Dr. Pimple Popper Shuts Down Beauty Blogger Over Claims About Essential Oils
• Dr. Pimple Popper corrected beauty blogger Michelle Phan for a scientifically false tip about using essential oils to prevent viral infections.
• As the world frets over coronavirus, Phan told her two million followers that burning essential oils will “kill off” viruses.
• “Sorry, antiviral essential oils DON’T EXIST,” Dr. Sandra Lee. MD—aka, Dr. Pimple Popper—tweeted succinctly, causing Phan to back down.
Dr. Sandra Lee, MD—also known as the widely followed Instagram star and TLC host known Dr. Pimple Popper—has corrected beauty tips blogger Michelle Phan for giving out some bizarre, scientifically unsound anti-virus advice.
“Our first point of contact for viruses is our nose,” Phan misinformed her two million Instagram followers. “If you are burning antiviral essential oils around you this will kill off the virus before it enters your system.”
Where to begin? Though sniffing up a virus (a microscopic organism) is one way to get a viral infection, viruses can enter the body through touch, sex, exchanges of saliva, contaminated food or water or insect bites.
“Essential oils” is a catch-all term for compounds extracted from plants, which health trend-followers are using for everything from anxiety to skin restoration. Burning them does not "kill off" a virus. Or as Lee put it more plainly: “Sorry, antiviral essential oils DON’T EXIST.”
Sorry, antiviral essential oils DON’T EXIST @MichellePhan 🙈😬. #drpimplepopper pic.twitter.com/b6vLxl5PVW
— Dr Pimple Popper (@SandraLeeMD) February 3, 2020
Misinformation over viruses has spread as fears of coronavirus, which has killed more than 400 people and sickened more than 2,000, mostly in China, is leading to internet-driven health hysteria. In case you had read differently, you can’t ward off coronavirus with garlic or sesame oil and it is a totally different thing from Corona beer. Also, you’re a lot more likely to die of the regular flu.
Phan seems to have learned her lesson and posted an official World Health Organization primer about coronavirus, with the explanation: “My friend who’s a nurse and into holistic care shared with her friends and family detailed tips that help boost the immune system. I reshaped. My intention wasn’t to mislead, but thank you for enlightening me.”
Phan will hopefully leave the medical tips to the doctors and go back to posh selfies and beauty blogging. And Lee will go back to giving her fans what they want most: more videos of extracted cysts and oozing blackheads.
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