Trouble Finding The Best All Natural Skin Care Products?

Worldwide there is a groundswell of women looking to find more natural skin care products. Millions of women are now searching out the best all natural skin care products, and for good reason.

Gradually consumers are realizing that our skin care products and cosmetics as well as many other personal products can contain harmful ingredients.

A quick example, a recent study found lead in over 50% of big brand lipsticks tested.

And it's fine to be wanting to look better or smell better, but doing that at the risk of our health isn't smart. Who wants lead on their lips?

And big name manufacturers are now recognizing this and trying to get a foothold in the natural products market.

Recently L'Oreal has purchased The Body Shop to get a toehold in the natural personal products market.

Now lets consider skin care. Firstly, what does "all natural" mean when applied to skin care? Well there is no definition of natural for either cosmetics or skin care or other products.

All natural is a general term. It can mean what you want it to mean and so one all natural skin care line may well have ingredients in it that are suspect to some people.

So what do we do if we're looking for the best all natural skin care products and there are some out there which can still contain potentially nasty ingredients?

If you're looking for a "natural" product it's pretty sure you're looking for a product what works well and is SAFE.

So once we recognize this we can use this information to find what we want.

So, how do we find these products? Lets look at how we determine if a product should be safe. There is a website called the cosmetic safety database. It considers the health risks inherent in a wide range of cosmetics and skin care products and more. It rates the potential health risks of various ingredients in these products.

So you can look at any product and search the ingredients to see if they are considered unsafe to health. You could search "parabens" for example, (a popular chemical preservative) and see what risks parabens pose.

The find the website for the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics. The have a compact that any company can sign. This pledges that company to using only known safe ingredients in their products. And you can search this compact to see which companies have signed it, and which haven't. You won't find the big names there.

And if a company has signed that compact it should make safe skin care products. You can search this compact for any company name to see if they have signed.

So that covers safety. How do you know if the company that makes those all natural skin care products actually makes good skin care products? Well the best way I know is to find a company that gives you a money back guarantee on their products. Even amongst the good natural skin care companies getting a money back guarantee is rare.

One company has both signed the compact and offer a full money back guarantee. And it's that company that makes the best all natural skin care products.

Head over to my website to find out which company.

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Functional Keratin And Skin Care Explained.

If you are interested in researching a little about skin care and skin health it wont be long before you start to read about the role of keratin in maintaining your skins health. But what is keratin?

Keratin is found right throughout our bodies. It is a protein that is extremely strong and it can be found in the hard areas of our bodies like our nails and also in the softer areas of our bodies, like skin. A lot of keratin is found in our nails, teeth, hair and skin.

In our skin keratin is produced by keratinocytes, a type of skin cell in the epidermis, and this keratin has a role in keeping our skin in good health. As keratin cells come to the surface they die, and form a protective layer on the surface. And these dead cells are shed all the time as dead skin cells.

There are some important roles that keratin performs in our skin, including providing some skin waterproofing. But in particular it provides skin elasticity and skin strength.

Both these are important for optimal skin health, and as our skin ages it starts to lose some of its ability to maintain its strength and elasticity and this is due in part to a reduction in keratin.

So you would assume that it's good to use skin care products that contain keratin, but that's wrong.

You see the keratin that is used in mainstream skin care products is extracted from the horns and hooves of animals and is extracted using acid and heat. This results in the keratin being denaturalized by a process called hydrolization. Denaturalized simply means that its no longer of use to your skin because its form has been changed.

So if that's keratin what does functional keratin mean? Functional keratin is keratin that is not changed or denaturalized by the process of extracting it, and is still of use to the skin. It is produced without heat or acid from the wool of sheep.

One very small company has only very recently perfected this process and has patented it, and puts the functional keratin into a product called Cynergy TK that is used only in the very best skin care products available.

Studies on the effectiveness of products containing Cynergy TK have shown visible improvements in fine lines and wrinkles on the skin and an improvement in skin complexion.

Cynergy TK is expensive, and so the big brand name skin care products don't use it. But it is possible to get skin care products that contain Cynergy TK, and they aren't more expensive than other skin care products. Why? Because the big brands spend their budget on advertising, whereas the small niche company spends it's budget on product quality.

