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By Leah Day I'm sure you know by now that "natural skin care" is a hard thing to define. Simply put, natural skin care is choosing to take care of your skin with healthier, safer skin care products. The hard part comes in trying to figure out which products are better for your skin and which aren't. The best way to know if a certain product is good for your skin is to look at the ingredient label. I know it's a pain, but you can't trust a skin care product just because it says "natural" on the label. Cosmetics and skin care products are not regulated by the government, so words like "natural," "pure," and "herbal" do not guarantee anything. In fact, most products that advertise "all natural" are actually filled with harmful chemicals. So it's really advisable
to start reading ingredient labels and comparing products yourself.
Here's a basic guideline for reading ingredient labels and a basic list
of chemicals you want to look out for in the natural skin care products
you invest in. 1. First Ingredient - All ingredients are listed on the label from the highest concentration to the lowest concentration. This means that whatever the first ingredient is, that's what you're mainly buying and putting on your skin. Look out for products that use water as the first ingredient. Are you really spending your money wisely when you're mostly buying a bottle of water? Click here to learn more about why water based products are really a waste of money. 2. Check for
Harmful/Toxic Chemicals - Not all chemicals are bad. In fact, skin
care products must have some chemicals in order for the product to have
any shelf life. Would you like using products that have to be kept in
the refrigerator and then thrown out at the end of the week? The trick
is finding a skin care line that uses the least concentrations of chemicals
that have been proven dangerous to your skin or body. There are hundreds
of harmful chemicals out there, but this list of 11 harmful and/or toxic
chemicals that are the most commonly used in skin care products:
Do you want to know what makes these chemicals harmful or toxic, and their potential side effects? Click here for more information. 3. Compare and Contrast - Okay, so let's say you've found a skin care product and it contains two chemicals from this list, what do you do? Some people might shelve the product just because it contains the ingredients. It's good to be cautious about what's going on your body, but it can also be frustrating. The more chemicals you want to eliminate completely, the harder you will have to work to find natural skin care products that fit your guidelines. This is why you should always check for the concentration of the toxic chemical before shelving the product. Look at the label and see where the ingredient is located. Is it at the top and therefore included in a higher concentration? Or is the chemical at the very bottom of the list? The only chemical I would omit from this guideline is synthetic fragrance. Seeing "fragrance" on an ingredient label should always be a red flag. This term can be used to cover up thousands of different chemicals, most of them toxic. Even if it's the very last ingredient on the list, if you see "fragrance" on the list, go on and shelve that product straight away. It's certainly not natural skin care and has the potential to be very harmful to your skin and body.
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So
next time you're looking for natural skin care products make sure you
read the label first. If you're purchasing products online, see if you
can't try samples of the products first, before you invest in larger
sizes. This will help rule out any allergy or sensitivity you may have
to the product, as well as let you know if you like the smell. What's
the point of buying natural skin care products if you can't stand the
smell?!