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Have you ever taken a pinch of your skin, say on your arm, and pulled and let go? If you have you’ve observed that it snaps back into place when you let go. There’s skin elasticity in action. Do that test with a young girl, and an older woman, and you’ll see a big difference in the results that you observe. The older woman will find that the skin goes back into place much slower, because over time as she has aged her skin has lost it’s elasticity, gradually. What creates skin elasticity? Primarily its collagen and elastin. You’ve probably heard of collagen and elastin, 2 skin proteins that help hold your skin together and create elasticity in the skin. Elastin is a good example. It is a strong rubbery like substance that we find right throughout our bodies in places like our ligaments. Both collagen and elastin form fibers which help our skin hold together and contribute to that elastic feel. But the stores of collagen and elastin in our skin decline as we age. Collagen for example breaks down through the process of glycation, and others. You don’t need to know why collagen and elastin break down and decline with age, what you need to know is that it happens, and how to deal with it. And of course the loss of skin elasticity is the result of the loss of collagen and elastin. That may be happening to you, depending on your age. Now of course it’s not news that our skin loses elasticity from the loss of elastin and collagen, and the big brand skin care companies know this, and know that consumers know it. So they put collagen and elastin in the bottles of skin care products that you see advertised and on the shelves. But sadly this approach doesn’t actually do anything to increase your collagen and elastin stores in your skin because the molecule size of both of these is too large to enter your skin, they just remain on the surface. So if they don’t work why in the world would they put them in the bottles? Because they know that having collagen and elastin listed on the label sells lots of bottles. So if adding them to the bottle doesn’t actually do anything how do you get more collagen and elastin into your skin as you age? It’s entirely possible to increase skin elasticity by increasing collagen and elastin and it’s done by a revolutionary product called Cynergy TK which is manufactured in New Zealand. What Cynergy TK does is to stimulate the skin to produce more of it’s own elastin and collagen. The wool of sheep is used to produce Cynergy TK and studies have shown visible reductions in wrinkles within a few weeks use. But as a consumer you can’t buy Cynergy TK, you get it by using the worlds best skin care products that contain it. So if it works so well why aren’t the big brand name products using it? Because it’s much more expensive than putting a small amount of elastin and collagen in the bottle and putting that on the label. So then you’d assume that the natural skincare products that use it would also be expensive but that would be wrong too, they are actually quite cost comparable. Why? Because the regular big brand products have to be priced according to how much the big name companies spend on TV advertising, and that’s a lot. But the small niche company that makes the best products doesn’t because it doesn’t advertise on TV, so I’ll bet you’ve never heard of it. Oh, and they offer a money back guarantee. So yes there is a way to increase skin elasticity as you age, and improving skin elasticity is the key to combating skin wrinkles, lines and sagging in your later years. So if you are finding that as you age you’re beginning to see the results of loss of skin elasticity there really is something you can do about it. Try the worlds best natural skin care products and you’ll be able to see the difference yourself, risk free. Want to know more about the Best Natural Skin Care Products and about Skin Elasticity? Visit Peter’s Website Natural Health-Natural Skin Care. |
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The Number 1 Question For Older Women. Increasing Skin Elasticity.
Sunday, January 10th, 2010Anti Aging Skin Creams. Find Out The Good, The Bad And The Ugly News.
