Five days ago, Kylie Jenner announced a new addition to her 900-million dollar beauty empire, Kylie Cosmetics. After three successful years of producing and selling makeup products that made her Forbes’ youngest self-made billionaire, Jenner has announced her new venture into skincare–Kylie Skin.
However, the announcement led to numerous angry feedback on social media.
Last weekend on May 12, the brand’s new Instagram, @KylieSkin, introduced a full range of skin products, including a foaming face wash, toner, moisturizer, serum, eye cream, and lastly, a walnut face scrub. People on social media were quick to voice their concern for the scrub’s main ingredient, walnuts.
Estheticians and dermatologists alike have claimed that walnuts are too abrasive on the skin and can easily cause micro-tears, leading to inflammation and irritation. This was demonstrated to the public last 2016 when popular skincare brand, St. Ives, received a class-action lawsuit for their infamous Apricot Scrub that contained–you guessed it, walnuts.
Siva Kumar, a consultant plastic surgeon and skin expert at The McIndoe Center, told Metro that he wouldn’t recommend customers use the Kylie Skin scrub as there are safer and less abrasive products on the market.
As for the other products in the line, we’ll just have to wait for Kylie Skin to officially release to know whether they’re worth purchasing or not.
