 Hey, hey, how's it going? It's going very good. Thank you for having me Thank you for taking the time to To join in and talk about this awesome My first time the camera set up for a quick. Yeah, it was easy though, right? Yeah Good hi to Dennis in Canada. Awesome. We got people from all over the world very cool So as I was saying, yeah, I want I asked dr. Helton if he would would mind giving some of his time so that we can talk today dr. Helton is a dermatologist and He knows a lot about this company gloves in a bottle And it's a lotion company and I thought this was a good chance for us to talk about Moisturizing and lotion in general with all the hand washing we're doing and sanitizing and how we can keep our skin healthy so Dr. Helton, I'll leave it to you for a second if you want to go ahead and just tell us a little bit about yourself Your background how you got started in dermatology and how you ended up working with gloves in a bottle grew up in Michigan went to Michigan State University and I Got into dermatology. I got a residency in California. So I'm still in California right now It's kind of hard to move from getting out of that snow. It says the guy from Canada can surely attest to it basically I read about it when I was a resident because it was in the in a boating magazine and The way gloves in a bottle works is it provides a silicone layer to the top layer of the skin That maintains all the body's moisture on the inside So, you know, part of the problem we haven't dermatitis is that people are stripping off their Protected layer and then that allows the environment to get in and cause have it So usually as a dermatologist, you'd have to write a prescription in order to in order to take care of that like a steroid to help decrease inflammation but you know as a holistic doctor, I'd like to do more in the way of prevention and try to avoid medications when I can and That's where gloves in the bottle comes in Very cool. So I've been using it about 20 years. It's still my favorite barrier cream Okay, so is that the primary difference you would say? In gloves in a bottle from other Lotions that are out on the market. I'm just trying to understand a little bit better. Is it the silicone layer? Yeah, I mean, it's just it's got it's a unique formulation That's that's designed to protect your skin from the environment most other lotions out there are composed of You know moisturizers You know shea butter Lanolin the Petroleum which are all good products unless you're sensitive to them The thing I like about gloves in the bottle is that it lasts for four hours on your skin So the problem is some of the other moisturizers as you can put them on but you know that after Walk around for a bit. It seems to dry it out again. You have to be Yeah, okay, very cool in general I mean aside from gloves in a bottle, but just moisturizers and lotions in general, you know Not everyone has the same access or they're just shopping online or their local stores What what types of things should they be looking for in products if I go to the store? What what kinds of ingredients do I want to look out for and then what what kind of things I want to avoid? Well, it depends on if you have sensitive skin or not So, I mean typically if you're if you're seeking a moisturizer chances are you have you have sensitive skin Unfortunately, if you don't have sensitive skin, you can tolerate almost anything that's out there On the skin sensitivity side You want things that have you know less ingredients rather than more ingredients Lanolin is one of the ones that's a that's a big offender that you want to watch out for because that's basically sheep's oil Lanolin Lanolin. Yeah, I mean that that can be a I mean if you got if you got allergic skin You know if you don't have allergic skin, you can you can get away with it You'll know pretty quickly whether you can handle the whatever moisturizer there is out there The American Academy of Dermatology recommends mostly things that are Like Vaseline type based Okay, Vaseline type based good to know Why would you say that? Moisturizing is more important now with COVID-19 and staying at home and all that going on Yeah, well, I mean there's a lot of things happening out there right now I mean probably for the first time in history people are washing their hands, you know eight to twenty times a day You know and typically you would only see that in in like the medical profession who works with you know Contaminated fluids and whatnot, but now everybody's doing it and then we're spraying ourselves with alcohol So we're drying our our skin out and by doing that We don't have a natural resisted barrier that things are going to bounce off of so things can actually absorb into our skin and cause us Problems worse yet if you get a crack in your skin That allows, you know direct access for bacterias and bacteria and virus to get into your body So, you know since COVID can live on the surface of an object, you know up to a week in some situation You know if you've got breaks in your skin that that's not very beneficial Is that something that The silicone and gloves in a bottle would help also help prevent or does it not go that far? It's not gonna stop you from having bacteria enter an open wound But it's I'm sorry get distracted by a flag on the screen there It's not gonna stop you from on from anything going into an open wound, but the key is not to get an open wound Yeah, so, you know if your skin is so dry and cracked that's an open wound Okay, so it's more preventive to keep your skin healthy so that you don't run into that situation. Yeah How frequently should I be moisturizing after every single time I wash Or you were saying that it's supposed to it should stay on the skin for four hours, but if I wash does it come off? Yeah, we did studies on it not me and the company did and they shared it with me They they just studies on it and said that it pretty much holds its its barrier for four hours So again, that's again one of the reasons why it's one of my more favorite compounds So again like Vaseline, you know Soon as you wash your hands you wiped all that off again because that doesn't bond to the top layer It just sort of sits on the top layer The nice thing about the gloves in the bottle is it electrostatically just Gets attached to this draft and corny and this is a very top layer of the skin my breaking up again No, you're you're good. That's just really interesting. I never I never heard of like that. It would fall into this skin like that I do have a question here. I'm seeing from George Martinez He said lotion at night. Do you recommend it? Well, if you have dry skin, yes, so Let me I talk to me your body are you talking on your hands, you know, typically with this COVID thing when we're washing our hands, you know More than twice a day. I would suggest moisturizing You know after each after each washing if you're using gloves in the bottle You can get away with doing it like every four hours if you've got dry skin then use moisture So your body kind of tells you whether you need moisture