If you grew up in Brazil in the last 30, 40 or 50 years, at some point you have come across the minanchor and many times your grandmother told you to used it and along with the Nivea blue tin, it is an ointment that was a huge national phenomenon, its been around for over 110 years in Brazil and has been used by millions of people, many people use it for chilblains and even as a deodorant and some people even believe that it helps to lighten dark spots where the minancora appeared, what's in it if you want to know everything about it the main anchor is in this video and you will understand my name is Gustavo bchart I am a dermatologist, I have been making content on Instagram and recently I started here on YouTube and I have already made videos about some other classics here in Brazil like Lady de rosas and now I I decided to talk about mináncora because it is another product that has existed for over 100 years, it is a national phenomenon and its history even intersects with another phenomenon here in Brazil, which is Granado's antiseptic starch and it all starts in 1912 when the Portuguese pharmacist Eduardo Augusto Gonçalves came to Brazil to work in Manaus, Amazonas in the manufacture of talc decep da Granada and this information is interesting because the most important ingredient that we have in minãncora is also found in Talc da Granada in a little while I'll explain what's next for a while and it's not clear how long that was, he ended up moving to Joinville in Santa Catarina and took over the management of a local pharmacy, the process of creating Minancora took 3 years until in 1915 he officially launched the minânncora ointment, that name it even comes from a union of the Roman goddess Minero, who was the goddess of wisdom and an Anchor to symbolize the fact that he had definitively established himself here in Brazil. It is also said that this issue of Ancora was precisely for stability and security that Ancora also gave to the ointment being associated with this feeling of security, the mináncora was the first and historically the most famous but it is said that they made several artisanal products, there was even a syrup that was to treat roundworm and syrup to treat drunkenness, as in the case of rose milk he had to invest a lot in marketing and advertising, after all he was making a product in the interior of Santa Catarina and had to promote it to the rest of Brazil. So he ended up investing a lot in this marketing, he even had minanncora hair tonic and used the queen of beauty of Joinville to try to associate Minancora with her appearance that's why I think this story is very similar to that of rose milk 100 years ago there weren't that many ingredients to use in skin products so they took a few simple ingredients and launched a product that could be used in several different ways, they promised a lot of things with this product, in some cases it ended up working thanks to the ingredients because the syrups for drunkenness and the tonic were not able to maintain their reputation but this ointment here survived all this time at that time there was no such thing culture of using a lot of products on the skin, but this has changed in the last 20 years, nowadays there are a lot of ingredients and there are a lot of products.
Minancora herself here ended up suffering because she became associated with the ointment for the little voices and recently she had to change everything the marketing line trying to reach young people and nowadays they even have lines with several products they had to change and what is in the small anchor on the cover we can already see there is benzalkonium chloride, zinc oxide and camphor and here the we already have all the best and worst things in mináncora, starting with camphor, which is the ingredient. It was very important for minãncora due to the smell and also the pleasant cold sensation that it gives when it is applied to the skin and it is interesting because camphor is also present in Another product that I made a video on these days is rosemary essential oil, it can have several positive effects on our skin, from refreshing, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, it can even contribute to skin regeneration and is very useful for people who suffer from itching ends up blocking some itch receptors, the only care you have to take is that camphor passes through the liver, so if the person has cirrhosis or a serious illness in the The liver has to be careful with the use of camphor, another issue is if the person has an allergic reaction to camphor, people can have an allergic reaction to any compound and then if that happens, it could end up irritating the skin and talking about irritating the skin the next time ingredient is the most controversial and responsible for most of the problems we have when using mine, which is benzalkonium chloride, it is an antiseptic compound, helps fight fungi and bacteria and in addition it works as a preservative if you put it in products to Precisely not allow the growth of fungi and bacteria and this product to last longer, the only small problem is that 1 to 5% of people develop an allergic reaction to it . having nothing but over time having contact with it, our body sees it, sees it and starts to think it's strange and suddenly it thinks that it's going to be harmful and causes an allergic reaction, this happens with several other substances, which is why Many times people work with their hands with some product for 5 to 10 years and out of nowhere they start to have an allergic reaction, we call it sensitization, our body becomes sensitive to something that causes an allergy and this can happen to it, which is why the most of the cases we see someone saying that they used AM mináncora and had the problem, it's their fault and finally the main ingredient that we also find in the Granado skeptic is zinc oxide Zinc oxide is an ingredient that has been used by humanity for thousands of years and can have many positive effects on our skin depending on the way it is used in a product, so for example zinc oxide can be used as a skin protection barrier that is irritated or injured and by creating this protective barrier it can help with skin hydration and skin recovery But depending on how much we use it, it can even work as a sunscreen And in addition with this effect on the skin barrier it protects against infection and it even reduces the proliferation of some fungi and bacteria on the skin and contributes to oiliness.
