 shared the skincare advice with over 300,000 TikTok followers. The licensed esthetician sighed as she warned her followers not to trend the trend. "This TikTok trend of making a paste with baking soda to exfoliate your skin... this is not something that a licensed esthetician such as myself recommend," she said. The expert explained that she does occasionally utilize baking soda at work. "I do use baking soda in the water when I'm trying to neutralize a peel on somebody's skin," she explained. She explained that the skin is usually at a pH balance of 4.5 to 5.0 and a peel drops the skin's pH to a 2 or 3. "We put baking soda in the water to neutralize the peel to raise up the pH balance so the skin stops tingling," she explained. However, seeing the TikTok trend has shocked her as she warned against the dangers of using baking soda. "If you put too much baking soda on the skin, you're now raising it to an alkaline, you can get an alkaline burn," she revealed. "People think it's exfoliating but it's also a peel, you can also give yourself an alkaline burn, it's not appropriate for everybody's skin." The expert recommended using baking soda in small amounts to neutralize the skin but not for peels. "We never want to upset the skin's pH balance to that extreme," she said.){kind=link}
A SKINCARE expert has warned against a viral TikTok anti-aging trend.
She said the trend is a big no-no and can actually burn your skin.
Amy (@theskinandlashlady) shared the skincare advice with over 300,000 TikTok followers.
The licensed esthetician sighed as she warned her followers not to blindly follow the trend.
“This TikTok trend of making a paste with baking soda to exfoliate your skin… this is not something that a licensed esthetician such as myself recommend,” she said.