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(Image credit: Rflct)

A controversial line of gamer-marketed "blue light protection" skin care products associated with content creator Rachell "Valkyrae" Hofstetter has been cancelled after strong negative backlash last hebdomad. The Rflct website is bypast, replaced with a breakable message to those who were associated with the sword"

"RFLCT is no longer available. Thank you to completely who played cardinal roles to conduct research, develop products, create a brand and serve as partners along our journey. While we believe in the formulations created, later farther reflection, have decided to move forward connected new paths, effectively terminating the RFLCT brand," the internet site says.

An image of the logo for cancelled skincare line Rflct

(Image credit: Rflct)

Rflct was a line of gamer-focused products that was supposed to "protect against and repair blue light damage" caused by exposure to screens. The products, and Valkyrae, immediately garnered strong execration for promoting gaming-and-tech-proprietary pseudoscience with few, if any, citations.

There is no medical consensus that photograph to blueness floaty through with screens causes hurt. Critics of the skin care pipeline pointed out that there are even studies saying that blue angel light ass have healthful effects in normal doses. The Rflct site was later updated with links to studies, merely it's clear that the damage was done.

You can read more more or less the controversy, and approximately the known skill behind blue light, in our original level on the Rflct skincare line of reasoning.

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