by Brett Seagrott
Allow me tell you why you must be able to eat your skin care products!
I’m sure you’re thinking this is a nonsensical thing to say but if you use skin care products and prioritize your health then you really should be able to eat skin care products.
I’m in no doubt that you already realize 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
Why do skincare companies make use of hazardous chemicals in their products?
You’ve no doubt already guessed the answer – MONEY! Profits, profits and more profits! Your health and safety comes in a far-flung second to their multi million dollar profits.
Skin care companies manufacture to a predetermined price. It’s this issue which invariably leads to the use of dangerous and sub-standard ingredients in skin care products. The scientists and chemists who produce skin care formulas are restricted from including ALL the very best and most efficient ingredients – the ones which really work! They are set a budget and they must chose their ingredient mix within that limit! This simply leads to the use of chemicals in place of natural options because they are far cheaper. It also results in ineffective 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 dreadful 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!
Skin care products should be pure enough to Consume! This should be the target for manufacturers and one of your major criteria when choosing anti aging skin care products. At all times keep this in mind: active ingredients are adsorbed into your bloodstream so that means it’s equivalent as eating them!
As you would expect, 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 extensively more expensive. Shareholder pressures in the big|huge|giant multi nationals definitely don’t allow the fully natural choice to have a look in. They are absolutely focused on maintaining and developing their staggeringly excessive profit margins.
THE LOWDOWN ON ‘NATURAL INGREDIENTs’
We’ve all seen that term ‘natural ingredient’. But have you ever carefully examined the list of ingredients on an “All Natural” facial skin care product? Even with of the ‘All Natural’ claims, there’s a number of pretty alarming and utterly chemical sounding names printed there. But the skin care company might not really be deceiving you.
Ingredients are listed with their INCI names which is an global scientific categorization for all ingredients. This allows for consistency from product to product and allows consumers to simply compare ingredients across brands. INCI stands for “International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients” So, naturally sourced ingredients listed using their INCI label can and do appear to be chemicals even though they are not.
However 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.
Here’s an example for you – ‘Glycerine’. You’ll find this ingredient in skin care formulas as a humectant. What you absolutely want is natural plant based glycerine. But most companies use petroleum-based glycerine because it’s drastically cheaper. Plant based glycerine is entirely safe to consume. Who wants petroleum-based glycerine absorbed into their body?
SKIN CARE PRODUCTS – YOUR BOTTOM LINE
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 absolutely safe enough to eat, and which prices their products reasonably according to the cost of manufacture while settling for a fair profit. A big ask! While there are companies like that out there the sad truth is that there are not many and finding them is the trick.
That’s where I can help out. I worked for a skin care product manufacturer so I understand all the industry secrets. I’ve reviewed hundreds of skin care products. Click the links in the author resource box underneath and I’ll guide you to some exceptional anti aging skin care products whose all natural formulas have 2-3 times more actives than the majority of skin care companies (particularly the elite brands), charge about a third of the expensive major brands (and if you want to eat them you’ll be quiet safe!)