Debunking the worst sunscreen misinformation on TikTok

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  @LabMuffinBeautyScience · 2 years ago · pinned

  Hope you enjoyed this video! I think the next one in this series might be debunking product tests on social media... which ones do you keep seeing?<br><br>Also you can find out more about my book here: <a href="https://geni.us/TheScienceOfBeauty">https://geni.us/TheScienceOfBeauty</a>

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• SL

  @Sleepykissesxo · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCPp8EJSG-Y&amp;t=690">11:30</a> <br><br>Maybe the sun won&apos;t burn you but Michelle sure will 😭

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  @iwanashow9 · 2 years ago

  Just remember, if the person talking about sunscreen has burnt orange elephant skin...<br>Probably dont pay them attention

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  @justilou1 · 2 years ago

  I can imagine if you use the DIY sunscreen all the neighbourhood dogs will flock to you like a suburban Disney Princess

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  @tookiwolfpaint5142 · 2 years ago

  The amount of time you have to spend to disprove a 30 second tiktok reminds me of the saying, &quot;A lie will be halfway around the world before the truth has time to lace its shoes.&quot; Scary.

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• SQ

  @squinttttt · 1 year ago

  &quot;nobody gets burnt in 20 minutes&quot; <br><br>youre right, I get burnt in less than 10

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• DE

  @denisenj7648 · 2 years ago

  When I don&apos;t use high sunscreen, I tan and burn. &nbsp;When I do, I don&apos;t. &nbsp;😮. You don&apos;t have to be a genius to figure out that suncreen works.

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  @shankornfeld1541 · 2 years ago

  Someone really wrote to you that &quot;he has access to graduate level research studies and clinical trials not released to the public because he&apos;s a Stanford professor&quot;? How do they come up with this misinformation? Firstly, Michelle ALSO has access to research that is behind paywalls. But even if she didn&apos;t, everyone has access to all peer-reviewed study abstracts - it is just that some journals are annoying and require subscriptions to access some whole articles. AND, if you really want the article, but don&apos;t want to pay for it, you just email any of the authors and they will send it to you FOR FREE. Because there is no such thing as &quot;big science&quot;. We all want our research to be out there and to get read. When there is a paywall, it isn&apos;t our choice, that is just a consequence that we have to suffer to get our studies out there in the right journals. We hate it too.

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  @concamon1364 · 2 years ago (edited)

  &quot;They don&apos;t <b>look</b> like they care about skincare&quot; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCPp8EJSG-Y&amp;t=550">9:10</a><br><br>Oh, Michelle&apos;s coming for blood in this one 😂

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  @sarahb6321 · 2 years ago (edited)

  As a currently pregnant lady whose anxiety skyrocketed in pregnancy- thank you. There is so much fear mongering to pregnant women and it’s so scary. You just want to protect your baby who you know is so vulnerable and so small and it starts to feel like nothing is safe- then people tell you that feeling anxious will hurt the baby too and I’ve just felt like I’m failing my baby this whole pregnancy.

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  @pheebmcgeeb · 2 years ago

  I’m an Aussie doctor working in skin cancer. I love, love, love this. Your explanation of the cellular mechanism for sunburn was more detailed than any lecture I’ve ever seen. I will definitely be recommending this video to my patients!

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• BI

  @biosparkles9442 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Yay, group therapy with Michelle! <br><br>As a fellow Australian, it absolutely blows my mind that there are people who don&apos;t &quot;believe&quot; in sunscreen. Like, tell me you&apos;ve never lived somewhere with a UV index above 6 without telling me. My skin would literally be cooked if I used that &quot;animal based&quot; sunscreen with our average UV index of 12 in summer :&apos;) <br><br>I think literally every Australian knows <b>at least</b> one person who has had a melanoma or other skin cancer removed at some point, which probably plays a role in our culture around sun protection.

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