Beauty and Skin Care Resources

Ralph Nader has said that “Over the last 100 years, the rate of cancer in the U.S. has sky-rocketed from 1 out of 800 people diagnosed, to 1 out of 3 today. Are you Wondering why?” Is it possible the reason is that so many ingredients found in anti aging skin care products, cosmetics and other personal products could be dangerous?

There’s no doubt that many of the ingredients found in so many personal products including skin care products that we use on our skin today are suspect or dangerous. This isn’t confined to the skin care or personal products industries, it is true of so many of the products that we use today including many we eat.

Here’s a quick example of an ingredient that you may find in many personal products that you would be well advised to avoid. Mineral oil.

Mineral oil is a petrochemical product which means that it comes from distilling crude oil. If you buy baby oil you’re getting a bottle of mineral oil.

Look on the label of many skin care products and anti aging products and you’ll see mineral oil listed, often under a range of different names. It’s there because it’s supposed to be a moisturizer, however mineral oil doesn’t moisturize. What it does is to form a layer of oil over the skin to prevent moisture loss. This works.

Have you ever heard of a Material Safety Data Sheet? A Material Safety Data Sheet is a document that lists essential information for anyone handling a chemical, including important safety information. Read a Material Safety Data Sheet on mineral oil and you’ll see that it says that mineral oil is are “suspected carcinogens of the skin and scrotum, larynx, lung and alimentary tracts” and that mineral oils “may cause eye, skin and respiratory tract irritation” and also that “pre-existing skin disorders may be aggravated by exposure”.

In other words mineral oil can cause cancer of various parts of your body including your skin, it irritates your skin and makes skin conditions worse.

That’s one of very many ingredients that you may find listed on the label of a bottle of skin care products or anti aging products that you may have on the shelves right now and may have even used this morning. How can it be that there are products available for everyone to buy that contain ingredients that are potentially dangerous?

The truth is that the FDA is not required to test products such as anti aging products for either their safety or for how well they work. Big business is not known for its ethics and concern for the customer, (just see the cigarette companies for an example). If they are allowed to use suspect ingredients in their products and it pays then to do so then they will.

Many of the ingredients that are found in so many personal products that most of us use every day are there because they are very cheap. The cheaper they can make the product the more profit that is made. Despite the fact that there are excellent products that are known to moisturize successfully and are also known to have a wide range of properties beneficial to our skin health they are rarely used because they are expensive.

But there are some very clever people running some small skin care companies that know that it is possible to make high quality anti aging skin products that are very effective. They can’t compete on TV advertising but they can compete on product quality but the chances are you’ll never find out who they are because they don’t advertise.

My website is intended to inform about the risks of modern big brand anti aging and skin care products and point you in the direction of these small companies that you’ve probably never heard of.

If you’d like to find out more then visit my website.

Visit Restore My Skin for more about the best Anti Ageing Skin Products or more about the Best Natural Anti Ageing Skin care.

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