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Dangerous Anti Aging Facial Skin Care Products
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Anti Aging Facial Skin Care Products – Safe Or Toxic ?
Does Your Facial Skin Care Cream ContainPESTICIDE
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Would you eat an anti aging facial skin care product?
I know it’s a crazy sounding question but if you use skin care products of (any kind) then it’s highly relevant question which you’ll come to realize as you read through this article.
You’re probably already aware that you should not / cannot trust anti aging skin care product manufacturers and the claims made in their misleading marketing presentations. To take them at their word means flirting with potentially harmful side effects. This absolutely includes the elite, big name brands.
The greatest majority of anti aging facial skin care manufacturers share the same trade secrets (which they absolutely don’t want the general public to know. If their manufacturing shortcuts and secrets became widely known, their profits would take a hit. So, read on. Once you know the facts about the harmful ingredients they use, you will see exactly what health dangers and risks you’re up against. Not just for your facial skin but for your overall health and wellness.
The truth is not pretty. In fact it’s frightening in some cases!
ANTI AGING FACIAL SKIN CARE PRODUCTS AND TOXIC CHEMICALS
Why on earth would they use such dangerous ingredients?
Well, as you can guess, it all comes down to the mighty dollar. Bottom line profits! Your health and safety comes in a distant second to their multi million dollar profits. Although the big, well known companies are completely capable of producing highly effective anti aging facial skin care products which are completely safe, completely pure, and produce substantial anti aging results, they choose not to do so. This is primarily because of shareholder pressures ( ie. GREED! )
Skin care companies make their products to a price – and that’s the problem! The bio-scientists and chemists who formulate their products do not have a free hand in selecting ALL the very best and most effective ingredients which they know should be there. They are given an upper budget limit and they must formulate within that budget!
Here’s an example of what formulating skincare products to a price can result in. One of the skin care industry’s most well known, ‘elite’ brands – you know this brand for sure (it starts with the letter C), uses a nasty chemical in their anti aging facial skin care formulas which is technically classified as a PESTICIDE!
It’s called TRICLOSAN – an anti-bacterial chemical which kills harmful organisms on the skin BUT also destroys beneficial bacteria!
Why would any of us in our right minds allow a chemical used in weed killers to be absorbed into our bodies, no matter how small they tell us the dose may be. Sure, for most people there will be no apparent immediate symptoms but what about over the long term? What’s that going to do to your health some years down the track? There’s no research for the long term effects of many of the chemicals used in skin care formulas.
Your skin is your largest organ and one of your first-line defenses against disease, so naturally you should be thoroughly safety-minded and look after it accordingly!
There is clinical evidence to suggest triclosan may contribute to creating strains of bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics because it is so widely used use in skin care products.
I asked at the top whether you could eat your anti aging facial skin care products. As far as I’m concerned that should be the benchmark for skin care product formulators and manufacturers and one of your main criteria when choosing an anti aging skin care treatment. Always keep this in mind: Active ingredients are adsorbed into your bloodstream so it’s the same as eating them! And keep this in mind as well: it’s completely possible to formulate a highly effective facial skin care product from all natural ingredients with no chemicals whatsoever. It’s only a question of cost and desire.
Naturally it’s more expensive to use naturally sourced options for certain ingredients and excipients. Healthy options always cost more. Sourcing high-quality, 100% natural moisturizing oils, vegetable-based waxes and silicones, reparative proteins, antioxidants, vitamins and plant extracts are significantly more expensive. Shareholder pressures in the large multi nationals simply don’t allow the completely natural option to have a look in. It’s a non-starter. They are purely focused on maintaining and increasing their amazingly excessive profit margins.
ANTI AGING FACIAL SKIN CARE AND THE TERM ‘NATURAL INGREDIENT’
Now, there’s something I’d like to clear up about the term ‘natural ingredient’. Have you ever taken a really good look at the ingredients list on an “All Natural” or “Completely Pure” type anti aging facial skin care product? Despite the claims, there’s some pretty scary and completely chemical sounding names in those lists. But the skin care company may not actually be lying to you so let me explain.