Thursday, January 7th, 2010| Scentsy | Flameless Candles | Wickless Candles |
As you get older the chances are very high that you’re becoming gradually more interested in finding the best anti aging skin cream. Because so many of us care about how we look as we age the market for skin care products and anti aging products is absolutely enormous. So today I’m here to give you the good news, the bad news and the ugly news about anti aging creams. Let’s start with the bad news. Very few anti aging creams or skin care products do very much. There’s a very simple reason and it’s called profit. There’s huge amounts of money to be made by producing cheap products and spending lots of money advertising on TV. Like any industry where there is billions of dollars at stake the big players usually focus on the best way to make the most money. That’s how it’s done and the result is a flood of low quality anti aging lines on the market. Produce a cheap low quality product and advertise on television and it’s a recipe to make millions or billions of dollars profit. That’s the bad news. Now to the ugly news about anti aging creams. Many of them contain ingredients which may be dangerous to your health as well as irritating to your skin. This may include products you use every day right now. There’s a simple reason for this. Chemical and petrochemical ingredients such as mineral oil and petrolatum (which are derived from crude oil) are incredibly cheap to buy and so using them in anti aging skin creams allows them to produce products which are extremely cheap to manufacture. There are many well-known natural ingredients that can be used in anti aging skin creams which are known to be safe and effective at promoting better skin health however in almost all cases these are much more expensive than the chemical alternatives. Now to the good news. There are small anti-aging companies that produce top shelf high quality anti aging skin creams and other natural skin care products that use highly effective natural ingredients that are also safe to apply to your skin. However because these ingredients are much more expensive the products cost much more to manufacture. However they are not more expensive to buy for one particular reason. This is the reason their products are cost competitive. These companies don’t advertise. They save massive amounts of money because they don’t advertise in the magazines on TV so it’s unlikely you’ve heard of them. But they understand that it is a viable business philosophy to produce more expensive higher quality products and to grow their customer base over time. Customers who buy the products quickly understand the quality of the products and will usually buy them for life. This is a long-term growth strategy rather than a strategy for short-term profits. So it is entirely possible to buy high quality skin care products such as anti aging skin creams but it’s unlikely that you will know who makes them because they aren’t advertised. One company has even gone so far as to offer a 100 percent money back guarantee because they are so confident about the quality of their products. Try to get a money back guarantee from one of the big anti aging companies. So there you have the good news and bad news about anti aging skin creams. Hopefully you’re more educated about how the anti aging industry works. Visit my website to find out where to source safe and highly effective anti aging skin creams. Visit Restore My Skin to find out more about Antiaging Skin Products or more about the best Anti Aging Skin Cremes. |
Would You Believe That Your Anti Aging Skin Care Products Can Be Killing You?
Thursday, January 7th, 2010| Scentsy | Flameless Candles | Wickless Candles |
Did you know that Ralph Nader has said that “Over the last 100 years, the rate of cancer in the U.S. has sky-rocketed from 1 out of 800 people diagnosed, to 1 out of 3 today.” Do you have any idea why? Of cause there is no definitive answer however there is a reasonable chance that one of the causes may be dangerous ingredients in personal and beauty care products such as skin care and anti aging products and cosmetics and more. Doubtless many of the ingredients found in so many products that most of us use every day are dangerous. And it’s not just anti aging skin care products, it’s even true of so many foods. Here’s a quick example of an ingredient that you may find in many personal products that you would be well advised to avoid. Mineral oil. Mineral oil is a byproduct of the distillation of crude oil and is therefore a petrochemical product. If you buy baby oil you’re buying pure mineral oil, sometimes with a fragrance added to it. You’ll find mineral oil in many personal, anti aging and skin care products and cosmetics and other products. It used in anti aging products as a moisturiser however mineral oil has no moisturising properties. It’s there because it forms a thin film of oil on your skin and that film prevents moisture loss. This works to some degree. Have you ever heard of a Material Safety Data Sheet? A Material Safety Data Sheet is a document that lists essential information for anyone handling a chemical, including important safety information. Read a Material Safety Data Sheet on mineral oil and you’ll see that it says that mineral oil is are “suspected carcinogens of the skin and scrotum, larynx, lung and alimentary tracts” and that mineral oils “may cause eye, skin and respiratory tract irritation” and also that “pre-existing skin disorders may be aggravated by exposure”. So mineral oil cause cancer and skin conditions. That’s only one of many different ingredients that you’ll see listed on the label of anti aging skin care products that may be dangerous. Look on the label of products you might have used this morning. How is it possible that products like these contain potentially dangerous ingredients? The FDA has no mandate to test either the efficacy or the safety of anti aging products on the market. You’re probably aware that big business has very little concern for the welfare of its customers, the cigarette companies are a good example of that. If they can get away with it they will. These ingredients are commonly used because they’re cheap. Cheaper ingredients means more profit. There’s excellent ingredients that they could use which are well known to promote better skin health but they’re more expensive. However some clever people have seen an opportunity here and have started small skin care and anti aging companies that produce excellent quality products, however because they put their money into product quality they cannot afford to advertise and compete on price. So you’ll most likely never hear about them. Through my website I try and inform readers about the risks of so many ingredients in anti aging products and the point them towards these small niche companies. If you’d like to find out more then visit my website. Visit Restore My Skin for more about the best Anti Aging Skin Products or more about the Best Natural Anti Aging Skincare. |
Want Great Looking Well Moisturized Skin? You Don’t Need The Best Moisturizer At All.
