The best nature skin care products are safe to use and fully guaranteed

Did you realise that in the US there is almost no regulation governing what ingredients go into skin care products? Did you realise that the FDA is not required to approve skin care products before they go on the market, and that any company that manufactures products that go on your skin, including cosmetics, can put virtually any ingredient that they want into the product?

And given the history of big business in the US, are you confident that these companies would only use safe ingredients in their products, despite the fact that there are many extremely hazardous ingredients which may be put into skin care products legally?

No we have no confidence either that the massive companies producing so many of the skin care products you see on the shelves today have a sufficient commitment to their customers that they wouldn’t do anything that might endanger their health.

That’s why we are so keen suggest that you use high quality nature skin care products rather than the big brands. That’s because there is ample evidence that there are some toxic ingredients in so many of the big brands. Just have a look at several of those toxic ingredients, though there’s many many examples, and if you’d like to find out more go to the Cosmetic Safety Database where you can spend some time reading more, or even searching out individual products or manufacturers to find out exactly what’s in those products and what the risk is to your health.

Lets look at a few examples.

1. Fragrances are wonderful things. Everybody likes to smell good, and what’s wrong with smelling good? Everyone assumes that a nice fragrance is distilled from roses or something like that. Sadly that is far from the truth. Most fragrances are simply synthetic chemicals manufactured in a laboratory, and many contain ingredients which can damage your health.

Lets do a search at the Cosmetic Safety Database and see what it tells us about fragrances. Click here to find the result.  You’ll see that fragrance is listed with a hazard score of 8 on a scale of 8 to 10 of hazard.

As you can see from the page fragrances can be linked to neurotoxicity, allergies, immunotoxicity and more. And you will see that there are 934 studies in the Pubmed science library referencing the toxicity of fragrances.

Unfortunately a fragrance is just a chemical, sometimes completely harmless, sometimes not. And sadly there are no regulations requiring companies that manufacture skin care products, or many other products that contain fragrances, to list the chemical ingredients of a fragrance. Usually all you see is “fragrance” on the label.

2. 1,4 Dioxane. This is a known carcinogen and is a byproduct of various industrial processes, and may, or may not, be found in many products. Use the search at the Cosmetic Database we you can see the risks from 1,4 Dioxane. They include the risk of cancer as well as much more. And you can see the link to products which may contain 1,4 Dioxane.

3. Parabens. Parabens are a class of preservative that are used in many skin care products. Here’s the search at the Cosmetics Database  Click on Propylparaben and you’ll see that it is linked to cancer, developmental and reproductive toxicity and immunotoxicity. It can be found in more than 8000 products. Sadly although there are many natural preservatives which work effectively parabens are much cheaper than the natural alternatives, and so are more commonly used.

Hopefully you’re beginning to get the picture, namely that the cosmetics and skin care industries are not regulated, and the companies that manufacture the products can put pretty much whatever they want into those products, and they do, notwithstanding that many of these ingredients are dangerous.

Nature skin care products, or at least the very best nature skin care products, are manufactured only with ingredients sourced from natural sources such as plants, and which are known to be safe to people.

The company that makes the best nature skin care products demonstrates its commitment to the safety of it’s customers by undertaking to only use ingredients which are “safe enough to eat”. In other words they put the health of their customers first.

If all of the above comes as a bit of a shock to you then it’s time for you to spend a little time researching, there’s plenty of information on the Internet about the dangers of many mainstream brands of skin care products, cosmetics and much much more. Read the rest of this entry

SPF 30 Moisturizers are popular. But is it a good idea to use a moisturizer with sunscreen?

It would seem that spf 30 moisturizers are becoming popular. After all it is now well known that the sun can damage your skin. We have talked about the serious effects of photoaging on your skin before. Skin sun damage is a serious issue, and many women now understand that one of the major causes of prematurely ageing skin, wrinkles, lines and skin dryness is overexposure to the sun.

However sunburn, or severe overexposure to the sun, can be much more serious than simply ageing your skin. It can kill you from skin cancer. And so it would seem to make sense that if you are applying a moisturizer, or for that matter any skin care products, every day, that having a sunscreen in them would be a good idea. And so many women opt to buy a moisturiser with spf 30 sun protection. But is this really a good idea?

