Natural Skin Care Products. Do The Ingredients Matter?
So you’re thinking what does it matter? The ingredients in natural skincare products don’t matter as long as the products work. I saw that exact comment on a skincare website recently.
I dont care whats in it as long as it works.
So first lets talk about why so many consumers are now turning to natural skincare products. There seem to be 2 reasons.
1. Bit by bit there is a growing realization that there are some fantastic naturally occurring substances that really are very good for your skin.
This is clearly true. A good example is Phytessence Wakame. This is a seaweed that has fantastic properties for optimum skin health. It is found around Japan and is eaten by the Japanese and is one of the big secrets of why Japanese women have such great skin.
A second example is Shea Butter, the oil from a tree found in Africa called the Shea tree. It is a very good natural moisturizer. There’s many more examples of naturally occurring substances that are very good for your skin and as good, often better, than the ingredients found in mainstream skin care products.
2. And more and more consumers are also finding out that there can be dangerous ingredients in big brand skin care products. Often because the more natural alternative is way more expensive than a chemical alternative.
It’s not news to some that there are chemical ingredients in some skin care products and cosmetics and there are even some found in so called natural skin care products as well.
So if you consider those 2 reasons why so many people are turning to more natural skincare alternatives it would seem that the ingredients DO matter.
You the consumer wants SAFE ingredients and EFFECTIVE ingredients. So the whole consumer movement towards all natural and organic skincare products is driven by a concern about what INGREDIENTS are in them.
Give us safe and effective products any day.
Do all natural skin care products contain only safe and effective ingredients? No sadly.
The good news though is that there are some excellent, safe and effective natural skin care products around.
The best natural skincare products are made by a company that clearly lists all the ingredients in it’s products on it’s website and is also a signatory to the Compact For Safe Cosmetics.
That’s pretty persuasive. I tell you who they are at my website.