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Dr. Daniel Sugai
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“If you have any target areas with flaking in the eyebrows or on the nose, around the cheekbones that you want to treat, go ahead and use some Vaseline or [Aquaphor].”
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“If you have any target areas with flaking in the eyebrows or on the nose, around the cheekbones that you want to treat, go ahead and use some Vaseline or [Aquaphor].”
▶10:44“After coating the skin with hyaluronic acid, I put on a thin layer of Aquaphor about half an hour later. Aquaphor is really all you need for post treatment moisture.”
▶65:36“I also keep Aquaphor on me after 40 as an alternative to Vaseline. It's not comedogenic in the way people think, the molecule is too big to penetrate the pore, and it helps repair the skin barrier, which can get impaired back and forth after 40. When my skin feels particularly sensitive I'll put it on top of everything, or some nights I'll just wash my face, let it air dry a bit, and put it on. By the time I wake up my skin feels so much better.”
▶16:20“Now, at night, I like something a little bit more robust like [Aquaphor].”
▶14:05“Aquaphor works too. Neither it nor Vaseline contain antibiotics that your skin can react to. Moist wound healing is what promotes healing and minimizes scarring and infections, and plain petrolatum delivers that without any allergy risk.”
▶4:15“Plain Vaseline, [Aquaphor] will work the exact same way when it comes to efficacy, and you're not subjecting yourself to any risk. If you want your minor wounds to heal the best, we want to wash them regularly and keep them moist. So, every day, you're going to use an antibacterial soap to gently wash the area. And then you can apply your [Aquaphor] or your Vaseline and then keep it covered.”
▶5:29“No list would be complete without this product that's been around forever and it's just [Aquaphor]. And it's just such a gentle product.”
▶5:20“Aquaphor is a great product. It does contain something called lanolin, which comes from sheep's wool, and there's a small percentage of people who are allergic to it. I've had patients who used Aquaphor on their lips all the time and got a rash around their mouth, and they couldn't figure out what the problem was, so they kept putting on more Aquaphor because their lips kept getting more chapped. In reality they were just allergic to the lanolin, and once we switched them to plain Vaseline they did much better. That said, this isn't a common reaction, not many people are allergic to lanolin, so if you like Aquaphor you can definitely use it.”
▶13:39“Now he's right to use only [Aquaphor] really for a few weeks.”
▶1:57“Aquaphor is my lip holy grail. Tried and true. [...] I for years have used Aquaphor to hydrate my lips, but I also love using it for slugging. I mean, it's just great. I will always love Aquaphor.”
▶12:26“Before putting your retinol on, in order to avoid it creeping into these areas, I do suggest putting a little bit of petroleum jelly ointment, Vaseline, Aquaphor, [CeraVe] healing ointment to these areas to prevent it from penetrating and accessing that skin because it can be very irritating in the long run.”
▶7:54“A lot of times patients will put Aquaphor over that skin to keep it relatively moist.”
▶4:26“So, I went from using Vaseline to [Aquaphor] to [CeraVe] to Prequel because each of them was more elegant than its predecessor.”
▶8:10“I really love Aquaphor, that one is great. Aquaphor does have great petrolatum ingredient, glycerin, panthenol, but does also contain lanoline, which is derived from sheep wool, so if you have a lanoline allergy then you may want to just stick with plain old petrolatum or try something else. Anything with petrolatum based is great for sealing the extra moisture.”
▶9:36“Aquaphor even comes in a spray bottle that you can put directly on top of that cream to provide extra protection. It's sealing in that moisture and preventing epidermal water loss.”
▶11:12“Objectively speaking, Aquaphor is the winner in this category. It's a catchall solution, you can put it on your elbows, your lips, your feet, you can slug with it overnight, it just has so many uses. All that said, I don't really like putting it on my face, it works great, but the feel could be better, which is exactly why I also pulled out the Versed barrier balm. Subjectively I prefer Versed, but objectively Aquaphor gives you more for your money because of all the uses it has.”
▶18:38“Or the diaper rash cream”
▶26:12“I'm going to use Aqua for cuz it's right here so why not”
▶7:43“I'm a huge fan of Aquaphor. I like using it on my lips, on my elbows, on my cracked heels, for any cuts and scrapes. It's just a really great multi-purpose protectant bomb, and it has mainly petrolatum but some formulations of it also have glycerin and babol and panthenol, which all help to kind of soothe the skin and really protect that skin barrier. I would definitely say cleanse, then do salicylic acid pads, then maybe use a very light moisturizer or oil, and then I would do the Aquaphor as the final step.”
▶7:21“I think Aquaphor is a good chapstick. It has a high petrolatum concentration. It is pretty nourishing. Other surgeons I know do use it post-operatively for wound care because there's not a whole lot of ingredients. The only ingredient that I've known that has the potential to be problematic in it is the lanolin, and I know that there's some controversy with that too, but that's the only ingredient I was on the fence about. Overall, I think it's a good product, good chapstick.”
▶15:13“I use Aquaphor on my feet with socks, and I think that's a classic. You can use it anywhere—on lips and whatever else.”
▶26:51“Aquaphor is mostly just petroleum jelly and water free, so there's a lot less chance of stinging.”
▶4:49“It seems like she might potentially use some budget products in her routine, which is really refreshing to see things like Cetaphil and Aquaphor.”
▶20:42Aquaphor holds an overall Guru Score of 89%, our read on how warmly the experts talk about its products across the catalogue.
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