Activated Charcoal -Is it worth the fuss ?

Off late I see a lot of girls are obsessed with activated charcoal based products …Well, I am one of those activated charcoal obsessed girls out there.I follow all those feeds raving about charcoal and try out that stuff.

Not only my curiosity ended with buying activated charcoal based products but also bought few charcoal capsules and tried my hands on DIY with it.I would check the results on myself when in doubt my sister would turn out to be my muse.Aren’t Sisters meant for those musing things?

I have been trying out various products.

An article which I read was an eye opener and only then I searched stuff about it to know if it is actually a magic ingredient as it is proclaimed to be.

COAL-LADEN PRODUCTS –IS it worth the hype?

Activated Charcoal has a long history of usage in emergency medicine for poisoning cases .it is used in medical field to absorb the toxins/ poisonous gases from our system.The ingredient is made to be believed as a magical product and everyone started looking for charcoal based products be it skin care, hair care, personal hygiene such as toothpaste, detox supplements and in many other forms .

Activated charcoal is a cleansing agent which is porous and which is why unlike other cleansing agents binds well with compounds to trap dirt , grime and other impurities .It does its job of cleaning up .that’s it..There is no evidence to support consumption of activated charcoal detox things as beneficial.

And coming to the blackhead whitehead removal part , I personally tried such peel off masks or strips and seen only white pore kind of thing being stuck to it and believed to be whiteheads .

Dermatologists in reality claim those to be sebaceous filament from the skin gets tugged to all peel off masks and not really those white or black heads …Also, peel off masks/strips are said to remove natural oils and a top fine layer of skin . However, it was very much hard for me to digest this who was very much obsessed with charcoal peel offs .!!!

On a concluding note ,I am not here to discourage any such products but loving to share what I learnt.

If you want to indulge in such coal laden goodies, well you can try those .It’s not going to harm you , but just know it’s not the magic portion either .

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