Chocolate Equals Breakouts
All the chocolate addicts can rejoice that this is completely false. Studies have been conducted and have proven that pimples are caused from factors such as extreme stress or dead skin cells blocking pores. However, your diet can affect your skin positively if you eat fresh fruits and raw vegetables, and drink lots of water to help clear out the toxins in your body.
Split Ends Can Be Repaired With Conditioners and Masks
There is only one way to rid your hair of split ends and that is to cut them off. Ordinary conditioners cannot fix split ends and masks are meant to hydrate the scalp and coat the hair. There are types of conditioners, called ‘pack’ conditioners, that virtually glue the split ends together, but they are not healthy for your hair because they do not wash out. If you have a split end problem, you should probably get haircuts every 4 to 6 weeks to prevent the split ends from “riding up” the hair strands.
Dry Skin Causes Wrinkles
The reason you use skin moisturizers is to maintain elasticity of skin, not to prevent wrinkles. Wrinkles are actually caused by the sun’s harmful rays, which is why you should always wear sunscreen and sunblock. This leads me to another beauty myth, one that claims you don’t need sunscreen in winter or at night. Just because you don’t see the sun, doesn’t mean its rays aren’t affecting you. You need protection at all times if you want to ward off wrinkles for as long as possible. This is also why you can stop spending money on all those anti-wrinkle creams when the most effective one is sunblock.
If Your Pores Are Too Big, a Pore Minimizer is the Cure
Your pore size is predetermined by your genetic makeup. Pores may appear larger because of bacteria and dead skin cells. Alpa hydroxys and Retin-A are designed to break up these materials and bring the pores back to their original appearance, but if the original appearance is still a big pore, then it will remain so. Products cannot make pores smaller than your genetics decreed them to be.
Shaving Makes The Hair Grow Back Thicker
It can sure feel that way, but this isn’t true. When you shave, you are cutting the hair off at its largest diameter, so that when it protrudes from the skin again, it feels like it is coarser and thicker, but it is actually just the same hair that was there before. Hair thickness and quantity is predetermined genetically—shaving has nothing to do with it.
Old Wives’ Tales
These are just some of the beauty and care tips that we are told when we’re growing up. We often assume such tales are true because they have been in circulation for so long or because they were passed down to us by someone wise and familiar, like a mother. Thankfully, due to advances in science, these myths have been factually disproven and we can now move on to proper and correct care.