On this website we seek to alert you to the dangers of chemicals in skin care products. Unfortunately the same problems apply for spf 30 moisturizers, or for that matter any skin care products that contain sunscreen. Unfortunately the chemicals that produce the desired effect, namely screening out the harmful UV rays of the sun, may have unwanted side-effects and can damage your health.

Here’s an example. One of the most commonly used chemicals to produce the result of screening out UV rays is Octinoxate. However Octinoxate can have side effects.

Although Octinoxate is found in a wide range of personal products such as many moisturizers, lip balms and lipsticks it is known that it can cause a range of unwanted effects on the skin including dermatitis, acne and rashes. Even worse, if you search it at the cosmetics database you’ll find that Octinoxate  is also linked to various allergies and immunotoxicity, reproductive toxicity, endocrine disruption and more.

Of course Octinoxate is not the only chemical used to produce a sunscreen effect in moisturizers. Moisturisers with spf 30 can use a variety of different chemicals to produce this effect. However others can also have side effects.

The owner of the company that we consider makes the highest quality natural anti aging skin products specifically avoids adding a sunscreen to the products, and you can read why right here.

Let’s think about it. How often do you actually need to protect itself from the sun? It’s usually only during summer during the middle of the day. Unless you’re on the beach it’s usually only your face, and you can protect your face with a good hat.

People who use an spf 30 moisturizer will usually use it on more than their face. They will use it in the winter as well as the summer, and they often use it more than once a day. Often it will cover a large area of the body. All day long.

If there are any risks at all from using a moisturizer with sunscreen then these risks are exacerbated by using it on large areas of the body, most of which does not need it, and mostly at times of the year and during times of the day that also do not require it. Read the rest of this entry

Anti Aging Skin Products containing fragrances can damage your health

Everyone likes to smell nice. There’s nothing wrong with that is there? That’s why so many of our personal products such as soaps, shampoos, deodorants, skin care products are much more contain fragrances.

What could possibly be wrong with smelling good?

Stay with us here and keep reading. You see a fragrance is nothing more than a chemical that smells good. Whilst we would all like to think that wonderful perfumes are made from essence of rosehip or something like that nothing could be further from the truth.

Fragrances are chemicals produced in a laboratory that smell nice. There are thousands of them, and most of them have never been tested to find out if they are safe for people to put on their skin.

Did you know that the European Union Scientific Committee on Cosmetic Products and Non-Food Products estimates that somewhere around 2 percent of all people can be allergic or hypersensitive to chemical fragrances?

Did you know that chemical fragrances are one of the top 5 allergens causing allergic reactions, and that includes asthma?

Did you know that in 1986 the US National Academy of Sciences recognized chemical fragrances as potentially leading to brain damage, because they were a potential neurotoxin?

So many anti aging skin products that you may use now contain fragrances. Everyone assumes that this is okay, no one questions it.

One of the most common fragrances synthetic musk. Studies have shown that people who use large quantities of personal products with fragrances will commonly have high levels of synthetic musk in their bodies. And new studies are showing that chemical fragrances are even to be found in the cord blood of our newborn babies.

Perhaps now you’re beginning to wonder if you should be putting those anti aging products on your skin at all? Good. You see chemical fragrances are only the start of the problem. There are so many other potentially harmful chemical ingredients in many anti aging products, as well as other chemical ingredients that have been clearly demonstrated to be dangerous to our health, including carcinogenic.

This is a scandal that the US government is now beginning to recognise with proposed legislation before the Congress now.

However our best anti aging tip is to avoid big brand-name anti aging skin care products. As well as being potentially dangerous to your health they are also relatively ineffective.

The best natural anti aging products do not contain any chemical fragrances at all. This is for all the reasons outlined above. They contain ingredients which are known to be safe and effective, and which work extremely well at producing the result that a consumer wants, namely high quality skin care.

And the best natural anti aging skin care products come with a money back guarantee.

Oh and by the way, what do you do if you like wearing perfume? After all perfume is just another chemical fragrance. Read the rest of this entry