Loved by many celebrities, oxygen injection beauty has been a popular beauty project for many years, and its common form is to use a pressurized oxygen spray gun to spray skin care products on the surface of the skin to achieve instant moisturizing and smoothing effects. In recent years, due to the rise of household oxygen injectors, oxygen injection has once again become a hot keyword, and Biolab, a local light medical beauty skin care brand that completed tens of millions of financing last year, took the oxygen injection meter as the main product, and many skin care products also played the concept of oxygen injection.
At present, the topic of oxygen injection has been played 160 million times on Douyin, and the search results of "oxygen injection" notes on the Little Red Book have exceeded 30,000, and a lot of this content is about whether oxygen injection is an "IQ tax".
Oxygen on the skin has the effect of promoting cell metabolism, accelerating healing, alleviating irritation, etc., and indeed there is a treatment method such as hyperbaric oxygen, but this method requires patients to inhale pure oxygen or high concentration oxygen in an environment above an atmospheric pressure, and the mechanism of action includes increasing the partial pressure of blood oxygen, reducing air bubbles in the body, reducing tissue edema, antibacterial, etc., and using the spray gun to act on the surface of the skin Oxygen injection beauty does not have much to do.
Borrowing the concept of "supplemental oxygen", many oxygen injection beauty projects claim to be able to hydrate, bring shine to the skin, reduce wrinkles, etc., but there are few clinical data to prove the effectiveness of oxygen injection beauty.
Oxygen injection programs in beauty institutions
Weng Zhisheng, director of the Department of Dermatology of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, said in an interview with Guangzhou Daily that the oxygen pressure of the hyperbaric oxygen chamber is much greater than that of the beauty salon, but he observed that patients treating other diseases with hyperbaric oxygen "did not see any change in the skin" after two or three months, and he believed that the effect of oxygen injection beauty was actually brought about by beauty liquid.
Dermatologist Dr. Fredric Brandt explained in an interview with The New York Times that this approach is intended to "allow oxygen to create a pressure bubble that pushes vitamins and nutrients into the skin." But he also said there was no data to support the effect, and Christopher B. Zachary, a professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, simply called it a "dog skin plaster," suggesting that the effect of skin plumping may be due to mild inflammation caused by a high-pressure spray gun.
Biolab oxygen injector
But a 2018 paper found through four groups of experiments that oxygen therapy for skin surfaces help treat hair loss, mild and moderate acne, and some chronic skin conditions, though these experiments had fewer participants and two experiments did not have control groups.
As a simple version of the beauty salon oxygen injection instrument, the home beauty instrument can be atomized with water or skin care products, with smaller molecules to penetrate the stratum corneum, promote absorption, save skin care products, etc., many bloggers think that this is just an "electric watering can", transdermal absorption can not be achieved in this way, but if it is only used as a spray bottle, there are also many consumer feedback that the water mist of the oxygen injector is more comfortable, easier to absorb, and has a certain sedative effect.
With the popularity of the concept of oxygen injection, skin care brands have also begun to join in, the product is labeled "oxygen injection", such as the American professional skin care brand Kate Somerville's oxygen injection essence with a small sprinkler, the use of Hydrofill high-pressure oxygen injection technology to promote the role of penetration, PFC (perfluorinated compound) oxygen carrier can dissolve oxygen, bring it into the skin.
Kate Somerville Retinol Oxygenated Serum
British luxury skincare brand Rodial adopts a similar idea, its gel facial essence applies Fiflow BTX oxygen technology, which can wrap oxygen, let it penetrate into the skin and then release it, to increase the oxygen carrier of cells and promote collagen production.
Rodial Gel Facial Serum
In addition, there are brands that develop products from the perspective of improving the skin's ability to obtain oxygen, clarins's "Radiant Small Porcelain Bottle" adds myrtle extract to enhance the oxygen grip of keratinocytes. Ipsa's 9th generation "ME Self-Propelled Milk" beats up the "oxygen-enhancing" concept, adding cinnamon extract to improve the skin's ability to transport oxygen, and blackberry lilies to enhance the skin's ability to absorb oxygen.
Clarins Translucent Brightening Spot Serum (Glow Small Porcelain Bottle)
Others simply create a "sense of oxygen injection," such as hydrogen peroxide and perfluoronaphthane that foam when they touch the skin, making consumers feel as if oxygen is injected.
Ipsa Self-Regulatory Circulation Beauty Fluid (ME Self-Propelled Milk)
Although oxygen is indeed indispensable for skin health, hyperbaric oxygen is also widely used in the auxiliary treatment of psoriasis, atopic dermatitis and other skin diseases, but whether it has a cosmetic effect is still unknown, as a lower strength of beauty instruments and skin care products, oxygen can play a role in it is still "metaphysics". However, although many medical experts believe that oxygen can be absorbed through the skin is nonsense, a 2012 paper found that the skin can absorb a certain amount of oxygen in high oxygen-containing water, with the development of basic research, "oxygen injection" may be able to get rid of the "IQ tax" label in the future, and truly become a new idea of skin care accepted by consumers. BINC
Author: Lee
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