Monday, November 10, 2008

What's The Deal With Organic Skin Care?

Organic skin care is the newest buzz phrase to enter the skin care lexicon. If you care about what you put into or onto your body you need to pay attention. Organic means derived from natural ingredients, not made in a laboratory and not genetically modified from other resources.

Organic skin care products should be held to the same standards as our food, but they are not. Be a savvy consumer. Ask questions before you purchase any substance to put on your body. If you want to avoid synthetic chemicals circulating in your blood look for products with high concentrations of the best active, natural ingredients that the earth can offer.


So, what are these wonderful, natural active ingredients? Well, they don’t have long, bizarre names with numbers and letters included for one thing. Read labels, look ingredients up. This is the age of the Internet.

Natural, organic skin care products will have ingredients with names you recognize: vitamins and minerals along with plant derived oils and waxes. Sea kelp is one example, there are infinite possibilities. Avoid paraben and other preservatives used to extend the shelf life of many name brand cosmeceuticals. Synthetic waxes are also a no-no. Scientific tests have shown that the human body stores many of these toxic chemicals. An organic skin care routine will eliminate this particular environmental hazard.

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has created a safety report about hazardous materials in cosmetics and other products such as lotions, shampoos and the like. If you like to research and learn, this site allows you to search through brand name products and discover what poisons may be lurking in innocent sounding advertised products. A pure, preservative free skin care line, made by people who tell the truth about the contents, is what we all want and deserve. Look for organic skin care products with no laurel or lauryl sulfates that might cause allergic reactions. As a consumer, you are the decider.

If more consumers choose organic skin care over conventional chemical concoctions, we will all be safer as a result. Money talks. According to Packaged Facts: “Sales of beneficial beauty products exploded to reach $16 billion in 2007.” Support companies that promote long term skin health, not the use of extremely harmful chemical cocktails. You’ll radiate energy with firm, youthful skin. And the inner satisfaction of making an informed choice in spite of big bucks ad campaigns will increase your positive aura as well. Thoughtful consumers will choose organic skin
care products everytime.

By: David Michaels

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David Michaels is an avid researcher of skin care products and supplements made from all natural ingredients. For his recommendation please go to www.care-for-skin-and-body.com

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