Worldwide there is a groundswell of women looking to find more natural skin care products. Millions of women are now searching out the best all natural skin care products, and for good reason.
Gradually consumers are realizing that our skin care products and cosmetics as well as many other personal products can contain harmful ingredients.
For example lead was found in over 50% of big brand lipsticks tested in a recent study.
And whilst its good to look better or have better skin or use a nice smelling soap or deodorant or other personal product its not as important as guarding your health. After all, who wants lead in their system?
And big name manufacturers are now recognizing this and trying to get a foothold in the natural products market.
Its no coincidence that LOreal has recently bought The Body Shop, a huge seller of all natural personal products.
Now lets consider skin care. Firstly, what does "all natural" mean when applied to skin care? Well there is no definition of natural for either cosmetics or skin care or other products.
Natural means what you want it to mean, and so there are companies making products as "natural" that contain chemical ingredients that most would not consider to be natural at all.
So if there is no formal definition of all natural what do we do? Well lets consider why were looking for the best all natural skin care products in the first place.
If you're looking for a "natural" product it's pretty sure you're looking for a product what works well and is SAFE.
And as we now know that you want safe products we can use this information to help.
So, how do we find these products? Lets look at how we determine if a product should be safe. There is a website called the cosmetic safety database. It considers the health risks inherent in a wide range of cosmetics and skin care products and more. It rates the potential health risks of various ingredients in these products.
So you can use this information to search the ingredients of personal products to see if it is considered that they pose any health risk. As an example you could search "parabens" (a popular and cheap preservative often used in personal products) and see what you get.
The find the website for the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics. The have a compact that any company can sign. This pledges that company to using only known safe ingredients in their products. And you can search this compact to see which companies have signed it, and which haven't. You won't find the big names there.
And if the company that makes the products you use has signed you know they should make safe products.
So you've found a natural skincare company that has signed. So their products should be safe. But are they any good? Well as far as I'm concerned the company that offers a money back guarantee should have great products. Most don't.
And once you've done your search you'll find that one company has signed the compact AND offers a full money back guarantee, and it's that company that makes the best all natural skin care products.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
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