Natural Facial Products with Antioxidants Can Repair Damaged Skin
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010The natural facial products on the market include cleansers, masks and anti-aging creams. Toners and astringents are available, too. But, most people really don’t need them.
What everyone needs is a good moisturizer. A recent study conducted by the University of Maryland showed that plain old tap water strips the skin’s protective oils. Doctors call the oils sebum.
Sebum provides protection, but also starts to smell bad, if it is not washed away on a regular basis. So, bathing is necessary. It’s just as necessary to follow each bath or shower with the use of a good moisturizer.
When you go to compare the moisturizers on the market, you will see that there is a huge difference in price. Cheap products go for less than a dollar per ounce, while expensive ones containing the anti-aging ingredients can go for as much as $100 per ounce. You have to wonder what the difference is. Let me tell you about it.
The cheapest products are not actually moisturizing. Most of them contain an ingredient called petrolatum. Petrolatum is nothing more than white petroleum jelly. You probably realize what petroleum jelly does to your skin. You certainly wouldn’t think that natural facial products would contain it. But, some of them actually do.
Glycerin is a much better moisturizer. It can be derived from plant fibers or from chemical compounds. You would probably need to ask the manufacturer in order to find out where the ingredient comes from. Some manufacturers provide a great deal of information on their websites. Their hope is to inspire confidence.
Other manufacturers provide very little information. There hope is that people don’t care about ingredients. A sales rep from one of the companies providing natural facial products told me that one day. No one cares what the ingredients are. I care and so should you.
Grape seed oil is an excellent moisturizer with a unique filming ability. This ability allows it to hold moisture in and keep dirt out of the pores. So, it is one of the dual purpose ingredients. Actually, it has another purpose. It serves as an anti-aging ingredient, because it has antioxidant activity. Antioxidants prevent and repair free radical damage.
If we’re smart, we will avoid some of the things that trigger free radical damage. Overexposure to the sun and cigarette smoking are two of the things that can easily be avoided.
But, we have to use antioxidant-rich natural facial products, because we cannot avoid everything that could damage our skin. That brings us full circle back to taking a bath.
If you live in an area serviced by a public treatment facility, the water that you shower in contains toxins. Many of them are used to control bacteria and algae levels. The toxins can cause increased numbers and activity of the free radicals naturally present in the skin’s layers.
That’s just one more reason to use antioxidant-rich natural facial products on a daily basis. Keeping free radical damage to a minimum will keep you looking younger.
Natural Skin Treatments or Toxic Skin Care?
Sunday, October 18th, 2009You may have gotten to the point where you are wondering whether or not there are any skin treatments out there that really work. You are not alone in your dismay over the performance of many of the products on the market, because there are plenty of others that are as frustrated as you are.
Where is the quality that we should expect when buying cosmetics products?
If you are expecting quality from the products that the major cosmetics companies are forcing down your throat with their constant marketing blitz, then you are not going to be happy with what you get. The truth is that these products will fail you every time, due to the fact that the ingredients that are used to make them are of very questionable quality.
Most of what goes into the various skin treatments on the market are chemical agents, many of which have been under scrutiny for a number of years, because of suspicions that they could possibly be harmful to humans. As a result of numerous studies it has been discovered that a good many of these agents are in fact toxic to humans, and are not safe for you to use.
The cosmetics companies have been able to avoid regulation intended to ban these substances in North America, and many other parts of the world. The European Union however, has been successful in their quest to have these agents removed from use.
Hopefully, the U.S. cosmetics industry will soon be prevented from using ingredients such as these in their products no matter where on the planet they try to produce them.
The only reason that the cosmetic giants are willing to expose you to skin treatments containing neurotoxins and carcinogens, is because they are more cost effective for them to use than the natural ingredients that you should be getting instead.
I will not purchase products from a company that thinks so little of my well being as to feed poisons to me, which is why my products come from the entities governed under the European Union standards.
The formulas that these companies offer you are 100% all natural. What you will get with your purchase are products that contain ingredients that are primarily plant based.
These ingredients provide your skin with the essential nutrients, and antioxidants that are necessary in order for your skin to be healthy. These products will often offer you quite a bit more.
One of the best skin treatments coming out of Europe is the formula developed by a company from New Zealand. What they have done is put together a combination of two ingredients, one a mixture of keratin proteins and the other an extract from a variety of kelp, which actually reverse the process that causes your skin to develop lines and wrinkles.
Their skin treatments allow you to produce more collagen, elastin, and hyaluronic acid, which give your skin back the firm, full, wrinkle free appearance that you used to enjoy. If you want formulas that are safe, and that truly work, then these are the ones that you want to use.
Sensitive 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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