How and Why Should We Use Natural Skin Care Products

How and Why Should We Use Natural Skin Care Products

Introduction

The human skin is the largest organ of the human body. It not only has quite a complex structure, but also performs several life sustaining functions.

We can live without a Spleen, Gall Bladder, or an Appendix, and we can survive with only one Kidney or one Lung, but we cannot survive without our skin. As a result it is of the utmost importance that we take care of our skin.

Using natural skin care products is a good first step in providing the skin with the right nutrients and building materials to retain its health and functionality.

What Does Our Skin Actually Do for Us?

Our skin has many functions, most of which we are unaware of until something goes wrong. They include:

Regulation of body temperature;

Protection against the elements;

Sensation;

Excretion;

Immunity;

Blood storage and

Synthesis of Vitamin D.

 

If you want to read about these functions in more detail you can have a look at this article: “Anatomy & Physiology of the Skin”.

In summary, these functions provide us with awareness of our surrounding climatic environment, protect us against some of the bacteria and other potentially harmful bugs in our surroundings, allow us to experience touch and feel, eliminate toxins from our body, store blood, and provide the means for our body to obtain vitamin D while protecting our body from the sun’s UV-rays.

Considering these vital functions our skin has to perform, it is no surprise that we need to look after our skin and make sure it is given every opportunity to function properly and remain healthy.

Why You Should Choose Natural Skin Care Products?

With all the media and news reports warning consumers of the potentially toxic ingredients in many of the commercially available skin care products sold in supermarkets and department stores, this is an easy question to answer.

Firstly, many of the commonly used skin care products contain artificial and/or synthetic ingredients that the body has difficulties in eliminating, and as a result it tends to store these chemicals in its tissues. Research has shown that the accumulation of many of these substances can have serious health effects.

If you are interested in learning more about some of the toxic chemicals used in skin care products, please read the article “Potentially Toxic Ingredients In Skin Care Products”. It will provide you with much information and research references for you to be able to identify what is in your skin care products and what should not be there.

Holistically natural skin care products do not contain artificial or synthetic ingredients. They should also not contain isolated, concentrated, natural substances, such as parabens (pseudo-natural preservative) and the like, that have been shown to be potentially hazardous.

How To Choose Natural Skin Care Products That are Safe and Effective?

This is where it starts to get really difficult. You see, many so called natural or organic skin care products are in reality nothing of the kind. Adding a miniscule amount of aloe vera to water does not constitute a holistically natural skin care product. It may be ‘natural’ or even ‘organic’, but it will not be effective and therefore is a waste of your money.

To have an effective aloe vera product for example, it requires at least 10% of the overall content to be aloe vera. Or, the aloe vera needs to be combined with several other active, natural ingredients that are combined to achieve a specific result.

The term ‘Organic’ is another area where consumers are being misled. Adding a single ‘organic’ ingredient and then calling the products ‘organic’, is quite simply wrong. You see the commercials on television and magazines every day… “xyz product contains organic this and organic that”… but no mention is made of the other ingredients that are contained in these products, many of which have been shown to be hazardous to our health.

There is yet another problem with natural skin care products, that is an area of confusion and potentially misleading. Just ask yourself what exactly is “natural”? What is actually meant by the term “natural”?

The word ‘natural’ congers up images of nature – pristine environments that make us feel good. A safe, natural environment that is conducive to health and a sense of wellbeing. Spring water, waterfalls, pristine lakes, a healthy salads, Rainforests, etc., are all images that we perceive as ‘natural’, or in other words ‘good for us’.

The cosmetic industry has ceased on this and is using the word natural to instil in their advertisements a sense of wellbeing and the idea that this product is good for us. Unfortunately, one or two natural ingredients does not a natural skin care product make… Far from it, natural skin care products should not contain any ingredients that are not naturally sourced. This brings us to another problem with natural skin care products.

