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TikTok 'Slugging' Trend Has People Coating Their Faces With Grease and beauty oils

The idea is not medically unsound, stressed Pagani, who conducted her research while a medical student in the Department of Dermatology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. "I've heard some dermatologists speak very highly about it, most often for addressing eczema on the hands," she added. "It definitely does have benefits.And with social media sites like TikTok exerting such a "strong influence on the younger population," she and her colleagues wanted to see if that platform's more than 1 billion users are likely to get the full picture of what slugging really involves.

"Information literacy" is what it's all about, he noted, meaning that those who turn to social media for health information know that they have to distinguish "between those making a good faith effort to help others navigate complex health issues and those who are more concerned about getting attention than about being right."