You'll find that the big brand mainstream anti aging products are priced to factor in all that advertising.

So theres some background on the role of keratin in the skin. And about what functional keratin is if you were wondering.

I write more about Cynergy TK on my website.

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Looking For The Best Moisturizer? 4 Steps To Well Moisturized Skin.

Does that confuse you? Surly if you want great looking well moisturized skin you need to find the best moisturizer? No, and here's why, and also here's 4 steps to great looking skin that is also well moisturized skin.

There's one way to have well moisturized great looking skin that doesn't sag or feel dry, looks great, has few wrinkles and makes you feel great. It's to have healthy skin. If your skin isn't healthy skin no amount of using the best face moisturizer there is will make it like that.

I'll say it again. The key to well moisturized skin is to have healthy skin. Because healthy skin is, almost by definition, well moisturized skin. If it isn't it isn't healthy. Makes sense.

So why are you out there looking for the best moisturizer? Why aren't you trying to make your skin healthy and why aren't you using skincare products targeted to overall skin health rather than just moisturising?

So there's other things you can do to make your skin healthy other than using great skin care products?

Well there's some simple stuff. Simple but not necessarily easily. There 4 things you need to do to have great looking healthy and well moisturized skin.

1. Eat a good diet. Plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables every day. Eating a good healthy diet is exactly what you should do to get healthy overall, and healthy overall is the way to great looking healthy skin and well moisturized skin.

2. It's equally important to exercise. If you exercise it makes your blood circulation better, and better circulation is important for your skin.

3. Those are 2 things you must do, here's 2 things never to do. Don't smoke or get sunburned. Both of these do terrible damage to your skin and both of them cause more damage than great moisturizing can ever repair.

4. What's the last thing you need to do to have great skin? Use the best natural skin care products available. There are some excellent natural skin care products that are specifically targeted to improving skin health, and along the way they moisturize better than the best rated moisturizer. There's no point in just moisturizing, tackle overall skin health and skin moisture retention will do with it.

Yes the skin care products that moisturize better than any others aren't in fact a moisturizer at all. They are products that include natural moisturizers that are better than the ingredients in the big brand name moisturizers, but they aren't moisturizers. And so if you search the best moisturizers you won't even find them.

So the best facial moisturizer isn't really a moisturizer at all. And remember, there's way more you can do to improve your skin than just using the best moisturizer.

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Looking For The Best Dry Skin Lotion? Here’s 3 Essential Ingredients It Must Have

I have already talked about dry skin and the causes of dry skin, and I've offered some suggestions of some easy things you can do to combat dry skin like changing your soap and shampoo.

And I have also mentioned that many big brand name anti aging skin care products can actually be harmful to your skin and can dry your skin.

And I recommended that you find and use the best quality natural skin care products, like the best dry skin lotion you can get.

In fact rather than searching for the best dry skin lotion or dry skin cream, I am suggesting that you use a product that is not directly targeted to dry skin treatment at all, but direct you to finding a product that will overcome your dry skin by improving your overall skin health.

Lets see why the worlds best natural skin care products could in fact be the very best dry skin cream for you.

The first essential factor in looking at any skin care regime is that the products do not harm your skin. That's essential. And sadly you can't take that for granted, because many big name skin care products do harm your skin.

And you absolutely must know what ingredients are in the products, because many of the big brands use chemical ingredients that are cheap, but poor quality. But there are excellent naturally occurring ingredients that work extremely well to promote overall skin health, but are expensive. Some have been used by women for centuries for their skin care properties.

Here's 3 ingredients that make one product in particular the worlds best natural skin care product and best dry skin lotion all at the same time.

1. Phytessence Wakame. What is Phytessence Wakame? It is a Japanese seaweed prized by Japanese women for centuries for the beneficial effects on the skin. It is eaten regularly in the Japanese diet.

Phytessence Wakame is full of all sorts of essential vitamins and minerals and other ingredients that are good for the skin. And as well as being generally good for healthy skin it is essential to help dry skin problems. It helps heal dry skin as well as skin inflammation and skin irritation. And if you suffer from dry skin you'll know all about these.

2. Cynergy TK. Cynergy TK is relatively newly discovered and is fully patented, and is found in only the very best skin care products in the world. It is a type of keratin that is found in your skin right now and Cynergy TK comes from the wool of sheep. It's technical and boring but suffice to say that any woman who has dry skin must be using a skin care product containing Cynergy TK.