A naturally sourced ingredient, such as the various forms of paraben, may still be potentially hazardous. Just think about it – would you put arsenic or lead on your skin? No of course you wouldn’t. But, they are natural, so what’s the problem? Natural substances too can also be deadly poisons.

Applying this to skin care products, you might be looking for a product that is natural and contains AHAs (alpha hydroxy acids), which we know help to remove dead skin cell layers which in turn helps to remove fine lines and wrinkles, revealing new vibrant skin.

Now, you could buy a product that lists as one of its ingredients AHAs, it might even contain AHA in its name, or you could buy a product that contains a concentrate called papain, which is a natural substance from the Papaya fruit. So, yes papain is natural and yes this product could, depending on other ingredients, be called a natural skin care product. However, papain is a concentrate and as such many people have experienced side effects because the papain is present in too high a concentration for some people.

A truly, holistically natural skin care product would not contain papain as an extract. Rather it would contain Papaya fruit itself. You see, the whole fruit still contains papain, however, it also contains other ingredients in the papaya that modify the excessively strong effect of the papain. Choosing such a product will, at least to a large extent, reduce any potential side effects from the papain, because the product is naturally balanced and contains naturally balanced ingredients that will benefit your skin rather than burn it.

The results of removing fine lines and wrinkles may take a little longer, but are overall better and you reduce the chance of ‘burning’ your skin with a concentrated AHA. Remember AHA stands for alpha hydroxy acid and we all know acids burn our skin.

How To Use Natural Skin Care Products?

Following directions

This is actually a lot more important than most people think. Directions for use are a communication by the manufacturer of a product to their consumers about how to use and get the best results from a particular product.

It has been our experience, that most people who purchase our natural skin care products do not read the directions and use our products the same way that they have been using their previous brand. This however, may or may not be the correct way to use our products.

Properly formulated products contain ingredients in sufficiently high quantities to achieve a desired effect if used in accordance with the product’s directions. Using more does not mean better or quicker results, rather using too much can have adverse effects or no more effect than the lesser quantity.

Conversely, if for example, the product’s directions suggest that it be used 2 or 3 times a day using it merely once is not likely to produce the desired effect in most cases.

This is obvious when we think about taking medicine. We read the directions and take the drugs, herbs, or what ever, as prescribed and hopefully we get the desired result.

So why is it that we do this when it comes to taking medicine, but ignore it (for the most part) when it comes to using skin care products or other personal care products?

Reading the instructions carefully and following them ensures that a) you are not wasting your money, and b) you should get the desired results.

 

Good and Bad Reactions from Using Skin or Personal Care Products

There are several possible reactions you may experience. There are good reactions and negative reactions.

Let’s look at good reactions to begin with.

Good Skin Reactions to New Products

Herbs, essential oils and most of the other ingredients that you’ll find in our range of products have a medicinal actions and are included for a specific purpose, that is, the formulations that make up our various products were originally designed to treat particular skin health issues. This intent, though we do not actively promote this, continues to this day.

As you probably know, there are three basic skin types; Normal, Oily and Dry. In addition, your skin may also be sensitive, prone to allergic reactions or under the influence of hormonal changes that are taking place in your body. The herbs and essential oils in our products are specifically chosen to normalise the skin given one of the skin types. The herbs and essential oils will have a therapeutic effect on the skin’s structure and function in order to provide an environment under which your skin will start to function normally again.

Similarly this is relevant for sensitive skin that tends to react inappropriately to different stimuli. It is possible, for example, that an individual with sensitive skin who is using our products for the first time, will experience a reaction which they may see as being a negative reaction.

This however, may well be totally the opposite to what is actually taking place. You see, in order for your skin’s health to improve, it has to change. This change may appear at first as a worsening of a particular skin issue and this will understandably be interpreted as a negative.

Under normal circumstances however, this type of reaction, if the products are continued with, will only last for a few days and following this time the skin will improve and end up much healthier. This process is sometimes referred to as ‘A healing crisis’, and is actually a good thing to happen.

