The Importance Of Purity In Skin Care Products
If I asked you to eat my anti aging skin care cream would you have the courage to do it?
I’m sure you’re thinking this is a ridiculous thing to say but if you use skin care products and treasure your health then you certainly should be able to eat skin care products.
I’m certain that you already know or at least have a feeling that you cannot trust skin care product manufacturers and their remarkable sounding marketing claims. Their biggest industry secret which they don’t want you to know is that their products can put you at risk for potentially damaging long term side effects because of a number of chemicals they use in their skincare formulas. This absolutely includes the well-known, big brand names.
If their manufacturing shortcuts and secrets became extensively known, their profits would take a hit. Once you know the details about the unsafe ingredients they use, you will see exactly what health dangers and risks you’re up against.
UNSAFE CHEMICALS
So, why precisely do skincare companies do something so severe as to utilize dangerous chemicals in their products?
Well, as you can guess, it all comes down to the almighty buck. Base line profits! Your wellbeing and protection comes in a far-away second to their multi million dollar profits. This is largely because of shareholder pressures (ie. GREED!)
Skin care companies manufacture to a prearranged price – and this is the core of the problem! The scientists and chemists who put together their products do not get a free hand in selecting ALL the very best and most efficient ingredients. They are set an upper budget constraint and they must formulate within that budget! This results in the inclusion of much cheaper chemicals in place of natural options and pitifully tiny dose amounts of the truly effective active ingredients.
Here’s an case in point: One of the skin care industry’s giants, an ‘elite’ brand (it starts with the letter C), uses a shocking chemical in their facial skin care formulas which is classified as a pesticide. It’s called TRICLOSAN – an anti-bacterial chemical which kills dangerous organisms on the skin BUT also destroys helpful bacteria! There is clinical data to indicate triclosan may be a factor to creating strains of bacteria that are unaffected by to antibiotics since it is so broadly used use in skin care products.
Why would any of us in our right minds let a chemical used in weed killers to be absorbed into our bodies!
So, here is the bottom line when it comes to anti aging facial skin care creams and the like. Their purity should be so good that you could quite safely eat them! This definitely should be the regulated norm for the manufacture of skin care products not to mention your top priority when selecting anti aging skin care products. The clear-cut reason that all skin care formulas should be pure enough to eat is because the active ingredients in them are absorbed into your bloodstream! This is exactly the same result as eating them!
Naturally it’s more expensive to use naturally sourced options. Sourcing high-quality, 100% natural moisturizing oils, vegetable-based waxes and silicones, reparative proteins, antioxidants, vitamins and plant extracts are significantly more expensive. Shareholder pressures in the big multi nationals just don’t allow the fully natural choice to have a look in. They are absolutely focused on maintaining and growing their staggeringly excessive profit margins.
THE WORD ‘NATURAL INGREDIENT’
Now, let’s talk about the phrase ‘natural ingredient’. Have you ever taken a really good look at the ingredients list on an “All Natural” anti aging facial skin care product? In spite of the ‘All Natural’ claims, there’s a quantity of pretty frightening and absolutely chemical sounding names in those lists. But the skin care company might not actually be lying to you so let me give an explanation.
Ingredients are listed using their INCI names which is an international scientific classification for all ingredients. This allows for consistency from product to product and allows consumers to easily compare ingredients across brands. INCI stands for “International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients” So, naturally sourced ingredients listed using their INCI name can and do sound like chemicals even though they are not.
Although the INCI name can be misleading! It does not differentiate between an ingredient that is derived from petroleum and another which is derived from a natural plant source if the end substance broadly has a similar structure.
By way of an example let’s look at the ingredient ‘Glycerine’. It is used in skin care formulas as a humectant. But, of course there are two options. The type of glycerine you want, without fail, is natural plant based glycerine. But the reality is that most companies use petroleum-based glycerine. Guess why? Yes – it’s significantly cheaper. Plant based glycerine is absolutely safe to eat. Who wants petroleum-based glycerine working its way into their body?
SKIN CARE PRODUCTS – WHAT TO CONCENTRATE ON
Clearly you need to be very particular with the skin care products you choose to use. The bottom line when comparing and sizing up brands is that you consider both purity (ie. No chemicals whatsoever – safe enough to eat) AND efficacy (number and dose amount of leading active ingredients).
The type of skin care company you should buy from is the type who orders their formulators to put together the very best formulas possible that actually work and are totally safe enough to eat, and which prices their products realistically according to the expense of manufacture while settling for a reasonable profit. A big ask! While there are companies like that out there the depressing reality is that there are not many and finding them is difficult.
That’s unless you have access to an industry insider like me! I was employed with an elite skin care product manufacturer. I know exactly what’s what when it comes to the science behind skin care products. I’ve reviewed hundreds of nutritional supplements (nutritional-supplement-truths.com) and skin care products (skincare-antiaging-secrets.com). Use the links in the author resource box below and I’ll point you to some cutting-edge anti aging skin care products. These are the ones that get my vote and which I chose to use in my own anti aging skin care program. In a nutshell, they’re completely natural formulas have 2-3 times more key actives than most skin care companies (especially the famous, elite brands), they’ll cost you about a third of the expensive major brands (and if you want to eat them you’ll be quiet safe!)