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010| Scentsy | Flameless Candles | Wickless Candles |
Confused? Surely to have well moisturized skin you need to find and use the best moisturizer? No not necessarily. So what I want to do with this article is to show you why you don’t need the best facial moisturizer, and give you 4 steps to great well moisturized skin. There’s one way to have well moisturized great looking skin that doesn’t sag or feel dry, looks great, has few wrinkles and makes you feel great. It’s to have healthy skin. If your skin isn’t healthy skin no amount of using the best face moisturizer there is will make it like that. I’ll say it again. The key to well moisturized skin is to have healthy skin. Because healthy skin is, almost by definition, well moisturized skin. If it isn’t it isn’t healthy. Makes sense. And why are you looking for the best moisturizer? Why aren’t you looking for a skin care line that makes your skin healthier? And why aren’t you also looking for other ways to make your skin healthy? So there’s other things you can do to make your skin healthy other than using great skin care products? There certainly is much more you can do to have well moisturized healthy skin. Here’s 4 things you need to do to keep your skin looking and feeling great, and moist. 1. A good diet is essential to good health, and a healthy body makes for a healthy skin. It all goes together. You need to eat lots of fresh vegetables and fruits every single day, and your body, and skin, will be healthier. 2. It’s equally important to exercise. If you exercise it makes your blood circulation better, and better circulation is important for your skin. 3. There’s 2 things you mustn’t do if you want to have great skin. Smoke or get sunburned. Both are just terrible for your skin, and no amount of skin moisturizing is ever going to repair the damage caused to your skin by smoking or excessive sunburn. 4. What’s the last thing you need to do to have great skin? Use the best natural skin care products available. There are some excellent natural skin care products that are specifically targeted to improving skin health, and along the way they moisturize better than the best rated moisturizer. There’s no point in just moisturizing, tackle overall skin health and skin moisture retention will do with it. Yes the skin care products that moisturize better than any others aren’t in fact a moisturizer at all. They are products that include natural moisturizers that are better than the ingredients in the big brand name moisturizers, but they aren’t moisturizers. And so if you search the best moisturizers you won’t even find them. So the best facial moisturizer isn’t really a moisturizer at all. And remember, there’s way more you can do to improve your skin than just using the best moisturizer. Want to know more about the Organic Skin Care Products and about the best moisturizer? Visit Peter’s Website Natural Health-Natural Skin Care. |
At 40 You’re Beginning To Wonder What The Top Skin Care For 40 Year Old Women Is.
