The beauty industry creates unrealistic standards to manipulate consumers! #realitytransurfing

11 Jun 2023 · 1 min

Watch on YouTube

0:59

In this personal YouTube monologue, the speaker reflects on years of spending large sums of money on conventional beauty products that ultimately irritated her skin and produced opposite results. She describes abandoning all traditional cleansers and soaps in favor of a minimalist oil‑only routine, using apricot or avocado oil (sometimes blended) applied to the face, followed by a hot rag, and the same oil for full‑body moisturization. The speaker laments the beauty industry's creation of unrealistic standards that manipulate consumers, describing the emotional toll as a "pendulum" tearing her apart, and expresses regret that she could have achieved better skin health simply by using oil all along.

Chapters

I would do all these things to make my skin look beautiful, and it would irritate my skin, and I would get the exact opposite results. I do one thing with my face now. I wash my face with oil. I don't use any face soap ever. I just put oil on my face. Usually, it's apricot oil or avocado oil, sometimes I mix them. I put oil on my face, I put a hot rag on my face, And that's how I wash my face. And I put the same exact oil on my face and all over my body to moisturize my face. So, all I'm really putting on myself is oil. That's it! Just oil. And my God! Talk about a Pendulum just tearing me to shreds! The thousands, tens of thousands of dollars that I've spent in my life on beauty products. I could've just been using oil!