What in effect it does is to form a thin layer of protection over your skin to help the skin retain moisture rather than lose it and it helps the skin balance it's own moisture content, both very important for great skin health and skin hydration.

3. Nano-Lipobelle H-EQ10. Nano-Lipobelle H-EQ10 is a variant on Coenzyme Q10, and a much more effective and refined version. Coenzyme Q10 is found in the cells of our bodies and diminishes with age, so we need to replace it, or our skin health declines. Now of course you've probably seen Coenzyme Q10 in many skin care products, the problem is that the form of Coenzyme Q10 used in these products doesn't actively penetrate the skin, so does little.

But Nano-Lipobelle H-EQ10 is a more modern form of Coenzyme Q10 that is able to penetrate the skin because it has extremely small molecules, and so replenishes out stores of Coenzyme Q10. It has a dramatic effect on reducing skin sagging and wrinkling and contains about 10% vitamin E, also very important for our skin health.

And as well as that it nourishes the skin and increases it's store of collagen and elastin. And this increases skin health, and also helps maintain skin moisture balance. This all of course helps combat dry skin.

Nano-Lipobelle H-EQ10 is extremely expensive.

There's the 3 most important ingredients in the world best natural skin care products which are also, in effect, the worlds best dry skin lotion because they work so well against dry skin as well as, or by, improving overall skin health.

I also should point out one more thing. These products use the best ingredients that modern technology can source. They are very expensive.

So aren't the products really expensive too? NO. And here's why. It's all about company philosophy and marketing.

The big name skin care and anti aging companies spend up big on TV advertising and marketing and spend the minimum on product quality, that's why their products contain dangerous (but cheap) chemical ingredients. But those TV ads with the big name stars cost megabucks.

The small niche skin care company which makes the products that I consider to be the best natural skin care and dry skin products available in the world today spend their budget on product quality, and don't advertise. So you've probably never heard of them.

And because you've never heard of them they offer a full money back guarantee so that potential customers can try the products risk free. That's how they do their marketing and they rely on the fact that when they have a new customer they have that customer for life.

So no, their products aren't really expensive at all, in fact they are very competitively priced. So if you've got dry skin and you've been trying all sorts of dry skin creams with little result, there is a solution and it's not about finding the best dry skin lotion, it's about using high quality natural skin care products that take care of your dry skin problem by promoting overall skin health.

That's the best way to tackle dry skin.

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The Best Way To Choose The Wrong Anti Aging Skin Care Products

The anti aging skin care products and cosmetics industries are huge businesses, turning over billions of dollars a year. There are lots of US women looking for solutions to looking younger and looking good, and plenty of big companies that take advantage of this.

But many mainstream anti aging skin care products just don't work. The cosmetics and skin care industry is quite unregulated in the US, and so the big cosmetics and skin care companies can put any product on the market without first proving that it works, and even without showing that it is safe for the people who use it.

So as well as the fact that many skin care products don't work they can contain dangerous ingredients.

But they sell in spades to cater to the desire of so many consumers to look younger, or at least to believe that they will look younger. And so there are hundreds of well known brand name products that promise all sorts of anti aging benefits everywhere you look.

So the challenge for the consumer is to navigate through all the hype and actually find a range of anti-aging skin care products that work and don't contain potentially dangerous ingredients.

Here's how not to choose good anti aging products.

1. Don't buy any skin care products that include fragrances in them. Now of course everyone likes to smell good, and the cosmetics companies pander to that, by adding fragrances to their products. Apply the cream and smell good and look young all at the same time.

But there's 2 problems. Firstly the skin care cream you're buying probably won't do very much to make you look younger.

Secondly, fragrances are not good chemicals to put on your skin. Because that's what they are, chemicals that smell good, and many of them aren't that good for you. It's the same with perfumes, for example, but if you apply a perfume it's only a small squirt on one spot, it's not massaged all over your face where it disappears, into your blood. So just use a perfume instead.

2. Don't buy anti aging skin care creams with collagen in them. Now we all know that as we age our skin loses collagen, so surely we need collagen replaced to combat the sagging and wrinkling and lines that come with skin aging?

