Save Your Money: Skincare Myths Debunked By A Cosmetic Chemist
You Beauty19 Feb 2024

Save Your Money: Skincare Myths Debunked By A Cosmetic Chemist

Officially, Michelle Wong is a doctor and beauty scientist. But to us, she's our ultimate skincare myth-buster.

She joins us today to teach us how to actually care for our skin without falling victim to trends and pseudo-science.

Plus, her ride-or-die favourite skincare ingredients and the ones she just can't get around.

LINKS TO EVERYTHING MENTIONED:

Alpha-H Melting Moment Cleansing Balm with Wild Orange Leaf Extract $69

Neutrogena Rapid Wrinkle Repair Retinol Pro+ .3% Night Cream $64

Paulas Choice 2% BHA Liquid Exfoliant $45

BEAUTY OF JOSEON Apricot Blossom Peeling Gel $14

Missha, Super Aqua Ultra Hyalron Peeling Gel $15

SKINFOOD, Peeling Gel, Pineapple $20

SkinCeuticals C E Ferulic Serum $242

La Roche-Posay Redermic Vitamin C10 Serum $60

L'Oreal Paris Revitalift Vitamin C Serum $30

Poems From The Lab Future Focus Vitamin C Serum $89

BEAUTY OF JOSEON Glow Serum: Propolis + Niacinamide $36

I'm From Rice Cream $32

Paulas Choice 10% Niacinamide Booster $52

Olay Luminous Niacinamide Super Serum $35.99

SUBSCRIBE:

Subscribe to Mamamia

Vote in the 2024 You Beauty Awards

Sign up for our free You Beauty weekly newsletter for our product recommendations, exclusive beauty news, reviews, articles, deals and much more!

Want to try our new exercise app? Click here to start a seven-day free trial of MOVE by Mamamia

GET IN TOUCH:

Got a beauty question you want answered? Email us at youbeauty@mamamia.com.au or call the podphone on 02 8999 9386.

Join our You Beauty Facebook Group here.

You Beauty is a podcast by Mamamia. Listen to more Mamamia podcasts here.

CREDITS:

Host: Erin Docherty

Guest: Dr. Michelle Wong

Producer: Cassie Merritt

Audio Producer: Leah Porges

Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.

Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribe

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Avsnitt(1505)

Mecca’s Best-Kept Secret & The New Augustinus Bader Vitamin C Serum

Mecca’s Best-Kept Secret & The New Augustinus Bader Vitamin C Serum

We’re all about high-low here at You Beauty. We’ll try and talk about it all, from a life-changing hair tie that’ll set you back 70 cents, to exactly what a $595 vitamin C serum feels like. On today’s...

19 Feb 23min

Style Inspo: The Heatproof Style Guide

Style Inspo: The Heatproof Style Guide

It’s February, it’s officially sweltering, and the struggle to stay chic without melting is very real. This week on Nothing To Wear, Chelsea is joined by curve model, content creator, and fashion insi...

18 Feb 34min

A $4 Cracked Heel Solution, Sleepover Makeup & Struggling to Afford Skincare

A $4 Cracked Heel Solution, Sleepover Makeup & Struggling to Afford Skincare

The dogs are out, and Kelly McCarren and Amy Clark are back answering your juiciest, cringiest and crustiest beauty dilemmas. On this episode of The Fix, Amy responds to a question from a listener abo...

16 Feb 23min

A $25 Fix-All Hair Mist & An Embargoed Serum For 12 Signs of Ageing

A $25 Fix-All Hair Mist & An Embargoed Serum For 12 Signs of Ageing

You’re not imagining it… we’re bringing you not one, but two recommendations-packed Spendy Savey episodes this week! But first, our beauty news correspondents Mollie and Cass unpack why the latest Gen...

15 Feb 31min

An Urgent Rhode Debrief: What We Would (& Wouldn’t) Buy

An Urgent Rhode Debrief: What We Would (& Wouldn’t) Buy

Wake up, rhode’s here! If there’s ever a time to break You Beauty protocol, it’s when Hailey Bieber’s viral beauty brand launches in Australia, right? Breaking beauty news doesn’t get much bigger, whi...

12 Feb 35min

Style Inspo: The Six Things This Stylist Would NEVER Let You Buy

Style Inspo: The Six Things This Stylist Would NEVER Let You Buy

Do you have a wardrobe full of clothes but nothing feels "you"? This week, Tamara is joined by personal stylist Hayley Cooper to reveal the six items you need to stop buying immediately. From the "ess...

11 Feb 35min

Mid-Life Skin Truths & BS Ingredient Myths With “The Menopause Whisperer” Dr Ginni

Mid-Life Skin Truths & BS Ingredient Myths With “The Menopause Whisperer” Dr Ginni

When it comes to peri, menopause and mid-life skin, today’s guest is ready to unleash some cold, hard skincare truths. Dr Ginni Mansberg is many things: Qualified GP and resident TV doctor on Sunrise ...

9 Feb 29min

Our Verdict On At-Home MicroInfusions & The Formula For Perfect Brows

Our Verdict On At-Home MicroInfusions & The Formula For Perfect Brows

From a foundation emergency to whether those viral at-home microinfusion tools are really worth the hype - plus the ultimate formula to great brows - we’re back answering all your beauty questions. Bu...

8 Feb 24min

Populärt inom Premium

mellan-himmel-och-jord-med-jlc
den-som-skrattar-forlorar-podcast-2
tutto-balutto
podme-dokumentar
filip-fredrik-svarar
jocke-jonna-sanningen-maste-fram
hogt-i-tak-2
en-mork-historia
svenska-mordhistorier
daddy-issues
seriemordarpodden
mardromsgasten
sillypodden
infor-ratta
blenda-2
sportbladets-premier-league-podd
bakom-galler
mordpodden
nhl-podden-med-bjurman-och-ekeliw
nemo-moter-en-van