Raw milk has many health benefits, including being good for your skin

Question

According to the beauty site, Be Beautiful, milk, particularly unpasteurized, is good for your skin, making it "healthy and glowing." It says you can even use raw milk to make DIY face masks, cleansers, toners, and more. It's supposed to reduce acne and wrinkles. This site has a lot of other articles about beauty, as well as op-eds about personal stories related to beauty/hygiene. I've heard raw milk is bad to consume, but it is good to have on your skin?

Answer 1

https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/dangers-raw-milk-unpasteurized-milk-can-pose-serious-health-risk

The FDA considers the consumption of raw milk to be unsafe due to the possibility of it carrying germs such as E.Coli and Listeria that are taken out through the process of pasteurization. While the article you linked is focusing on the use of raw milk as a beauty product, the writer, Sanya Hamdani, is not titled as being a licensed dermatologist. There also is not data or studies used in this article to articulate that the raw milk has real benefits other than what the author is saying it does for skin.

I also find it interesting that in the FDA's report of raw milk consumption, the nutrition of the milk is unchanged and only the harmful bacteria is removed from the milk. In this case, pasteurized milk would have the same value to using on your skin without the harmful bacteria.

Comments

This is a great, in-depth fact check. Looking into the author's background is always a great place to start and I find it interesting that the author isn't even a licensed dermatologist. I also find it interesting that the nutrition of the milk doesn't change, it just becomes more safe for consumption once pasteurized, it makes me wonder what the motivation behind this article was in the first place.

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This is a really good fact check. Comparing the authors/sources of the website is really useful, especially when you find out that this person isn't even qualified to be making these sort of claims. From what I understand, there is no difference between using pasteurized or unpasteurized milk on your skin, I wonder if the person who wrote this article is getting sponsored by unpasteurized milk sources?