or not If you don't have dry skin on your body, then you don't really need moisturizer. If you do have dry skin, then you do fair enough And then I've gotten Natasha Giuliana asking when's the best time to moisturize Well, you want to have dry skin when you moisturize but what happens is that say you got out of the shower And your skin is different recently been wet You want to dry it off and then lock that moisture in So put it put it on right after right after bathing or right after washing, okay And then Meneli is asking what about those who have eggs and that's my question too because I I don't have bad eczema But I do get mild to so you've got some medical words there You've got eczema and then you've got this hydrodic eczema. So they're kind of different entities So this hydrodic eczema is basically when you get these little bubbles that form on The edges of your fingers and the edges of your feet And those bubbles get intensely itchy and then after four or five days, they kind of dry up and fall off That's a medical diagnosis and there's not a lot of over-the-counter things that will help you ish So in my feeling I just hydrodic eczema. It's a reaction to the environment meaning you skin touch something that you were extremely sensitive to Like I will get it if I if the guy that washes my car uses a special fragrance on the steering wheel I noticed that whenever I touched that steering wheel all of a sudden I react to that and I needed to touch it once and I would react like Three days later. So so typically you're reacting to something that has a fragrance and that causes that that dyshidrodic eczema Now if you use the gloves in the bottle, you can prevent that from entering your body Or if you use the moisturizer, you have a less chance of that entering the body In both situations the less chance of entering the body But the best chance is to avoid it and then once the ball starts rolling you have to kind of use medical Steroids to kind of control it as far as eczema goes Eczema is a reaction to the environment where where your skin is just super sensitive and dry and and again, it's it's known in the dermatology world that The skin barrier is broken in that situation. So moisturizers are extremely helpful in in the eczema situation You know, it's it's it's meant for the hand. So it's I don't usually recommend it for the face So, you know latex gloves are meant to be used by medical professions for moments You know, we walk into a room or taking care of a patient wearing the gloves Then we take them off and we wash our hands before we put on the next pair of gloves to go into the next patient's room A lot of people are out there wearing gloves for like four to five hours at a time The downside with that is you know, you're locking other moisture inside inside your body And you're putting it into a hyper hydronic state Which which basically sucks all the water out of your hands and dries it out So gloves are good for like short term like if you're a pumping gas, then you want to use it there If you're using it at the grocery store, perhaps Personally, I don't wear gloves on the outside. I just you know, keep my skin later intact and You know wash my hands after after I touch something that's questionable or I spray it with alcohol If I touch something that's questionable back to the eye thing, you know eye creams are specifically made for the eyes You know people think wrinkles around the eyes are caused from Dryness and that's true in the short term, but the long term it's due to loss of collagen generally sun exposure So if you put too thick of a moisturizer around the eyes or moisturizer that was not meant for the eyes You'll get a bunch of plugged pores And those will look like little bumps Which are kind of annoying And you know not that easy to get rid of so when you're using an eye cream make sure you're using something that's formulated just for the eyes Don't go for the heaviest stuff that there is out there because it'll it'll cause you problems So to touch on gloves in a bottle one more time Where can people find this product? either In person or online probably online's better at this point Yeah, you know, it's kind of a boutique company Sometimes it's found in certain certain drugstores. You know, it started in the hardware business and it moved into the drugstores Probably the easiest place to find it is online at glovesinthebottle.com and it's also available on amazon Okay, someone just asked amazon Good Some of the know about using it's not like your typical moisturizer What's going to happen is you're going to apply it and it's going to feel like it's really wet And you're going to rub it in you're going wow, I think I applied I think I put too much on And what you do is you just rub it in rub it and rub it in and then after about 30 to 60 seconds It dries and then you don't even know what's there anymore Yeah, uh, dr. Helton was saying it's it gives you a protect a little bit of protection silicone protection That's the top layer of skin But my understanding it's not meant to replace the gloves correct No, but you know gloves aren't really recommended if your skin's intact So or you know if you're going into like a highly contaminated environment, then yeah, go ahead and wear the gloves But in general, you know if your skin's intact, you're gonna You're gonna protect yourself the problem with wearing gloves is again, it'll dehydrate your skin Because you know when you take gloves off your hands are all sweating and all all moist So that's sucking all the moisture out of your skin, which then goes to making your skin feel dry Um, so, you know Gloves are meant to be used for you know 10 to 15 minutes at a time not not a six to eight hour period Even an hour period the way people are using it You know, you know everybody's worried about the virus the virus basically It's either going to enter your body through the nose The mouth or the eyes if you have a glove on and you think you're being protected and then you accidentally touch your face You haven't protected yourself at all Yeah So for me, I think it's uh, you know, I would I would rather I recommend to my my patients to use moisturizer as opposed to as opposed to actual rubber gloves um You know, I think I think I think the cdc goes along those lines as well. Yeah And um, recently I noticed that you guys had the donated 60 000 Samples of a bottle to doctors and hospitals. So that's really cool awesome that you guys are helping in that front So that's why it was doubly important for me to Not only talk about this but also rep you guys a little bit You know, the great thing about that is I'm sorry, I don't mean to The great thing about that is it's not just that we donated it is that you know the The healthcare professionals are actually asking for it. So, you know, that's another attribute to how great that it works Yeah Very cool. Well, thank you so much for for taking some time out to talk with me today and share this helpful information with everybody I really appreciate it My pleasure. It's been fun All right, take care. Thank you