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010| Scentsy | Flameless Candles | Wickless Candles |
It’s something you’ve avoided thinking about but the sad truth is that you’re almost, or past, forty. And you’ve noticed that your daughters skin is just so much better than yours. And you’ve finally come to an understanding of why your mother seemed so much more interested in skin care at 40 than she was at 30. There’s no secrets here. By forty a woman’s skin is starting to suffer the ravages of time. Now of course 40 isn’t old, but the skin aging process is well under way. So you’re looking for top skin care products for 40 year old women. But as well as that there’s much more you should be doing for your skin. Your skin health depends on your overall health, and so you need to be heeding all that advice you’ve heard for years about keeping fit and healthy. Because you need to remember that a healthy body leads to healthy skin and healthy skin looks great. But if you’re fat and unfit and spend your time on the couch and eat pizza’s and burgers you can’t be healthy, or have healthy skin. Sorry, I know that’s not good news but you need to make the effort to take care of your health and your health will take care of your skin. Don’t smoke, smoking is one of the absolute worst things you can do for your skin. So many women don’t seem to make the connection between smoking and bad skin, but smoking is just terrible for your skin. Remember not to get sunburned, sunburn isn’t much better for your skin than smoking, and can cause skin cancer at worst. You need to eat lots of good fresh fruits and vegetables, the fresher the better so that you get lots of good antioxidants, minerals and vitamins, all of which are good for your skin. And although it may seem strange to link exercise and skin it is important to do plenty of exercise. But even all that isn’t quite enough. There’s more you can do. You need to use the best skin care products you can find for 40 year old women. Now that doesn’t mean that there are special skincare products for 40 year old women, the best skin care products are the best skin care products for everyone, regardless of age. But if you start using great skin care products at 40 you’ve got a reasonable chance of stopping or even reversing some of the damage age has done to your skin. For example the gradual loss of collagen and elastin that you experience as you age is one of the biggest conditions that result in poor skin health, wrinkles, lines and sagging skin. Start at 40 and you’ve got a much better chance of reversing the damage caused by skin aging than you have much later in life. The earlier you start using the best skin care products the better they will work for you. So if you’re one of those women who are slowly passing forty and it’s you that is beginning to think about finding the top skin care products for 40 year old women, then that’s what you need to do. Start getting healthy and start using the worlds best skin care products. Do both these things together and you’ve got a recipe for great looking healthy skin right through into old age. Leave it till you’re seventy and you’ve got problems. Find out where to source the worlds best skin care products on my website. Want to find the Natural Skin Care Products and learn more about Top Skin Care Products For Sixty Year Old Women? Visit Peter’s Website Natural Health-Natural Skin Care. |
Are Paraben Free Anti Aging Moisturizers The Way To Go?
Friday, December 25th, 2009| Scentsy | Flameless Candles | Wickless Candles |
The market for paraben free anti aging products, paraben free skin care products and paraben free cosmetics is growing faster and faster. What exactly are parabens and why should you choose a paraben free anti aging moisturizer? Parabens are chemicals that are found in many of the personal products that so many of us use today. They are actually a range of chemicals rather than one particular chemical. They are used in these products as preservatives. They work well as preservatives and they are exceptionally cheap, there are more natural alternatives but these are much more expensive. But there is some concern raised about whether parabens used as preservatives in so many of our personal products can damage the health of the user. Some studies have linked parabens in our personal products to breast cancer. One study in particular took tissue samples of cancerous breast tissue and found parabens in 18 out of 20 samples tested. Of course this doesn’t prove that the parabens caused the cancer but is certainly worrying. It is also known that if you apply a product to your skin that contains parabens that the parabens will immediately penetrate the skin and can be found in your blood within hours. There’s no doubt that parabens enter our bodies. It is also known that parabens can mimic the actions of the female hormone estrogen. Again this is not conclusive proof that parabens are harmful to our health but is also something that raises issues that need to be investigated. You may have heard of the precautionary principle which says, in these situations, the presumption ought be made that the ingredient cannot be used until proven safe. However the current situation is that these ingredients continue to be used until they are proven to be unsafe. The precautionary principle argues otherwise. You can see good reasons why people search for such products as paraben free anti aging moisturizers and paraben free cosmetics. There are excellent paraben free alternatives which use natural preservatives which work well and which are not toxic. There is raging debate about the safety of parabens in our personal products and although it’s not entirely clear that parabens are dangerous it does seem questionable and to this reason many are choosing to go paraben free. However of course the choice is yours alone. There are small companies who have made the decision to avoid using parabens in all their products and to produce skin care and anti-aging products that are completely free of any chemicals known or suspected to cause health damage. In fact what I consider to be the worlds best anti aging moisturizers and skin care products are entirely paraben free. I seek to educate consumers on my website about some of the risks inherent in modern anti aging products and skin care products and also to alert them to the fact that there are excellent alternatives such as high quality paraben free anti aging products. visit my website to learn more. Visit Restore My Skin to find out more about the Best Antiaging Skin Products or more about the best Paraben Free Anti Aging Skin Products. |
What Are All Natural Anti Aging Products And Why Should You Use Them?
