Healthy Natural Skin

Monday January 02nd
Best Skin Care Products – How Can You Judge What Is Safe Or Not?
Very often people want the moon! They want perfectly safe, natural skin care products which cost very little. In addition, they want noticeable results within a few weeks. Unless they know how to choose carefully, they are not going to meet any of their own criteria! Let us look at what is available and what are the pitfalls to avoid.

First, the word fragrance or ‘parfum’ is often used to indicate that the product will smell pleasant. But at what cost? The problem here is that the word fragrance usually hides a cocktail of chemicals as all of these are synthetically made and they are not produced at all from organic or botanical sources such as rose petals. The smell may be something akin to roses but it is just all chemical stuff. Think about this before you buy what is supposedly one of the safe and natural skin care products on the market to-day.

The harsh reality about the fake rose petals is that they are likely to produce an allergic reaction in some people or even worse, they may also provoke some hormonal disturbances. But worst of all, very few of these ingredients have been assessed for safety. The reason is that under the pretence of being a trade secret, there is no need to list the ingredients as this would be giving the competition an unfair advantage. Never mind the poor consumer who may well have a nasty reaction. All’s fair in love and cosmetics!

Some companies have now taken a great step forward and refuse to use parabens which are just chemical agents which help prolong the shelf life of a product. They have been known to mimic estrogen activity which is one of the causes of cancer. Actually traces of these parabens were also found in the tissues of breast cancer patients.

But unfortunately, these companies are still in a minority and you have to look fairly carefully. The problem is that while this is laudable, they are taking short cuts on other chemical and synthetics that they are using and the product may still be risky.

Whey do you think that the Environmental Working Group (EWG) has listed thousands of ingredients and products on its Skin Deep Cosmetics Database ? The answer is to try and raise awareness and protect consumers because all is not well, in the cosmetics and skin care products world. That is why the EWG was a founder member of the The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and is dedicated to warning consumers of the dangers of some of the rather nasty ingredients.

The first most important step is to find a company which is dedicated to eliminating all the harmful nasties from their products, is committed to research, is a member of the Compact For Safe Cosmetics and is above all transparent about all the ingredients that they use and is proud to list them and explain why they are included in their products. Now that is how to find the best skin care products on the market to-day. Researching all this is time well spent. Why not visit the main website to get a head start on this?