So it can reduce oiliness on the skin, which is why in the past, when we didn't have many substances available, they used it in several different ways, talc from Granado literally They put it together with some talcum powder, he decided to clean it up, take the zinc oxide, put the camphor together and managed to create a very versatile product, now that you know the ingredients in it and what they can do, you already know how it can be used on our skin But let's take a look first at what he's become so famous about for pimples, you can use minan to treat pimples, yes, yes, Gustavo, but I've seen a lot of people out there saying that it's dangerous, it won't work and that it is not to use minanco Okay, but we have to think about the ingredients it contains, if the person does not have an allergic reaction, they will help the zinc oxide will close this skin barrier, the camphor can help calm the skin a little, it can reduce a little the proliferation of B bacteria that are there on the skin and can help pimples heal faster, the minanchor will not be able to carry out a definitive treatment, these fat glands will stay there, these bacteria can return today, we have specific treatments for acne, including some that we can even cure the person and remember, not everyone will have an allergic reaction to minancora. So if we go to the extreme side and say that it is forbidden to use it, which will cause problems for everyone, it is simply not true, but it also cannot be done to say that it will work for everyone, there are those people who will have an allergic reaction and then we would be trying to have this allergic reaction and there are cases where these ingredients will not be enough, but for some people it works according to what they say. could be used to prevent chilblains And as I said, zinc oxide creates this protective barrier, has this effect against fungi and bacteria, so in fact it could also be used if the person does not have an allergic reaction, so now we take a look and think differently general every time our skin becomes more sensitized and irritated, if we apply zinc oxide with camphor there, it can help.
The big problem is that we don't know who the people are who will be allergic, but for blemishes, it can work. Let's think together here, when we have a spot on the skin, there are several things that could be happening, it could be irritation, it could be inflammation, it could have been a burn and this spot could be at different depths of the skin, when we have something that is more irritation and inflammation and it is a more superficial stain, a simpler stain, all it takes is for our skin to be able to recover and be healthy, and this stain often comes out and the small anchor, if the person doesn't have an allergy, can contribute to this. So there will be people who will pass and due to this effect of zinc oxide to protect the skin barrier and recover the skin barrier, the stain may end up disappearing and if the stain is very deep, no ingredient here acts on the enzyme that creates stain nor breaks down the stain, so the effect here will be very discreet, I had asked subscribers here on the channel if anyone had any questions regarding the minãncora that I would answer in the video, I ended up finding two interesting.
The first was about the minãncora as it has zinc oxide in its composition, it can be used as a cvan with sunscreen in places where there is stronger light, such as the beach, so this issue of zinc oxide and sun protection is very complicated. You have to know how to create the product with zinc oxide so that it can really provide adequate sun protection when they started using zinc oxide. as sunscreen they used it almost pure, they made very thick pastes of sunscreen with zinc oxide and it reflected the solar radiation from this little bit that it gets, it doesn't get everything so they had to use some sun protection enhancers which are the others sunscreens that we call chemical, but this sunscreen attracted a lot of attention, it looked like paint, people had their faces painted white, nowadays they have changed the way sunscreen is made with zinc oxide, almost all sunscreens nowadays it has zinc oxide because it can protect from various ranges of radiation and it is a cheap product but currently they formulate it in a micronized way it ends up with small spheres today it not only reflects it also absorbs the sun's radiation but it has It has to be made specifically for this, so if we take the minancora to be able to have a sunscreen effect, we would have to make that thick layer and have a white face.
a very thick layer will help with protection from the sun, it will look whitish, but it won't protect completely. I think it's simpler and safer to use a sunscreen and if you want, the ones with more zinc oxide are what we call mineral and there are several out there, another question is whether the minanchor could help lighten the armpit, which leads me to the fact that the minanchor can even be used as a deodorant, as it does with controlling the production of bacteria that live in the area, these are the bacteria that they cause the bad smell, this effect of reducing the bad smell and that's what a deodorant does, it just won't control the amount of sweat because it's the aluminum compounds that do this and often when we have stains in the armpit area it's due to dryness And by the way, zinc oxide will help with this issue of hydration and the skin barrier, if the person is not allergic to another component, it can help.
