Sensitive Skin
« Previous EntriesSensitive Skin Needs Sensitive, All Natural Skin Care
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
In order for you to be able to successfully treat sensitive skin, the products that you choose have got to have the right ingredients.
What it is that you need are healthy, natural compounds that will provide your skin with the effective oils, antioxidants, and essential nutrients that it needs to be healthy.
Unfortunately, the products that you are using probably do not contain any of these things.
The ads that you see in magazines and on television touting the latest products from the major cosmetics companies as the safest and most effective skin care products ever made are pure works of fiction.
These companies will stop at nothing in order to save a dime, and the result of their greed is that you get to use products that are both ineffective, and potentially harmful to you.
What you will find in the typical formula designed to treat sensitive skin are chemicals. The cosmetics industry is infamous for their use of questionable chemical agents, instead of the natural ingredients that are just as, or more effective when fulfilling the same roles.
You may be wondering why it is that the use of these chemicals is a problem, and I am going to give you the most direct answer possible.
The chemical agents commonly used to make skin care products can actually kill you. While they may not seem to be having any sort of detrimental affect on your health right now, they are slowly building up in your system.
Some of these have been shown to cause such acute ailments as circulatory collapse, respiratory failure, coma, and even sudden death.
There are many chemical agents that are regularly used in sensitive skin formulas that cause the development of one type of cancer or another. These types of ingredients must be carefully avoided if you are to be assured of maintaining your health.
You need to boycott the companies that continue to endanger their customers through using these toxic agents in their products.
You already know what types of ingredients should go into your skin care formulas, so now let me tell you about a couple of specific compounds that can work wonders when it comes to altering your appearance.
They will actually reverse the processes that are responsible for the formation of the lines and wrinkles on your skin, and the effect that this has is simply unbelievable.
The ingredients that you should look for in sensitive skin products are Functional Keratin, and Phytessence Wakame Extract.
The first of these is a pair of keratin proteins that when used together cause your body to produce cells that spur a large increase in the production of collagen and elastin.
Phytessence Wakame Extract comes from kelp, and it will prevent the breakdown of your hyaluronic acid.
The higher levels of connective tissues produced by these ingredients in your sensitive skin care products will cause the lines and wrinkles on your face to simply disappear.
This is the kind of effective skin care that you deserve. Use these products from now on, and you will never have a doubt that your decision to switch was a smart one.
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Sensitive Skin Care Products and Natural, Plant Based Ingredients
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
If you look closely at the labels of what are advertised as sensitive skin care products, you will find nothing either sensitive to your skin or to your body as a whole.
In fact, most of the cosmetics products on the market are harmful to you in one way or another. This is because the ingredients that the majority of the industry uses are not fit for human consumption.
What is it that I mean by consumption? If you put a substance upon your skin, and allow it to be absorbed, then it is the same thing as if you had eaten whatever compounds were in the product.
Regardless of how the substance enters the body, it will quickly become a part of your bloodstream, and once that happens it will be dispersed throughout every inch of your being.
If your sensitive skin care products contain the healthy, natural, plant based compounds that they should, then them being absorbed into your system is not a big deal at all.
If however, the products that you are using have been developed using the chemical agents that have become so common nowadays, then you have a major problem on your hands.
The cosmetics industry has been under fire over the use of the potentially harmful chemicals. The more dangerous ones have already been banned from use throughout Europe, and the United States is working diligently to achieve the same goal. It is not going so well in the States however, as the legal system has consistently sided with the cosmetics companies.
These agents used in sensitive skin care products and other cosmetics formulas have been proven to be toxic to humans, and in many cases are carcinogenic in nature.
Until there is finally a worldwide ban on the use of such agents in skin care formulas, you will have to be diligent about avoiding the products that contain them. Look for the products that are available that are 100% all natural.
Although you will end up getting your skin care formulas from a company that you have probably never heard of before, rest assured that the quality that you need is there.
If you want to guarantee that the products that you are getting are the safest ones possible, you need to buy them from one of the companies that have signed the Compact for Safe Cosmetics.
These are the companies that are specifically contracted by the European Union, under the agreement, to make sensitive skin care products that contain nothing that is even suspected of being able to cause harm to humans. These formulas are the safest that you can get, and the results that some of them will give you are simply extraordinary.
If you could get your hands on sensitive skin care products that could trigger the renewed growth of your collagen and elastin, how happy would that make you?
Well, the products that contain Functional Keratin will give you that benefit. Give products such as those created by the Xtend Life Natural Products Company. They are a proud signer of the Compact for Safe Cosmetics.
Try out their incredible anti aging skin care formulas and you will never regret your decision to leave the major corporations behind.
Herbal Skin Care Products
Monday, August 3rd, 2009Are herbal skin care products better for your skin’s health and appearance?
If they contain only natural extracts and oils from plants or nutrients like protein and antioxidants, they are excellent choices for your daily skincare regimen. But, sadly, most of them are only called “herbal” because of the fragrance.
Generally speaking, fragrances are not good for your skin’s health or appearance. They are among the most common causes of allergic and adverse reactions. Any kind of added fragrance, whether it is naturally occurring or chemically derived can cause a bad reaction.
The natural fragrances that you will often see in herbal skin care products are called “essential oils”. The name, itself, is misleading. But, concentrated fragrances have been referred to by that phrase since the days of the apothecaries.
Essential oils are often confused with essential fatty acids, which are nutrients, a primary component of the skin’s sebum, its natural moisturizer. Essential fatty acids can help nourish and replenish the skin’s moisture content. Essential oils do not contain fatty acids. They really aren’t even oils.
All of the herbal skin care products that I have evaluated contain essential oils. Some of them are:
- Rosewater
- Lavender oil (not really an oil)
- Linalool
- Lemon balm
- Orange blossom water
- Clary sage
- Oil of clove
- Peppermint
- Spearmint
They are usually created using steam distillation. Petals, leaves and other parts of the plants are mixed with water and sealed in the distiller. The resulting solution is water-based, but does not mix well with water. It is typically added to ethanol or actual oils for mixing purposes.
Any of those ingredients can cause allergic reactions when applied directly to the skin. Some of them are more irritating than others. For example, linalool is a common allergen.
The best herbal skin care products do not contain added concentrated fragrances. Instead, they have a slight pleasant scent due to the extracts that they contain.
One of the most beneficial extracts comes from wakame kelp, a kind of seaweed native to Asia. It was introduced to the West because of its high nutritional content and eventually found its way into a scientist’s laboratory.
Wakame had a reputation as a beauty preserver. Scientists wanted to understand if that was a “folk tale” or an actual benefit. They found that herbal skin care products containing wakame inhibit the breakdown of hyaluronic acid.
Hyaluronic acid acts to hold the skin’s outer cells together, making the surface smooth and tight. The skin’s level of hyaluronic acid normally declines with age. That decline is not the only cause of wrinkles and other signs of aging, but it is one of them.
Wakame works by inhibiting enzymatic activity that breaks down hyaluronic acid. So, gradually, the skin’s content begins to rise, again, eventually reaching that of a much younger person.
So, now you have a long list of ingredients to avoid when you are buying herbal skin care products and one to look for. But, there are many other beneficial extracts. You might want to learn about those, too.
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