Sassy Hassy
Well-Known Member
Okay bear with me on this one as this is a result of reading all those books I recently bought! This is what Paul Begoun has to say about Oxygen facials in her book The Beauty Bible ...
"Here is the most pathetic but clear-cut demonstration of how insane the world of cosmetics truly is. After selling us products to ward off oxygen's effects on the skin (the word antioxidant means anti-oxygen), the beauty industry then sells us products that claim to provide oxygen to the skin. Doesn't the beauty industry have anything better to do?
Oxygen depletion is one of the things that happens to older skin. Unfortunately, delivering extra oxygen to the skin doesn't reverse it. Oxygen on the surface may affect the very top layer of skin, but so what? How much extra oxygen does skin need? No one knows. Can it be absorbed? No. Plus, none of this answers the question about oxygen generating more free-radical damage."
Now logic tells me that what she is saying is correct, but somehow it doesn't seem right! I mean after all Free Radical Damage IS the key topic about skin damage, and one of the main factors of this is the unstable oxygen molecules that lose an electron so scavenge the good cells to grab a new one. That cell in turn scavenges for an electron off another cell and so it becomes a domino effect. An ANTIoxidant is able to donate that lost electron and so stop the domino effect.
So if on the one hand we are saying your body needs ANTIoxidants and one of the main selling points of so many beauty products now is they have ANTI oxidants in them ... then why does OXYGEN therapy not just create further free radical damage as Paula states?
This is not intended to knock people's brands or machines ... but I am so confused and my mind is too logical to accept "it just does".
At the moment though Paula has saved me thousands on equipment as the jury is very much out with me!
"Here is the most pathetic but clear-cut demonstration of how insane the world of cosmetics truly is. After selling us products to ward off oxygen's effects on the skin (the word antioxidant means anti-oxygen), the beauty industry then sells us products that claim to provide oxygen to the skin. Doesn't the beauty industry have anything better to do?
Oxygen depletion is one of the things that happens to older skin. Unfortunately, delivering extra oxygen to the skin doesn't reverse it. Oxygen on the surface may affect the very top layer of skin, but so what? How much extra oxygen does skin need? No one knows. Can it be absorbed? No. Plus, none of this answers the question about oxygen generating more free-radical damage."
Now logic tells me that what she is saying is correct, but somehow it doesn't seem right! I mean after all Free Radical Damage IS the key topic about skin damage, and one of the main factors of this is the unstable oxygen molecules that lose an electron so scavenge the good cells to grab a new one. That cell in turn scavenges for an electron off another cell and so it becomes a domino effect. An ANTIoxidant is able to donate that lost electron and so stop the domino effect.
So if on the one hand we are saying your body needs ANTIoxidants and one of the main selling points of so many beauty products now is they have ANTI oxidants in them ... then why does OXYGEN therapy not just create further free radical damage as Paula states?
This is not intended to knock people's brands or machines ... but I am so confused and my mind is too logical to accept "it just does".
At the moment though Paula has saved me thousands on equipment as the jury is very much out with me!