Yes and no. Yes we need to replace that lost collagen, and no adding it to the bottles of anti-aging products like those moisturizers and day creams and night creams and so on doesn't work. It doesn't work because collagen molecules are too large to penetrate the skin, and so it just stays on the surface.

The best way to improve the collagen levels in your skin is to stimulate the body to produce more collagen itself.

So why is that collagen in the bottle, and why is that big name celebrity on TV telling you how much younger they look? Because the anti aging companies know that people buy the products if they have collagen in them, so they sell lots of bottles.

Even if it doesn't do anything for you. Even if it's got suspect ingredients. It will sell.

That's how these companies make so much money.

But all this fancy TV advertising costs a bomb, and the celebrity needs her huge cut.

So the anti aging skin care treatment that really doesn't do much costs a bomb too. But that's ok because people believe that if it's expensive it must be good. So they pay anyway.

And there's lots more things to avoid when choosing a good anti-aging skin care treatment. That's 2, for more visit my website.

So maybe you should just give up on anti-aging products because they don't work? No. There are excellent anti-aging products that work fine, are moderately priced and use ingredients known to be safe.

But they are produced by small niche companies that you've probably never heard of, who quietly produce high quality products at reasonable prices because they don't pay the good looking celebrities and spend up big on TV advertising. That's why you've never heard of them. If they started doing that their products would cost a bomb too.

But there's no need to despair. I've told you about some of the things you need to avoid when buying anti-aging skin care products. And that there are excellent alternatives. Now it's up to you. Find out more about natural skin care products on my website.

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Are You Using Safe Cosmetics?

Would you assume that the cosmetics, or perhaps the cosmetics that your daughter uses, would be safe to use. It would seem reasonable to make that assumption. We should all be able to assume that the government would protect us from dangerous products like dangerous cosmetics. Sadly it doesn't, and you need to source safe cosmetics so you're not taking a risk with your health. Are you using safe cosmetics?

Sadly no. Neither the government or the major cosmetics companies take steps to ensure that our cosmetics are safe, and as a result there is a whole range of dangerous cosmetics and skin care products on the market which contain dangerous ingredients including lead, 1,4-dioxane and paraben.

Doesn't the FDA do something about this? Sadly again, no. The FDA does not test or examine cosmetic products to establish that they are safe for human use and don't contain harmful ingredients, and even admit to this on the FDA website. The government does not act in our best interests by ensuring that the cosmetics that millions of American women use every single day are safe to use, and as a result we have dangerous cosmetics on the shelves of our major department stores.

The situation is so bad that there are now entire organizations set up to raise public awareness of this problem. Primary amongst them is one called the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics.

Sadly though the government isn't listening to the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics, and the cosmetics companies aren't listening either. There is nothing being done to protect US women from dangerous ingredients found in mascaras, bronzers, eye shadows, lipsticks, blushes and more that women here are using daily not realizing they are taking a risk with their health.

Here's a couple of examples of unsafe cosmetics for you, though there are many.

The Campaign For Safe Cosmetics initiated laboratory testing of major brand name lipsticks in 2007. The report was astonishing. More than 50% of big brand name lipsticks, including some of the biggest names that you may well use now, contained lead. And you're not even immune if you buy the most expensive brands, they were represented amongst the lipsticks that contained lead as well.

Back in 2002 laboratory tests found Phthalates in the majority of 72 different common big brand beauty, personal care and body products, including cosmetics, that most American women take for granted. This includes products from Calvin Klein, Christian Dior and Revlon. Phthalates are industrial chemicals linked to birth defects and abnormalities in male reproductive organs.

And this includes such common and everyday products like shampoos and toothpastes.

Despite the fact that Phthalates weren't listed on the labels they were found in 52 of 72 products tested.

Now is that scary or what?

Is it possible to buy safe cosmetics? Yes it is, in fact the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics runs a register of companies that are prepared to sign a compact pledging the company to make products using only known safe ingredients. And there are some excellent safe cosmetics to be found, but you won't find them on the shelves of your local store.

But I'll bet you've never heard of these small niche companies because they can't compete with the big brands on TV advertising, but nevertheless they make excellent and safe ranges of cosmetics.

Visit my website to find out more about safe cosmetics.

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