A pump of serum, a drop of AHA, a dollop of moisturiser—creating your own skincare cocktail sounds like fun and games, until it isn’t. With consumers becoming more savvy about ingredients, thanks to social media like TikTok and Instagram, mixing up your own skincare brew has grown in popularity. But there is always an inherent risk—especially since the content creators providing these tips aren’t skincare experts, doctors or chemists.
Without a proper understanding of skincare formulations, mixing your own skincare cocktail can do anything from nullifying the efficacy of the ingredients,result in unequal distribution of the individual components, and this can affect the effectiveness of the product applied to your skin.”