{"id":208824,"date":"2024-02-29T02:18:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T02:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/29\/benefits-of-hyaluronic-acid-in-skincare-products-have-been-oversold\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:21:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:21:28","slug":"benefits-of-hyaluronic-acid-in-skincare-products-have-been-oversold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/29\/benefits-of-hyaluronic-acid-in-skincare-products-have-been-oversold\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits of hyaluronic acid in skincare products have been oversold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/27102754\/SEI_193422771.jpg?width=1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/27102754\/SEI_193422771.jpg?width=100 100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/27102754\/SEI_193422771.jpg?width=200 200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/27102754\/SEI_193422771.jpg?width=249 249w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/27102754\/SEI_193422771.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/27102754\/SEI_193422771.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/27102754\/SEI_193422771.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/27102754\/SEI_193422771.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/27102754\/SEI_193422771.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/27102754\/SEI_193422771.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/27102754\/SEI_193422771.jpg?width=900 900w\" class=\"image size-full wp-image-2419231 ReplaceImageLazyload\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1130px) 900px, (min-width: 1025px) 900, (min-width: 768px) calc(100vw - 30px), calc(100vw - 30px)\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" data-credit=\"Layla Bird\/Getty\" data-caption=\"Hyaluronic acid is often added to facial oils and serums with the promise of reducing the appearance of wrinkles\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Hyaluronic acid is often added to facial oils and serums with the promise of reducing the appearance of wrinkles<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Layla Bird\/Getty<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Hyaluronic acid, a popular skincare ingredient, doesn\u2019t hold 1000 times its weight in water, despite frequent marketing claims.<\/p>\n<p>The ingredient is a humectant, a substance that attracts moisture. Applied topically, <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/22052267\/\">it can improve skin hydration<\/a>, enhance elasticity and reduce wrinkle depth.<\/p>\n<p>But chemists have long suspected that the idea it can hold 1000 times its weight in water is too much of a stretch. <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/dth.15903\">The claim has been cited for decades<\/a>,\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2418345-benefits-of-hyaluronic-acid-in-skincare-products-have-been-oversold\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Hyaluronic acid is often added to facial oils and serums with the promise of reducing the appearance of wrinkles Layla Bird\/Getty Hyaluronic acid, a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341469,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208824\/revisions\/341469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}