SheKnows posted “Cotton as a skin care ingredient: Hip or hype?” featuring Dr. Purvisha Patel.
Need a calming, soothing, repairing skin care product? Dr. Patel told SheKnows she recommends using something with cotton in it!
The beauty benefits of cotton in your skin care
Cotton is known for many things: Breathability. Softness. Comfort. Hayden Panettiere. Now, aspects of the fiber are making their way into our skin care products as ingredients that supposedly calm, hydrate and repair our skin. With few studies to back these claims, we went straight to the experts to find out if beauty products laced with cotton outperform our cotton-free favorites.
So does this mean we should start stocking up on cotton-spiked skin care products? Not necessarily: While cotton has good hydration and anti-inflammatory properties, there are other ingredients that can also produce these effects. There’s really no way to tell if cotton-infused skin care products are “better” than the rest, since products have to be judged based on their ingredients as a whole and how they co-mingle. “Cotton-based skin care isn’t necessarily ‘better’ — just different,” says Dr. Purvisha Patel, owner and dermatologist at Advanced Dermatology & Skin Cancer Associates.