skincare brands launched their products with this as their main ingredient in recent times. Though tranexamic acid has science backing it up in its role to treat skin conditions, I still feel it’s better to use such heavily concentrated and potent products with a doctor’s or dermatologist’s prescription alone. Social media and the internet have made a lot of information accessible to people. What they understand is it’s good for pigmentation, but what the general public doesn’t understand is when to use it, how much to use, whether their skin even requires it, or not. It’s really shocking that many products like glycolic acid, retinoic acid, tranexamic acid, and how can we forget glutathione, are being purchased like mere OTC drugs nowadays.