i am aged 23 years old and have slightly oily skin

as a teenager i did not have acne and my parents, siblings or grandparents have NEVER has problems with spots

reaching the age of around 20 from reading magazines and gaining more interest in beauty products i started to use moisturisers, cleansers and face washes

around the age of 21 i got a few spots on my face, which eventually became acne. i read up on this and went to my doctors and they suggested using antibacterial oil-free products.
i bought every product under the sun, the ones which worked for me were the oil free products, so i gathered that my spots were caused from excess sebum.

from then on i used oil free products which worked a treat, my acne cleared up and i only got a spot now and again.

in the same year i got acne i went on holiday and i also had trouble with prickly heat, i learnt this is where your pores get blocked in the sun and sweat cannot be released from your skin causing a rash, i found it was certain aftersuns that blocked my pores and gave me prickly heat. one product that didn’t give it to me was garnier soothing aftersun milk.

every year after the prickly heat incident i used the garnier product and never got it again!

i have recently been on another holiday and again i used ganier but a SPRAY version, half way into the holiday i got prickly heat!!!

i thought what is different?? surely it is the same product?? NO!! the only ingredient that is different is Mineral Oil! i intstantly stopped using it and the prickley heat went.

when i realised that mineral oil was causing my pores blocking on my body i thought it may have the same affect on my face, so i decided to go out and buy oily face moisturisers but avoid products with mineral oil….

And WOW!!! my face has never been better, really moisturised and spot free

i hope this helps other people because i glad i did my research

at the end of the day it blocks my pores so i am sure it will block other peoples too

You’ve got a lot of nerve spewing your hatred and filling our site with your ad hominem attacks. You don’t know the Beauty Brains and you obviously don’t have an open mind that could look at all the science before coming to your biased conclusions.

Please provide real references for your sources. We’d be happy to look at any new science that we haven’t seen and make our own conclusions.

The studies have been done by companies other than beauty companies, think again. Check out toxicology reports from those very UNBIASED doctors, students, and researchers from Cornell University and Oxford University. Those are two places for you to start. There is a SLEW of info available from sources that are NOT trying to sell you anything.

I think that you will find that thebeautybrains is full of crap to keep her advertisers happy.

B

Nicole,
You’re right. Mineral oil is cheaper than things like some natural oils. At least it was. With the way oil prices have increased, the price of petroleum derivatives are way up.

But still cheaper than naturals so big companies are more inclined to use the ingredient over natural oils. There just hasn’t been a good economic or performance reason to switch. When there is, big companies may switch.