I called my doctor, Sinae Kane, MD, of Presidio Dermatology in San Francisco, to share with Who What Wear what she told me. Here, she explains the mystery of perioral dermatitis and warns that she is seeing more cases of it every day.
“What we do know about perioral dermatitis is that it is thought to be a form of rosacea and although there is a lot of speculation about the condition, we do know that there are a number of triggers,” says Kane. the main cause of the disease”. “Things we often see are heavy use of heavy products – thicker creams, oils or ointments – and overuse of products in general.
“Especially with the boom in the natural skin care industry, a lot of patients were really interested in learning about skin care and although I thought it was really exciting, in the end people will try many products and use many at once, so often creating an environment where it will cause flare-ups of perioral dermatitis.
“Given the booming natural skin care industry, I think the Korean 10-step skincare routine is also a setting for perioral dermatitis. We’ve definitely seen an improvement. there’s been an increase in the number of patients with this, and the most common scenario is a patient comes in and says to me, ‘My skin is dry, so I started using a bunch of products, and I see pimples. emerges, it feels irritating and dry, so I want to use some other product,’ and they keep adding product on top of the product to try to solve that problem, and usually it’s just make it worse.”