It signifies that the ingredients are doing what they are supposed to, that is they are repairing and normalising the skin’s functions.

This is a normal and in fact good reaction.

Bad Skin Reactions to New Products

Obviousely there are times when a new product may actually cause a bad skin reaction. Unfortunately a bad reaction often appears very similarly to a good reaction. So how can you tell the difference and what should you do?

The first thing to do when ever you purchase a new skin or personal care product is to test it to see if you have any adverse reactions to this product. Below is a detailed outline and links that will provide you with all the information you need to test a new product in order to determine whether or not your skin is going to react adversely to it or not.

Test the Products to Avoid Allergic Reactions

Another important aspect to using any skin care, personal care or cosmetic products, whether they are natural or otherwise, is to test the products first in order to see if you are allergic to any of the ingredients.

To do this, follow the steps described in our article “The Skin Patch Test”, which will provide you with a simple, yet effective step-by-step test that you can easily do at home over a 24 hour period, to reasonably ensure that you will not experience major adverse reactions to the ingredients in products you want to use on your face, or anywhere else on your body. This test is simple and very effective.

Finally, before you purchase a product, look at the ingredients list and see if the ingredients are easily recognisable. As a rule of Thumb, if the ingredients are easily recognisable it is more likely that the ingredients are of a natural source and have not been excessively modified. If on the other hand you need a chemistry degree to understand what the ingredient is, it is likely not to be a holistically-natural ingredient. It may still be a natural ingredient, but it is likely that it has been isolated and is used in a concentrated, possibly even synthetic form.

For the most part, most ‘natural skin care products’ widely available in the market place are far from natural or that matter organic. Most have minimal quantities of some natural ingredient in an otherwise non-natural product and are referring to the one natural ingredient in the product, rather than the nature of the product itself.

Hopefully this article will clarify some of the confusion that exists about what is a natural skin care product and what is not, help you to choose natural skin care products that will actually live up to your expectations, and clarify why using natural skin care products is a healthier choice.

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An Anti aging skin care system plays the most important role if a person in the middle ages wants to appear young again. The correct art and science of choosing the best Anti Aging skin care system is what shall give you the desired young skin that you are looking for.

Skin aging shows its signs in the appearance of wrinkles, saggy skin, age spots, skin dryness, dark circles and dark uneven complexion on the skin. If you want to be free of all these signs of skin aging, then a scientifically proven effective anti aging skin care system is all you need.

In order to choose the best anti aging skin care system, of which anti aging skin creams form a vital part, you need to research the market and scrutinize the ingredients that are being used in the various anti aging skin care products. After this analysis, you shall be in a much better position to know which products work effectively and which ones are useless hyped up anti aging skin care products.

Let us look at the list of harmful chemicals and ingredients that are found in many anti aging skin care systems which claim to be the best. You might be shocked to know what type of harmful stuff is used in manufacturing such anti aging skin creams.

1) Parabens – These are a class of preservatives added in anti aging skin care products to improve their shelf life. It means fatter profits for the manufacturers, but for the consumers it means the risk of cancer. Parabens have been classified as known “Carcinogens” – meaning that they are a cancer causing agent.

2) Alcohols – Alchohols used in anti aging skin care products are known to cause dry and sensitive skin and are very harmful for the skin health in the long term. Some of the harmful types of alcohols used in anti aging skin creams are: ethanol, ethyl alcohol, methanol, benzyl alcohol, isopropyl alcohol and SD alcohol.

3) Fragrances – Fragrances are added into anti aging skin care products so that they smell nice when applied. But the cost that we pay in terms of our skin health is too big. Very harmful chemicals are used to produce these fragrances. You might find fragrances in different forms in anti aging skin creams. There are more than 4000 types of fragrances classified as carcinogens or toxic substances.

These fragrances are known to cause depression, hyperactivity, mood fluctuations, irritability and adversely affect the central nervous system. Besides that, we must be very vigilant with what kind of anti aging skin care product that we use because these topical applications are literally “eaten” by our skin.