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009| Scentsy | Flameless Candles | Wickless Candles |
Are you searching for all natural anti aging products? If so you need to know exactly what “all natural” skin care products are, and are not, and how to tell the good from the bad. There is a huge market for natural anti aging products and this segment of the market is growing incredibly fast. There’s good reasons for this, particularly that so many consumers are starting to understand that many skin care products that are commonly used today are not particularly effective and can contain harmful ingredients. If, as a result of understanding this, you’re looking for a good range of all natural anti aging products such as natural anti aging creams then here’s a few things that you need to understand before you buy. The first is that “organic” or “natural” is not defined either generally or legally and any product that is advertised as an all natural anti aging product is not tested to see if the ingredients are natural or not. And because there is no definition it’s impossible to know anyway. Any skin care company can advertise its products as natural or organic regardless of what goes in them and this is quite legal. But that doesn’t mean that all anti aging products advertised as natural anti aging products are either unsafe, or that they don’t work, both for some that is true. What it really means is that you need to go beyond the advertising to find products which are safe and effective. Don’t just buy on the advertising. What you need do is to find out the corporate philosophy of the company that makes the products. A natural skin care company with a demonstrated commitment to product safety and product quality will produce high quality products that work effectively and which use safe ingredients whether or not they are marketed as “natural”. There are excellent anti aging products available right now that are safe and effective. One example is a small niche skin care company that told it’s development team, before developing their products, to ensure that their anti aging products were “safe enough to eat”. This is a demonstrated commitment to product safety and they have the same commitment to product quality. So if you’re looking to find all natural anti aging skin care products you need to understand a little more about what these words mean. The mere fact their products may be called by any name means that you ought to dig a little deeper than just reading the advertising. You need to understand the corporate philosophy of the company that makes the products and its commitment to product safety and quality before you commit to buying the products. Billions of dollars are made in the anti aging skin care industry every year and there are many companies that have little regard to the quality of the safety of the products they produce. However, like in all industries, there are also companies which commit to making high quality products because they know that these products will, over time, sell very well. There are certainly some companies which produce the highest quality anti aging skincare products however they are in the minority and you need to be very careful when selecting your products. I write a website where I seek to educate my readers about the risks of modern skin care products and to help them find ways to locate safe and effective alternatives. You can find out more on my website. Visit Restore My Skin for more about the best Antiaging Skin Products or more about the Best Natural Anti Aging Skincare. |
Looking For A Natural Skin Moisturizer?
