What if I told you that many of the so-called natural skincare products in the marketplace today are anything but? Could you be surprised?
Similar to the organic health food industry, natural skincare is definitely an emerging market that's not gone unnoticed by the large cosmetic companies cosmetics. This would be a very important thing as this should bring better, safer products to the market.
But as you might have already noticed with foods, "organic" and "natural" are occasionally anything but. As an example, seafood could be labeled "Organic" although it contains mercury and other dangerous chemicals. As another example, meat could be labeled "Natural" whatever your pet is fed or how they're raised, effectively making the word meaningless.
I possibly could continue in regards to the natural food industry, but let's focus on similar deceptions used in the natural skincare industry.
Several large international corporations are now actually carrying lines of natural skincare products. Just how can we know if they are really great for us or if they're yet another attempt to pass an inferior and potentially harmful product to unsuspecting people hooked by the "natural" tag?
Read on and I provides you with some key things to find when trying to find natural skincare products to help you make just this kind of determination.
It must be clear what other larger company (if any) controls the business whose products you're considering. The big players can spend more on an item name than we shall on a four year college education. Obviously it'll sound trustworthy. If in the fine print somewhere it says something like "Division of Humongous Global Conglomerate Corp", do you think they really grow their very own aloe and hand pick it for quality?
Now, I'm not saying don't consider large companies here. I'm just saying be fully aware who you're buying from so you can make an educated choice.
Ingredients should really be readily available. You can't evaluate the ingredients if you can't see them, and many companies make it hard to find a real ingredients listing before you have the merchandise in your hand.
If shopping on the internet, be immediately wary of any company that sounds good, looks good, but does not list the actual ingredients anywhere on their site. I will explain more about some less than honest practices companies use later.
Ingredients should NOT include parabens, fragrance, or petroleum based alcohol. These ingredients are not good for your skin layer but are widely used because they are cheap and help preserve the merchandise or, in the event of fragrance, entice you to keep buying it as it smells nice. Several of those are not only harmful, but are suspected carcinogens. And to think they are being absorbed through the outer skin!
Active ingredients should really be mostly plant based. An example of a leading edge ingredient used in the most effective natural skincare products is Phytessence Wakame, an exotic kelp native to the Japanese Sea which supports keep skin youthful looking. Another is CoQ10, a supplement like substance that is found in all of our body's cells and is very important for healthy skin.
A very important factor you should understand when reading ingredients listings is that even plant derivatives sometimes must be processed slightly in order for it to be usable by our bodies. At this point they're often given un-friendly, chemical sounding names. That is required by law and is referred to as the INCI (International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients) code.
Educating yourself is the sole sure method to evaluate what is natural and what is not. As a general rule, if two products have ingredients with the exact same name, but one hails from plants and one hails from petroleum, always discard the merchandise with the petroleum derived ingredient.
The very best natural skincare products will contain at least 50% active ingredients. As I alluded earlier, some companies take part in a little trickery here. They'll include an impressive variety of natural ingredients which actually only constitute a small fraction of the complete, making them ineffective and a waste of your money.
Make no mistake about any of it, natural skincare items are here to keep and are aggressively competing for the dollars. The data in this guide will begin you off on the proper foot in your look for honest, effective, safe natural skincare.
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