Natural Skin Care Products
The Chemical Free Alternative?
Natural Skin Care Products are based on natural derived ingredients like extracts of plants, flowers, herbs and essentials oils.
Natural skin care products came a long way from the home-made creams and potions you had to keep in the fridge. The beauty industry has recognised that their consumers are striving for natural products to improve their health without compromising the effectiveness of a high tech product.
New technology and science have found substitutes to harmful chemicals and preservatives that can make natural skin care products last a normal shelf live without loosing their effectiveness.
What Makes A Product Natural?
Not every product that claims to be natural is in fact based on natural ingredients. Natural skin care products can also contain parabens and other chemicals.
Other all natural cosmetic products may use ingredients that are not organic and contain chemical residues.
Look out for products that certify organic ingredients and do not contain chemical presevatives as listed below.
Chemical Preservatives in Skin Care
The skin is the largest organ that can absorb healthy and unhealthy substances that are applied to it. Most cosmetic and skin care products contain nasty chemicals and preservative like parbens. The safety of parabens have been questioned lately. Paraben have been linked to breast cancer and can cause contact dermatitis.
Cosmetic preservatives are those chemicals added with no other function in the formula other than to keep the product from spoiling.
Because many personal care products today are water-based, they provide an inviting medium for microbial growth unless precautions are taken. Spoilage occurs when bacteria, moulds, yeast or other micro-organisms find their way into the product and spread unchecked.
Contamination of products can occur at two points: 1) during manufacturing; and/or 2) during use by the consumer. Traditional chemical preservatives used in products today include:
- Parabens (methyl, ethyl, propyl, and butyl)
- Formaldehyde
- Quaternium 15
- Diazolidinyl urea
- Imidazolidinyl urea
- DMDM Hydantoin
- 2-bromo-2-nitropropane-1,3-diol
- Sodium hydroxyglycinate
- Phenoxyethanol
- Sorbic acid / Potassium sorbate
- Methylisothiazolinone
- Methylchloroisothiazoline
Non Toxic Skin Care
Scientific evidence shows that the exposure to chemicals in the environment as well as chemicals that the skin absorbs is slowly poisoning us.
Natural skincare products that are formulated using compounds that are close to our genetic makeup and organism friendly are less likely to cause harm or cause a toxic overload that contributes to the accelerated aging process of the skin.
Eliminating toxins out of your live as much as possible is a major factor to slow down the aging process. Toxins are attacking the cells in our body, causing irreversable damage over time that lead to premature aging and ill health.
Natural Skin Care Products For Skin Rejuvenation
The skin is a living and vital organ with tremendous potential for self-repair and self-rejuvenation provided it get what it needs to do that, meaning optimal nutrition from the
inside and nourishment and protection from the outside.
Natural skin care products help the continious rejuvenation process of the skin by eliminating
some of the toxins the body has to neutralize. The fewer toxins the body has to neutralize with its own antioxidants the more damage control it can do.
Shopping For Natural Skin Care Products
In order to find a natural skin care product you just about need to become an expert in label reading.
Most ingredients, even the natural ones are stated in their chemical name. This can get quite confusing.
As a general rule, the chemicals listed above are the most common preservatives used in cosmetics and are a good indication if the product is natural or not.
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