"Vaseline Vibes: Navigating the Skincare Scene with Sass!"
Hey Beautiful!
It’s ya girl, Dr. Truth coming to you with the real deal as always. Let’s get into it!
As a young melanin princess, whenever I saw those Vaseline commercials with the off-white jar and the blue top featuring predominately white women, I thought, why are they putting something on their bodies that sound like should go in a car? #Petroleum #Vaseline = #Gasoline I know, it’s just the way my brain works!
Anyway, since they weren’t “talking to me”, I didn’t spend too much time thinking about it…even though that little jar has been holdin’ it down in millions of black and brown homes for years!
Then I noticed, a few years later, the same company, now “talking to me” about their new product, Cocoa Radiant. These women looked more like me, so I paid closer attention, plus my Momma always told me, Cocoa Butta was great for our skin! We used it. Quite a bit of it actually. Jar after jar after jar. Several years of wearing it, I noticed my skin did not glow like the black women on TV and it left me feeling itchy, actually. By this time, I was in already college. I made my own choices and I just stopped buying it. I can’t tell you what products I bought next, but I’m sure it wasn’t great either, considering my shopping was heavily budgeted for the Dollar Sto’!
So anyway, fast-forwarding to recently, I noticed a LOT of commercials with the beautifully, talented #ReginaKing My Spidey Senses went off, so I decided to do a little diggin’! #typical Do you know about www.ewg.org? They're like skincare detectives at a higher ranking than me! This site gives products ratings from 1 to 10 and guess where Vaseline is at? Welp, depends on which product we’re talking as this company now has over 120 products today! Here’s the low-down on the two product lines that I feel are the most popular!
Great news for the traditional Vaseline! It’s got a 1, which is the best possible score! But hold up! This is the “Vaseline ORIGINAL Healing Jelly” where the active ingredients is White Petrolatum, USP 100.0%. That still just doesn’t sound the healthiest to me but ok. The overall products rate a 4. Still not TOO bad…but KEEP READING!
Bad news, the Cocoa Radiant product line had around 10 different products and SEVEN of them rated between 7 to 9, which 7 thru 10 is of the WORST scores because the ingredients contain high hazardous chemicals. These high hazardous chemicals could contribute the following:
Cancer: Ingredients linked to cancer in government, industry or academic studies or assessments.
Developmental and reproductive toxicity: Ingredients linked to developmental and reproductive toxicity, a broad class of health effects that range from infertility and reproductive organ cancers to birth defects and developmental delays in children.
Allergies and immunotoxicity: Ingredients linked to harm to the immune system, a class of health problems that manifest as allergic reactions or an impaired capacity to fight disease and repair damaged tissue in the body.
Endocrine disruption: Ingredients may affect the proper functioning of the body's hormone system.
Click here for a complete list. https://www.ewg.org/skindeep/understanding_skin_deep_ratings/
Remember who I told you the Cocoa Radiant line was “talking too?” Exactly. Does anyone find this info interesting?
Here’s the link for the ratings for all of the Vaseline products:
https://www.ewg.org/skindeep/search/?search=vaseline
So, should you be slathering on that Vaseline oil? Well, homie, that's your call. I just want you to be informed.
Speaking of, there’s other products you can use in-trade of. I simply use 100% UNREFINED coconut oil, mixed with a bit of PURE Shea Butter and a splash of Batana Oil. Batana Oil is amazing! I get mine from RA Cosmetics on Etsy.com Please note, I do not currently gain any monetary benefits with this company..though I hope that will change soon as it takes time and money to give you guys this #unbiased #peerreviewed #research. I’ll never tell you to get something I don’t use myself! You know why? Cause the healthier you are, the easier it’ll be for me cause….I gotta live in this world wit’ you Micky Ficky’s!
With want,
-Dr. Truth