This way all these harmful chemicals in anti aging skin creams find their way to our bloodstream and skin tissues. It would be better to use a body perfume or natural spray to smell nice instead of such harmful chemicals.

There are many more harmful substances being used in anti aging skin care products that should be avoided at all cost. You can see an exhaustive list at my website.

Let us look at the essential qualities that an ideal and effective anti aging skin care product should have. Firstly, it should have natural ingredients that are clinically proven to enhance the production of two vital skin proteins in our body – Collagen and Elastin.

These are the two essential proteins in our skin that are the givers of youth. They are responsible for giving us a firm, supple, pliant and elastic skin.

The anti aging skin care system that I personally use, has a latest, cutting edge natural substance called Cynergy TK. It is being used by elite and niche skincare companies and is not yet available to the big brand names.

It has been pioneered in New Zealand. Clinical studies on Cynergy TK on human volunteers showed that it worked amazingly well in enhancing the collagen and elastin production in the body naturally. It also sustainably improved the skin moisture retention and skin elasticity.

You can visit my website for an in depth look at the best scientifically proven natural substances which work effectively as a part of the best Anti aging skin care systems.

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Skin aging shows its symptoms in the appearance of wrinkles, saggy skin, age spots, skin dryness, dark circles and dark inconsistent color on the skin. If you desire to be free of all these signals of skin aging, then a clinically established effective anti aging skin care system is all that you need.

In order to select the most effective anti aging skin care system, of which anti aging skin creams form a key part, you need to explore the skin care bazaar and inspect the ingredients that are being used in the miscellaneous anti aging skin care products. After this analysis, you shall be in a very much improved situation to make out which products work properly and which ones are ineffectual hyped up anti aging skin care products.

Let us look at the list of harmful chemicals and ingredients that are found in numerous anti aging skin care systems which claim to be the most beneficial. You might be shocked to know what type of life threatening material is utilized in manufacturing such anti aging skin creams.

1) Parabens – These are a grade of preservatives added in anti aging skin care products to better their shelf life. It means fatter earnings for the makers, but for the end users it entails the risk of cancer. Parabens have been grouped as known “Carcinogens” – meaning that they are a cancer inducing agent.

2) Alcohols – Alchohols used in anti aging skin care products are known to cause dry and sensitive skin and are very detrimental for the skin health in the long-term. Some of the counterproductive variety of alcohols used in anti aging skin creams are: ethanol, ethyl alcohol, methanol, benzyl alcohol, isopropyl alcohol and SD alcohol.

3) Fragrances – Fragrances are put into into anti aging skin care products so that they smell nice when used. But the cost that we pay up in terms of our skin health is too big. Very damaging chemicals are utilized to create these fragrances. You might find fragrances in various forms in anti aging skin creams. There are more than 4000 kinds of fragrances classified as carcinogens or toxic ingredients.

These scents are known to cause depressive disorder, hyperactivity, temper fluctuations, petulance and badly affect the central nervous system. Likewise, we must be very alert with what type of anti aging skin care product that we employ because these topical creams are literally “eaten” by our skin.

This way all these detrimental chemicals in anti aging skin creams get their way to our bloodstream and skin tissues. It would be better to use a body scent or natural spray to feel nice instead of such counterproductive chemicals.

There are numerous more harmful substances being used in anti aging skin care products that should be avoided as much as possible at all cost. You can see an exhaustive list at my website.

Let us look at the important characteristics that an ideal and complete anti aging skin care product should have. First Of All, it should have organic substances that are scientifically proved to enhance the production of two primary skin proteins in our body – Collagen and Elastin.

These are the two crucial proteins in our skin that are the bestower of juvenility. They are responsible for giving us a firm, elegant, elastic and elastic skin.

The anti aging skin care system that I personally apply, has a latest, cutting edge herbal content called Cynergy TK. It is being used by elite and niche skin care companies and is not yet accessible to the big brand names.

