Skin care products are big business. So there is a real need to be
able to recognize the bold exaggerations of cosmetics advertising.
Americans spend more than $1 billion a year on anti-wrinkle creams,
for example. And where there is this sort of money and profit we always
see a swarming of fakes and plain mediocre products. Their ads are
splashed in glossy magazines and on television commercials. Everywhere
we are told about the "best skin care products" -- available from the
advertiser.
You can recognize what is fake by looking at the ingredients.
But there is another thing we need to look out for. Some skin care
products use dangerous chemicals to get their smell and texture.
In the US almost anyone can make and sell skin care products. There
is little regulation and every incentive to used cheap ingredients to
maximize business profits.
This has lead to the situation where only 11 percent of the more
than 10,000 ingredients used by the cosmetic companies have been tested
to make sure they are safe. So just having a shower this morning,
washing your hair and using a luxurious body wash (from Walgreen's)
could easily have exposed you to almost 20 toxic chemicals. (Yes, I
said toxic. This is a fact.)
Skin care products don't need FDA approval, and a study by the
respected National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health found
nearly 900 toxic chemicals are regularly used by cosmetic manufacturers
in this country. European regulators recently banned 450 chemicals
found in personal care products over there. US regulators have not even
bothered to commission a long term study of chemicals in our skin care
products.
As a result, its easy to find examples of unsafe chemicals in common
skin products. Take the artificial (and inexpensive) colors Green 3
and Blue 1, and the pigments FD and C. They are used without a murmur
in spite of being known to be carcinogenic. (Yes, I said carcinogenic,
and even a simple Google search will confirm that this is a fact.)
I think you are getting my point by now. We have to be careful about
the skin care products we use because many of them would not pass a
decent safety test.
OK, what do we do about this? My suggestion is to do two things.
One, use products that have 100 percent natural ingredients.
And two, know what healthy safe ingredients have rapid and
long-lasting effects on our skin, and shop around for products that use
them.
Things like one of my favorite skin care ingredients, Cynergy TK.
Not only is it completely natural (no chemicals) but it contains an
interesting type of a protein called keratin.
Even cheap, junk skin care products often include traditional
keratin. Because if our own body's natural reserves of the keratin are
boosted then our dwindling reserves of collagen will also get a boost.
Since the protein collagen gave our skin its elasticity and firmness
when we were young, but began to break down and dissipate as we aged,
rejuvenating collagen in our skin tissues will turn back the aging
process. So keratin is a helpful ingredient in skin care products.
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