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

Here’s a resource in your search for the best skin care products

The intention of our website is to alert you to some of the risks inherent in many of the personal products, and in particular modern skin care products, that you may use now. And to show you how to find the best skin care products that are safe and highly effective.

Today we wanted to show you a fantastic resource which you can use to research all sorts of things that will be useful to in your quest to educate yourself about modern skin care products.

It’s called the Cosmetic Safety Database. It’s an organisation dedicated to exposing some of the health risks of our personal products. It seeks to expose the risks inherent in the use of so many chemical and petrochemical ingredients in personal products because the authorities allow companies that make these products to use these chemical ingredients in them.

These products include skin care products, cosmetics, soaps, shampoos, deodorants and a whole lot more. All of these can be researched at the Cosmetic Safety Database.

When you enter the website you will see a box where you can enter a word to search. You can search ingredients found in your products, you can search product names and you can search the names of the manufacturers of products as well.

Here’s an example of a search. This is the result for a product called Home Skin Lab Effective Wrink’less The Wrinkle Corrector

Read the page and you will see information about the potential health risks which, according to the Environmental Working Group (EWG} who run the database, are posed by use of this particular product.

Each product is given a score out of 10, with 0 meaning that there is little or no perceived health risk attached to this product, and 10 meaning that it is considered to be a high hazard to your health.

You will see that ingredients in the product are linked to cancer, developmental and/or reproductive toxicity, allergies and/or immunotoxicity and amongst other things neurotoxicity and endocrine disruption. And irritation to the skin, just wonderful for a skin care product. And there’s lots more.

If you scroll down the page you’ll see each of the ingredients of concern listed, with a score, and some of the perceived health risks identified.

Now we should say there is no black-and-white in these things. This is the view of the Environmental Working Group and we are absolutely certain that the manufacturer of the product would dispute these results, as you would expect. We’d prefer to believe the EWG.

And EWG themselves note that there are data gaps, namely that not all the information they would like to see available is available. And of course there are always experts on both sides of an argument and there will be plenty of people to dispute these results.

However we always preferred to err on the side of caution. Why use a particular skin care product when there may be health risks attached to its use, and in particular where there are outstanding high quality natural skin care products available which use none of the potentially harmful chemicals, and which work very effectively. These are the best skin care products on the market, and they are totally safe.

So there you have a wonderful resource that you can use if you are in doubt about any particular product, or any manufacturer, or indeed anything that you see on the label of a product. We accept that there is some looseness in the risks indicated, however we would always prefer to use high quality natural skin care products manufactured by a company that has a complete philosophical commitment to using only high quality safe and natural ingredients that produce a very effective skin care outcome. Read the rest of this entry