What do you Know and Don't Know about skin care products!!
The skin is the first barrier between inside and outside world.
Dust, dirt, environmental agents and skin care ingredients enter
the body through this important protective organ providing
significant access to the blood stream. Usually, to protect
yourself from all the potentially dangerous factors and to keep
your good appearance, you are using skin care products. Their
purpose is to cleanse, nourish, regenerate and protect.
In today's market the modern cosmetic industry is given us skin
care products with splendid texture, appealing color, nice smell
and ... chemical ingredients.You know exactly which is the most
active ingredient or ingredients from a skin care formulation:
collagen, alpha hydroxyl acids, vitamin C-ester, testosterone
and so on. The advertising is based on the known effect of each
primer ingredient onto the skin such as: Collagen-anti wrinkles,
alpha hydroxy acid- peeling, et cetera.
What you don't know is how all the other chemical ingredients
from a skin care product, even in tiny amount, will affect your
health in time. Even a low dosage at repeated exposure will
affect your body as much as a high dosage will affect at one
time application.
You are not aware that the chemicals are not recognized by our
body and therefore they can not be used in our metabolic pathway
to be destroyed and eliminate. They are stored in fat tissues,
in the blood arteries and veins, and ultimately in organs. On
the other hand they can induce alterations at the cellular
level. Some of the chemical ingredients have been already proven
to induce cancer and birth defects.
A cosmetic company, developing natural skin care products (And
I am not talking of products that have one or two natural
ingredients in the list and they are claiming being natural) is
more difficult to establish. The reasons are multiple and I will
reveal them in a future article. In spite of the difficulties,
it is very rewarding for a company to offer his customers
healthy products with no long term side effects.
What you get is a complex of vitamins, minerals, phytohormons,
fatty acids, enzymes everything that the skin needs. It is
difficult to eliminate deep wrinkles, but you can diminish them
most of all prevent them! The way to do this is to let the skin
cells properly function by giving them everything they need, the
right amount of recognizable nutrients.
What you don't know about natural Cosmetics is the complexity
and difficulty to create a synergy of the active molecules to
get the maximum skin benefit. In order to get these results you
must have a deep understanding of the biochemical processes to
evaluate and predict how a natural mixture acts as an entirety.
This is a time consuming process and requires long term studies
and tests.
I think that in this particular time a returning to the ancient
herbs and oils knowledge with a complete understanding of a
modern science is one of the trends that we will have to promote
in the cosmetic business as well as in food technology.