Short YouTube segment by Angela Caglia (esthetician and skincare formulator) arguing that the term “medical grade skincare” is meaningless: ingredient lists, not sales channel, determine product composition; clinical studies are not exclusive to doctor-only brands. Practical advice: check the first five ingredients (highest-percentage components) and look up any you don’t recognize to see if they suit your skin type.
All right. Something I would never do as an esthetician and skincare formulator of over two decades. I would never buy into the term medical grade skincare. There's no such thing. It doesn't exist. If it's sold in only doctor's offices, that's because the formulator wanted it to be sold in only doctor's offices. But in terms of the ingredients, they're just the same as anything that's in every big box retailer. There's no difference. If it were true medical grade, it would be a prescription to purchase clinical studies. Those are done by any skincare line. I'm a clean beauty skincare line and I do clinical studies. It doesn't have to just be a doctor brand to do clinical studies. So just know that anything that says medical grade doesn't mean anything at all. What you need to do is look at the first five ingredients of any skin care product because that is the most of what's in that product, the most percentage. If there are ingredients you don't know, please look them up and find out what they are and see if they're right for your skin type and know what you're buying.
