All Natural Skin Care. What Does It Mean And Why Should You Care?

By Peter Albertonach

As we age our skin ages with us and gradually we all begin to notice this and our thoughts turn to skin care. I would like to examine the problems inherent in modern anti aging products and find out why you need to know more about all natural skin care products.

Anti aging products are meant to be good. They are meant to tackle the skin problems that we all notice with aging such as the fine lines, wrinkles, the skin sagging, the age spots and much more. Anti aging products are meant to be a positive for us not a negative.

But unfortunately for many people the use of anti aging products is not a positive but a negative. There are many people who suffer negative health and skin reactions to the use of anti aging products, including skin problems like eczema and allergies. I research these types of problems because I saw it happen to a member of my own family.

And the reason for this is simple, and it does not apply to all natural skin care products.

This is the reason. The big name brands of anti aging products that you see on the shelves every day contain many chemical ingredients, including petrochemicals, which are known to cause cancer as well as various forms of skin irritation and have other health implications.

This morning I was reading a study from the Journal of Investigative Dermatology which found that the risk of skin cancer in mice was increased by 69 percent when moisturisers containing sodium lauryl sulphate and mineral oil were applied to the skin of mice 5 times a day for 17 weeks. And the study also concluded, after testing, that when a moisturiser was used under the same conditions, where it did not contain mineral oil and sodium lauryl sulphate, there was no increased risk of skin cancer to the mice.

There are hundreds of studies, perhaps thousands of studies which have concluded that these chemical ingredients that are so common in modern anti aging products can cause health problems and skin problems. Some of these chemicals include parabens, fragrances, petroleum products, sodium lauryl sulphate and much more.

There are a wide range of well-known natural ingredients which are firmly established to be very beneficial to the health of your skin and which are perfectly safe to use in anti aging products such as all natural anti aging products. These ingredients are known to be safe and in many cases have been eaten by generations of people without negative health implications.

Of course these natural ingredients are available to all skin care companies to use but there is massive amounts of money at stake in the skin care industry and the big companies compete ferociously on price. The natural alternatives, whilst being safe and effective, are expensive whilst ingredients like mineral oil and sodium lauryl sulphate are very cheap. Therefore by using these ingredients skin care companies can compete on price while still allowing enough budget for television advertising.

But this opens an opportunity for some small niche skin care companies to take advantage of this by producing all natural skin care products that do use these ingredients and which can therefore produce high-quality products using safe ingredients that are very effective and which do not subject the user to health or skin problems.

If you choose wisely you really can find excellent natural skin care products that are extremely effective for all skin types and which will not create problems with allergies or skin irritation.

Notice that I said "if you choose wisely". You will find all natural skin care products which are called that on the label but which contain many of the chemical ingredients found in so many others. Because the government does not regulate either what is put into skin care products or what is claimed on the label anything goes.

If you choose the best all natural skin care products you'll find that they are very effective. The very best ones need to be effective because they come with a full 100 percent money back guarantee. Try getting that from the big brand names.

So if you're becoming concerned about the problems with mainstream anti aging skin care products and you can be confident in the knowledge that, if you choose wisely, you can find excellent all natural skin care products that really do produce optimum skin health without the chemical risks.

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