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Dr. Schultz explains to you about skin sensitivity and how to identify whether you have it or weather you just think that you do.
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Dr. Neal Schultz: Hello I'm Dr. Neal Schultz and welcome to DermTV. When you ask people if they have sensitive skin, so many of them respond that they do or they think they do. The reality is that they don't, but so many people think they do. Unfortunately that drives them to seek out products they are labeled for sensitive skin which number one makes it harder to find products for them. Number two, it restricts the products available and number three denies them a lot of very effective products that would irritate skin or could irritate skin, if it really were sensitive, but in reality these people don't have sensitive skin. Only 2 to 3% of the population really have sensitive skin. So why does everybody think their skin is sensitive. In our lifetime experience its not unusual for somebody to have one or two episodes where a skin care product cause some irritation. That's over a lifetime or over ten years. That doesn't constitute sensitive skin, that's normal. The definition of sensitive skin has three criteria, first of all, a skin that is frequently irritated by many common skin care products. Unless your experience fits all three criteria frequently irritated many common skin care products then you don't have sensitive skin and there is no reason for you to be restricted to seeking out products marked for sensitive skin. So if you have any questions, by all means when you get a new skin care product test it use it for two or three days in a small area the size of a quarter on the side of you check to demonstrate to yourself that it doesn't cause irritation and therefor you won't be restricted to products that are labeled for people who with sensitive skin. Please join me again at dermtv.com. If you have a question please send it to me by visiting dermtv.com/question. I'm Dr. Neal Schultz and thank you for watching today.
