Skin Care

The fastest growing segment of the anti aging skin care market is natural skin care products including natural moisturizers and there are good reasons for this. So many people are turning to natural skin products that are safer and more effective than so many of the regular mainstream skin care products that you may know well now. Lets see why you should use a natural moisturizer.

Modern skin care products including many well-known moisturizers and other anti aging products contain petrochemical and chemical ingredients. A good ingredient to highlight is mineral oil.

Mineral oil is a petrochemical that comes from the distillation of crude oil. It is found in many hundreds of moisturizers. If you examine the cosmetic safety database you’ll find that mineral oil has been linked to a range of health concerns including bioaccumulation, allergies and immunotoxicity, cancer and skin irritation to name a few. It is found in so many products because it is very cheap.

Mineral oil has no moisturizing properties. It is used to coat the skin with a film of oil with the expectation that this will prevent moisture loss. Whilst this is effective it means that the user risks all the health concerns previously mentioned and also increases the risk of acne.

There is a wide range of naturally occurring ingredients which are extremely effective as natural skin moisturizers. Ingredients such as olive oil, shea butter and macadamia nut oil as well as many others are all known to be excellent natural moisturizers. However they are rarely used in mainstream anti aging skin care products because they are much more expensive than the chemical alternatives.

What I have previously outlined is gradually becoming much more well known and this is why there is a growing and powerful movement away from chemical and petrochemical laden skin care products towards more natural alternatives which use safer and more effective natural ingredients.

Some consumers choose to source these natural moisturizers in their raw state and use them as they are. Whilst some can be found in their raw state others cannot and it can be difficult and messy to make up your own body moisturizer or facial moisturizer like this.

But there are companies, usually small niche skin care company, which recognise the opportunity in this problem and who choose to manufacture natural skin care products with known safe and effective natural ingredients. These companies produce excellent products such as natural moisturizers which are very effective.

However if these natural ingredients are very expensive should we not conclude that the products in which they are used are also very expensive? That in fact is not the case. There is one simple reason. These small companies choose to direct their budget towards product quality rather than towards marketing. They do not advertise on television and therefore do not need to factor the cost of television advertising into the price of the product and are therefore able to produce a price competitive product. Often they include a money back guarantee.

There are, as you can see, very powerful reasons for this movement away from chemical laden mainstream skin care products and towards better natural skin care products. The movement is towards more natural, safer and more effective products and away from the big brand names.

But it is quite common that consumers have never heard of these small niche skin care companies because they do not advertise. However when they discover the effectiveness of the products they are usually extremely pleasantly surprised and routinely become lifelong customers.

So if you’ve recently discovered the problems with mainstream skin care products and are searching for a high quality natural moisturizer the good news is that they are available. To find out where they are available visit my website.