• Monday May 02nd
  • Your Criteria For Rating Skincare Products

  • What is the connection with banning phthalates from babies drinking bottles and rating skincare products, you may ask?  This is a good question and the answer fortunately is very simple. Well, lots of plastic objects and aging skincare products contain these softening chemicals. This includes everything from plastic cling film to plastic water bottles. They may soften everything up but they are actually harmful to the human organism , as research has recently shown. They are also suspected of being carcinogenic.

    The suspicion that there might actually be a connection between pregnancy and premature births has now been proved by at least one study carried out at The University of Michigan School of Public Health. That study showed those mothers who have given birth to premature babies had three times the amount of phthalates in urine samples than

    These phthalates are everywhere and when we come to aging skincare products, this no exception. They are contained in the fragrance ingredient which has nothing to do with natural perfumes derived directly from beautiful flowers in a lovely meadow. These so called fragrances are made up of synthetic chemicals. These formulae are top secret as well so that means we never get to discover what really is in them. However we do know that the phthalates are in there and very few people are even aware of this and never even bother about it.

    Our first criteria for making sure that there are no harmful chemicals when rating skincare products is to make sure that the company is actually committed to safer skincare- the best way to check is by looking at their website and then also to see whether they have signed up to The Campaign For Safe Cosmetics.

    What are the ingredients that we NEVER want to see in any skincare products we buy? Here is a short list and it is salutary to remember that a so-called organic shampoo actually contained up to TWELVE petrochemicals!

    The main ones to avoid are :-

    • parabens
    • fragrances
    • mineral oils
    • 1.4-dioxane
    • formaldehyde derivatives

    While the cosmaceutical companies are planning enormous publicity campaigns to reassure the public that all these chemicals are well within the safety health limits, the lobbies for safer skincare are gearing up to make the public more aware and also to lobby their government representatives.

    Why not take this a step further and see what a really committed cosmaceutical company offers which is also at the cutting edge as regards aging skincare products to-day.

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