There are powerful reasons NOT to use an SPF moisturiser

Everyone now knows that sunburn is bad for the skin. And it is. In fact really bad. But does this mean you should be using an SPF moisturiser?

There is no doubt that exposure, and in particular overexposure to the ultraviolent rays of the sun is extremely bad for your skin. Over time overexposure to the sun can be one of the major factors, and in some women the major factor, leading to skin sun damage. It’s called photo ageing.

Skin sun damage is damage to the cells of your skin from exposure to ultraviolet radiation. It is a principle cause of premature ageing of your skin including the development of wrinkles and other signs of skin ageing such as lines, discolouration like age spots or liver spots, skin dryness and other symptoms of skin ageing.

However simply because overexposure to the sun causes premature ageing of the skin is not a sufficient reason to use an SPF moisturiser. Lets examine why.

First let us say that protecting yourself from the sun is extremely important, and we are not advocating that you spend time in the sun without protection. Photoaging, or damage to the skin from excess UV exposure, is a serious problem, but not nearly as serious as skin cancer, which can lead to death.

We are firm advocates of the importance of protecting yourself from the sun, firstly to protect yourself from skin cancer but also to keep your skin looking better, and to keep it healthier.

But this doesn’t necessarily mean that you should be using a moisturiser with sunscreen.

If you’ve read our site you will know that we seek to publicise the fact that many modern well known skin care products and cosmetics and other personal products contain chemical ingredients which may well damage your health. If this is news to you please read more of our website.

Unfortunately exactly the same concerns applied to SPF sunscreens. On a hazard scale of 0 to 10, with 10 being maximum health hazard, at the cosmetic safety database, there are sunscreens which attract scores of 8′s and 9′s. That’s scary.

This is a result of the fact that they use particular chemicals in the sunscreen to produce the sun protection effect.

Normally most of us do not spend large amounts of time in the sun. And so using an SPF sunscreen, on the odd occasion when you need it, may well pose limited risk. Not only that but in many cases you may only need to apply it to the face and hands, normally only during the hottest part of the day and normally only in summer.

However if you buy an SPF moisturizer, or a moisturiser with sunscreen in it, assuming you apply your moisturiser every day, you will be coating large areas of your body with potentially hazardous chemicals, each and every day of the year.

Not only that but you will be applying the sunscreen to areas of your body that may never normally need it.

Hopefully you see the point. Whilst in some circumstances using a sunscreen is better than taking the risk of sunburn, using it all day, every day, mostly when you don’t need it, is taking an unnecessary risk.

For this specific reason the company that manufactures what we consider to be the best natural skin care products in the world refuse to add any sunscreen to their products. Just like all of their products they refuse to use any ingredients which may pose any risk to the health of the user.

So if you are using a moisturiser without any sun protection factor what should you do if you’re going out in the sun in summer? Well by all means use a sunscreen when you absolutely need it, though in our view do so only when absolutely necessary. Read the rest of this entry

Why consider safety when looking for the best skin products?

Many women spend their time trying all sorts of lotions and potions looking for the best skin products. However they fail to recognise one crucial factor in their search for skin care products that work.

That factor is safety.

The vast majority of women don’t even know that many skin care products contain chemical ingredients that may actually harm your skin and your health, and that therefore the safety of these products is an issue.

This may well come as a surprise to you. It may stun you to know that many well-known skin care products that you may have in your bathroom cupboard right now contain ingredients that have been linked, in some cases, to cancer, can contain petrochemical products and also contain ingredients which are known to irritate the skin.

So if you’re looking for the best skin products the first question to ask yourself, before asking how well they work, is how safe they are.

And it’s not just skin care products, the same applies to large numbers of other personal products such as cosmetics, soaps, shampoos, deodorants and other personal products.

There’s no need to take our word for it. Take one of those bottles out of the cupboard and have a look at the ingredients listed on the label. Then go to the Cosmetic Safety Database and type some of the names of those ingredients into their search tool and see what results you get.

At the database you’ll find out much more about the types of health risks associated with many of the chemical ingredients found in skin care products.

There is never any need to take any risks with your health or your skin when buying skin care products, or for that matter other personal products. There are highly effective natural ingredients which work extremely well at producing high quality skin care without the risks associated with so many chemical and petrochemical ingredients found in our mainstream products.

So why don’t the big brand companies just junk the chemical ingredients and use a natural alternative? It all comes down to cost. The chemical ingredients are usually extremely cheap and the natural alternatives are usually much more expensive.

And because these companies spend so much money on marketing and in particular on television advertising they need to keep the cost of the ingredients in the products as low as possible so the products remain price competitive.

It has been known for generations that some naturally occurring ingredients are extremely good for your skin. Various varieties of seaweed, natural oils such as avocado oil and jojoba oil, seeds such as grapeseeds and even fish oil are all very good for your skin and quite safe. In fact all of these have been eaten for generations.

And it’s perfectly possible to buy highly effective natural skin care products that contain safe ingredients such as these, and which work very well on your skin. The best skin products are natural skin care products which do not contain any artificial chemical ingredients. These products are safe.

But the obvious question is this. If these natural ingredients are much more expensive than their chemical alternatives surely the products which use them must also be extremely expensive?

In fact that is not necessarily the case. The company that makes the best natural skin care products in the world actually sells the products at a competitive price when compared to the big brands.

They do this by avoiding television advertising, and other expensive marketing. It’s really quite a simple strategy. Apply your budget to product quality rather than marketing, and when you get a new customer that customer usually remains a customer for life.

Add to that a full 90 day money back guarantee so that prospective customers can try the products risk free and you have the recipe for cost-effective and high quality natural skin care products that work very well, and which keep the customers very happy. Read the rest of this entry