What Do You Know And Dont 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 hydroxyl 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

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