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009| Scentsy | Flameless Candles | Wickless Candles |
There is a worldwide recognition amongst consumers that chemical products are on the way out and that natural products are preferable. This includes natural skin care products and so natural anti aging products are selling like hot cakes. Including skin care products with natural skin moisturizers. There really are natural skin moisturizers, quite a few of them actually, and if you could find them all and use them you could make quite a difference to your skin. But finding them won’t be easy, and you could well find that it’s cheaper to use a natural skin care product that includes these natural skin moisturizers. Chances are you’ve never heard of them but here’s a list of some natural skin moisturizers. 1. Shea butter. What is shea butter? It comes from the seed of the shea tree, and has many properties that are good for your skin, including natural moisturizing. It is high in vitamins A and E, both good for your skin, and also some essential fatty acids that are extremely good skin moisturizers. These ingredients are virtually identical to the moisturizers produced by your own skin in the sebaceous glands. And as well as moisturizing shea butter softens skin too, making you look younger. 2. Phytessence Wakame which is a seaweed found around the coast of Japan. It has been a big part of the Japanese diet for centuries and is the reason why Japanese women have the worlds best skin right into old age. Science now knows why Phytessence Wakame is so good for your skin, but the Japanese have known this for centuries. Phytessence Wakame is packed with all sorts of vitamins and minerals that are good for your skin and has natural moisturizing properties. 3. Sorbitol which you can get from plums and pears, grapes, berries, seaweed and algea and is a wonderful moisturizer. It helps stop the skin losing moisture and it also smooths the skin. 4. Capuacu oil from the nut of the capuacu tree. It regulates the activity of lipids on the surface of the skin, very important to protecting skin moisture. 5. Cynergy tk. Cynergy tk is derived from the wool of sheep. It is one of the best moisturizers that you can get for your skin. Along with a wide range of ingredients that have various benefits for your skin it is also very successful at helping the skin retain moisture. And it’s very important for the skin to retain it’s moisture levels, this is an important part of skin moisturizing. Theres 5 great natural skin moisturizers. And of course if you have a capuacu tree and a shea tree in the backyard, along with the berries and maybe a beach nearby with the right type of seaweed you could probably do wonders for your skin just by eating. Oh and a sheep. But of course that really isn’t practical, for most women it’s far better to buy the best natural skin care products you can get that contain all these ingredients, in one product. These products are proven to moisturize successfully and to have a visible effect on your skin within a relatively short time. That’s way easier and probably cheaper, and beats feeding sheep. Visit my website to find out where you source these products with natural skin moisturizers included. Want to know more about the best Natural Skin Care Products? And about Natural Skin Moisturizers? Visit Peter’s Website Natural Health-Natural Skin Care. |
Looking For The Best Facial Moisturizer? It Isn’t A Moisturizer.
Sunday, December 20th, 2009| Scentsy | Flameless Candles | Wickless Candles |
Yes that’s right the best facial moisturizer isn’t actually a moisturizer. But lets look first at what a moisturizer is and what it should do for your skin. A moisturizer is a product that is designed to improve the skins hydration, or in other words help the skin cells to retain their water content. If the skin dries out too much it becomes less supple and feels dry, and can be more prone to skin damage. As well as protecting itself better skin that is better moisturized just looks and feels good. And many different moisturizers help protect the skin in different ways, for example by including a sunscreen. But sadly there are moisturizers that can contain suspect and even dangerous ingredients. I believe that you should avoid using moisturizers which include mineral oil. Why? Because it isn’t good for your skin, and as it coats the skin with oil to prevent moisture loss it can cause skin problems, like acne flareups. But although it may sound like a contradiction I believe that you shouldn’t be using a moisturizer with sunscreen. If it’s so important to avoid sunburn surely a moisturizer with sunscreen is a great idea? No. Because you should be using your moisturizer 365 days a year. And many believe that sunscreens can cause cancer, so you don’t want to be putting a sunscreen on 365 days a year when it may be suspect and you don’t need it. So the ingredients in any moisturizer are one of the most important things you need to consider. For example there are some moisturizers that contain other ingredients that are considered to be dangerous, believe it or not. And there are some moisturizers that can also cause skin reactions and allergies because of the ingredients that they use. So if you choose the wrong facial moisturizer you can in fact do more damage than good to your skin. So now I’ve talked some about moisturizers and moisturizer ingredients, one of the most important things to consider. But which is the best facial moisturizer taking all this into account? I