Kristin’s concerned: I’ve been told that mixing skin care products from different lines can cause “chemical warfare” on your face. The argument was that skin care lines are formulated to work together, and that mixing product lines can cause unwanted chemical reactions that can irritate, if not harm, your skin. Is there any truth to this?
The Left Brain lets her know:
There is little truth to this and almost certainly no harm will come from using the products from two different lines. It’s possible that the fragrances from 2 different product lines interact but this is an extremely low probability.
Marketing companies often say that skin products (or hair products) are designed to work together but this is almost always marketing nonsense to get you to buy multiple products from the same line.
A legitimate concern is that you apply products in the correct order. For example, putting on a moisturizer before applying a sunscreen or a retinol cream can keep the active ingredient from soaking in. (The Right Brain has blogged before about the wrong way to apply sunscreen.)
The Beauty Brains bottom line
The only thing you’re putting in danger by mixing Mychelle, Perricone, and La Mer is your hard earned money!
What do YOU think? Do you mix and match products from different lines or are you a brand loyalist? Leave a comment for the rest of the Beauty Brains community.
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I completely agree. Using several different products from different skin care lines is certainly fine. I would suggest it’s relative to the person using it. For instance, one may have a skin reaction from the perfumes in the products, but generally speaking, most people won’t have a problem mixing skin care lines.
I am not a brand loyalist. I used whatever product works on my skin in that function without breakouts or irritation.
I don’t think that mixing brands will cause any harm. Its just a marketing ploy.
However, liking one product from a line will encouragement to try another at some point. Right now, I’m using two cleansers, one moisturizer, all my makeup are from totally different brands! No irritation on my sensitive skin.
I can be very loyal to a particular skincare line, but then like to mix things up as well. Great post!
Mixing skin care products not a good habit to have or make.It has a strong chance to harm our skin so badly that we may face many skin problems in future,so it’s better to use only one product that suits you the most.
There’s no proof that it will harm your skin. Where is your research?
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There is nothing wrong with mixing skin care lines as long as the ingredients don’t interact in such a way as to cancel each other out, i.e don’t use copper peptides and vitamin c or retinol and benzoyl peroxide.
I have never had a problem mixing skin care lines until now. Though I’m not sure it’s the mix that caused the problem but I used Kinerase, which I’ve used before with no problem, with Clinique, which I’ve never used before, and got horrible welts and burns all over my face and neck. I used the Clinique alone for 2 days without incident then on the third day I used both Clinique and Kinerase and all hell broke out.
OMG KAREN! same thing happened to me! i’ve never had a problem mixing products… but lately i’ve been using this clinique face cleaner with a claris toner and my face started having these red, burning spots! maybe there’s something in the clinique…
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