Healthy Natural Skin

Monday April 04th
Do You Know What Is In Your Night Cream?
What have consumer watchdog associations and cosmaceutical companies committed to safer skincare got in common? They are both working towards the same goal, that is to have really safe personal care products on the market.

They also want stricter government regulation of the skincare industry and more guarantees for the consumer. That means that when you pick up your next night cream on the shopping mall, you can be sure that there is nothing harmful in it!

Just let me give you some examples. Parfum looks chic on a label but in reality it is a trade secret and we do not know what is really in it! There could be up to 200 synthetic ingredients in it. We know that this word parfum is sometimes substituted with fragrance and the same rules apply. It is full of synthetic chemicals, none of which have been tested on humans, or very few at least! Actually, there are no rules at all. It is more like The Far West!

So, do you really know what is in your night cream? Lots of companies do not really care about health! Cheap and cheerful is their motto but that also means a risk for the consumer, like you and me. Their products are full of parabens, fragrances, mineral oils, PABA esters and other nasty chemicals which have been shown to be harmful to human health.

Not the healthiest thing to go to bed with at night. Yet these chemicals are in thousands of products and the health risks are there but nobody takes action, apart from the consumer groups I have mentioned above.

Let me tell you about some really remarkable ingredients which very few companies bother to put in their night creams, simply because of the expense.

But one company in New Zealand cares and has decided to sign The Compact For Safe Cosmetics which puts it in very select company indeed. The name of the organization means what it says and only companies who are really producing safer cosmetics can actually sign up.

This company has produced night creams and face creams which really do have cutting edge ingredients in them and they are also totally skin friendly because they are derived from plants, bark, flowers and trees.

One of these will actually devour free radicals. The second one will penetrate the skin to replenish levels of hyaluronic acid, while the third one will actually help to regenerate collagen and elastin.

Why not find out more about what else these night creams contain. You will be amazed.