Healthy Natural Skin

Tuesday December 06th
Body Lotion And Creams- What They Are Forgetting To Tell You.
If you have firm and supple skin all over, you will not even need to read this post! The one ingredient that everybody is looking to find in body lotion and creams is collagen. There may be some exaggerated claims that it is sourced from plankton in the seabed which may well be true. The problem is that if you think that can give your skin that firmness and elasticity, then you may have to think again.

Why? The main problem is that this type of animal marine derived collagen is not bioavailable. That simply means that the molecular structure is not suitable for your skin. It cannot really penetrate it to the level that it should and therefore it will have a minimal effect on the dermis where it is all happening, or not, as the case may be.

. The second problem is that we really need this as we age. We are going to lose at least 2% of collagen as we age and this process starts really early, when we are twenty years of age!

Now what are the skincare companies who are making enormous profits, not telling you about their products? Well, first they are not mentioning that parabens lurk in their products very often. These can mimic estrogen and that means your whole endocrine system is at risk of being hijacked. They are suspected of being carcinogens. You will find these lurking under very long names as methylparaben or propylparaben.

Take acrylamaide, another very common ingredient. This is in fact linked to breast tumors. Then we have propylene glycol which is in countless products. This chemical is seriously implicated in skin irritation, liver failure and may actually skin cell growth from taking place, which is the very opposite of what body lotion and creams should be doing!

If you see that these items are included, you know that they are NOT the answer to the quest for the perfect body creams that you are looking for. Take a closer look at the label and make sure that there are only natural ingredients included :- natural vitamin E, shea butter and wakame which is derived from an algae. Why not click through and see what else really is in natural body lotions and cream.