It has been pioneered and developed in New Zealand. Clinical studies on Cynergy TK on human volunteers established that it worked astonishingly well in helping the collagen and elastin production in the body naturally. It also sustainably improved the skin moisture retention and elasticity.

You can visit my web site for an in depth look at the most beneficial scientifically verified organic ingredients which work effectively as a constituent of the best Anti aging skin care systems.

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Facial Moisturizer for dry aging skin is what you genuinely need if you are troubled from symptoms of premature skin aging like wrinkles, sagging skin, old age spots and an inconsistent skin texture. It can be the supreme skincare alternative for your treasured and most valued possession – your skin.

We can get a lot of facial moisturizer for dry aging skin in the market. They are so popular due to the reason that we all desire to look young and appealing – irrespective of our age or sex. And the result offered by facial moisturizer for dry aging skin is incomparable by any other product in the anti aging skincare category.

When you use facial moisturizer for dry aging skin as a part of your skincare treatment there are two things that you must pay most attention to –
1) You should discover a premium facial moisturizer for dry aging skin with established and scientifically proven ingredients.
2) You must use it systematically for the sought-after effects in skin health and transformation.

Finding an effective and high quality facial moisturizer for dry aging skin is the first important task. It is no mean task. You must take a good look at whether there are scientifically tested organic ingredients employed in them and also make a point that they do not hold artificial chemicals.

Once you have found an excellent facial moisturizer for dry aging skin, the consistent applying part is not actually that challenging. The improvements in your aging skin rejuvenation give you the continuous motivation and drive to continue the skincare therapy till you accomplish the smooth and youthful looking skin.

Even Though it will not be feasible to mention here all the powerful herbal substances that you should try to look for and the hazardous chemical substances that you should avoid in an ideal facial moisturizer for dry aging skin, I will bring up some of them.

A lot of these hazardous chemicals are abused (in various names) in below standard facial moisturizer for dry aging skin. You must avoid these at any cost -

1) Mineral Oils – They are abused as moisturizers. They are in use in facial moisturizer for dry aging skin because of the fact that they are low-priced. But their cost on skin health is great. They clog up and suffocate the skin’s pores. This obstructs their function of removing the toxins and leads to acne breakouts, allergies and a lot of other skin disorders.

2) Parabens – They are being used as preservatives and assist in improving the shelf life of facial moisturizers for dry aging skin. These are known to cause cancer.

3) Fragrances – These are used so that the facial moisturizer for dry aging skin smell pleasant. These fragrances are created from artificial chemicals which can cause big disruptions in the working of the endocrinal system.

These are the herbal substances that your should try to look for in the most effective facial moisturizer for dry aging skin -

1) Cynergy TK – This is a wonderful natural ingredient that has been discovered in New Zealand. It is lush in functional keratin. This form of keratin is most easily absorbable by the body. Keratin is one of the most critical skin proteins which works in sync with collagen and elastin to keep our skin young.

Cynergy TK is also most impressive and unique in the fact that it assists the body in its natural production of collagen and elastin. These are the essential skin proteins that play a vital role in keeping our skin healthy, supple and resilient. Cynergy TK also has indicated to significantly improve skin moisture retentivity and skin elasticity.

Presently Cynergy TK is available only in niche skin care facial moisturizer for dry aging skin, and not in the well known brand names.

2) Phytessence Wakame – This is an extract of a unique type of Japanese sea weed. It is one of the best kept skin care anti aging secrets of Japan. It works effectively in soothing skin inflammation, which is one of the leading reason of untimely skin aging. It also helps protect the skin from the harmful consequences of UV rays and helps in preserving the balance of hyaluronic acid in the skin. This acid works together with collagen and elastin in the skin and helps in keeping the skin young and glowing.

Visit my web site for learning to a greater extent on such natural anti aging skincare substances that work wonderfully as a part of facial moisturizer for dry aging skin and work in natural aging skin rejuvenation.

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