believe that the best facial moisturizer is a range of natural skin care products from a little niche skin care company that I bet you haven’t even heard of, here’s why. This small company makes a range of skin care products and anti aging products and they are targeted to overall skin health. Because moisturizing is only a small part of good skin care and skin health. They don’t actually make a moisturizer because their products moisturize better than any others, and do way more. They don’t use mineral oil or a sunscreen for the reasons I’ve already talked about and they add ingredients to their skin care products that moisturize extremely well. Jojoba Oil is an example of an ingredients that moisturizes extremely well and is non allergenic and works for all skin types. It is absorbed into the skin and helps protect the skin cells from moisture loss, and makes the skin more supple. These types of natural skin care ingredients are beneficial for every skin type, so there are no products for different skin types. And vitamin B5. This also has moisturizing properties but it also helps repair skin damage and adds some natural sun protection. And Sorbitol which is found in grapes and berries and seaweeds and others and can help the skin retain it’s moisture. It is from the seeds of the Capuacu tree. So hopefully you get the idea. The best moisturizer is in fact a range of skin care and skin health products that moisturize better than any others, but which also come as a complete skin care routine that leaves your skin healthier and looking and feeling better, and better moisturized. So there you have it. A range of natural skin care products are in fact the best facial moisturizer you can get. They promote optimum skin health, but along the way they moisturize extremely well because that is an important part of overall skin health. For all skin types. Visit my website to find out more about these natural skin care products. Want to know more about Natural Skin Care or the best facial moisturizer? Visit Peter’s Website Natural Health-Natural Skin Care. |
Petrolatum In Anti Wrinkle Creams May Be Damaging To Your Health
Friday, December 18th, 2009| Scentsy | Flameless Candles | Wickless Candles |
I’m sure you know that there are hundreds or thousands of anti aging products such as anti aging creams and anti aging moisturizers on the market. Most don’t work very well however there is a more serious worry about many anti aging creams. Lots of them contain chemical ingredients and these can be damaging to your health. A fine example is one petrochemical ingredient called petrolatum. You probably know about Vaseline. Vaseline is pure petrolatum, and you may also have heard of white petroleum, petroleum jelly, petroleum wax or white petrolatum. These are other names for petrolatum. It is a petrochemical product and this means that it comes from crude oil distillation. There is an organisation is called the Cosmetic Safety Database and their job is to track dangerous chemical ingredients in products such as cosmetics and anti aging products. They describe petrolatum as linked to cancer, product contamination and non-reproductive toxicity. The contamination risk is serious. During various manufacturing processes there can be contamination introduced with a range of chemicals called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons or PAHs. These are considered to be highly toxic and linked to cancer. There’s many companies making anti aging products such as anti wrinkle creams which do not test for the presence of PAHs in their products and do not list them on the label. If petrolatum and PAHs pose a risk to your health why are they used in products such as skin care products, anti aging moisturizers and anti wrinkle creams? There is one simple answer. Petrolatum is incredibly cheap. The cheaper the ingredients the more profit they make on the products. The FDA isn’t required to find out whether any of these ingredients are in the products and they don’t. The anti aging companies are able to get away with it so they do. There are excellent alternatives available. Natural ingredients that are known to be effective at improving skin health and which are also very safe but they are much more expensive and so are rarely used. Chemical ingredients are usually much cheaper. But it is possible to get excellent anti wrinkle creams and other anti aging products which do use these ingredients. These products are safe and highly effective and of course they are also much more expensive to make. They would be uncompetitive to buy because of the price except for one thing. They are not advertised. The small skin care companies that produce these products cannot advertise them for this reason and so they are not commonly known despite the fact that they are extremely high quality products. For this reason it’s unlikely that you’ve even heard of them. So there is excellent news. You can buy high quality anti aging products and if you look on the label of any of these products you won’t see petrolatum or any other chemical or petrochemical ingredients on the label. They are extremely effective, use much more expensive ingredients and deliver what is asked of them. If you’re interested to find out who makes safe and effective anti aging products like products like anti wrinkle creams and anti aging moisturizers then visit my website to find out. Visit Peter’s website Restore My Skin to find out more about effective Antiaging Skin Products or more about the best Anti Wrinkle Creams. |