Ingredients are listed using their INCI names which is an international scientific classification for all ingredients. This allows for consistency from product to product and allows consumers to easily compare ingredients across brands . In virtually all countries the cosmetic regulatory agency dictates that all cosmetics include a listing of ingredients using the standardized INCI name for each ingredient. INCI stands for “International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients”. So, naturally sourced ingredients listed using their INCI name can and do sound like harsh chemicals even though they are far from it.
BUT………………………….
…………………… the INCI name can be misleading! So I need to explain a little deeper if you’re going to develop the necessary knowledge to know how to find the best and purest anti aging facial skin care products from all the impostors in that saturated market out there..
An INCI name does not differentiate between an ingredient that is derived from petroleum and another which is derived from a natural plant source if the end substance broadly has a similar structure! It’s exactly like vitamin supplement ingredients. Like vitamin E for example – there’s a natural version and there’s a synthetic version (but how are you meant to know which one has been used when they simply print ‘Vitamin E’ on the label). Each are manufactured completely differently and the efficacy of each is extremely different!
Here’s an example for you – ‘Glycerine’. You’ll find this ingredient in anti aging skin care treatment as a humectant. What you want is natural plant based glycerine. But most companies use petroleum-based glycerine because it’s significantly cheaper. Plant based glycerine is completely safe to consume . Who wants petroleum-based glycerine absorbed into their body?
ANTI AGING FACIAL SKIN CARE – THE BOTTOM LINE
The type of skin care company you should buy from is the type who issues a brief to their scientists and chemists that goes something like this : ‘Put together the very best formulas possible that actually work and all formulas must be safe enough to eat’.
This is the kind of high standard which should reflect a company’s anti aging skin care philosophy! The long term health of your skin should be their prime objective. Yes, there are skin care companies like that out there but nowhere near as many as you would expect! Perhaps your lucky enough to have already come across one.
I’ll share the name of a company with you who manufactures the standard of skin care products which ALL manufacturers should work to. The purity and efficacy of this company’s products are why I chose to use them in my own skin care program. NOTE: It’s vital that you consider both purity AND efficacy when shopping for anti aging facial skin care products (in fact any skin care products).
I’ve reviewed hundreds of skin care products and nothing so far can match the products from this company, which is called Xtend-Life, a New Zealand based company. They use 2-3 times more actives than most other companies. That’s the first thing that made my ears prick up. Despite the number of costly ingredients they include, they keep their prices very affordable (unlike the elite brands!) In other words they have obviously priced their skin care products according to the cost of manufacture and not according to the highest level that the market will bear. Their risk-free 90-day money back guarantee shows how confident they are.
Think for a moment – why don’t we see the super expensive, elite brands offering a 3 month money back guarantee? It’s obvious right!
I think the key in the anti aging skin care product industry is simply to produce the best product in its category while giving the best value for money and keep profit margins low so there’s no incentive for competitors to copy. That’s clearly the strategy which the Xtend-Life company has focused on.
Skin care companies who do use only naturally sourced ingredients usually make a pretty big deal of it on their websites and in their marketing literature. Rest assured it will be highlighted in big bold letters. If you don’t see anything mentioned and you want to know, then rather than researching the ingredients yourself which is time consuming, just fire off a quick email to the company asking straight out if all ingredients are natural. Ask for a listing of all ingredients using their common names rather than their INCI classifications. Ask if any of the ingredients are ‘petroleum derived’ ! See if you get a response and how they word it.
Don’t forget to take a look at my dangerous ingredients in skin care products chart!
Would you like some more examples?
Click the link at the end of this paragraph to open a chart showing the ingredients in the anti aging facial skin care products I use. This chart shows their common names and INCI names. All of them are completely natural and safe enough to eat. Take a look at how their INCI names are misleading and sound like chemicals. You can use the additional info column there to understand more about each one and use this as a handy resource to check on skin care products you’re currently using or have been thinking about getting.
Anti aging facial skin care ingredients
If you’re interested, this next link will take you straight to the product info page for the skin care range from Xtend-life. If you’re a guy click the ‘Mens’ Skincare link and take a look at the ‘Age-Defense Active Facial Fluid’ and the ‘Age-Defense Active Body Lotion’ – these are the two I use.
The three foundation actives they contain are known as the ‘Big Three’ anti aging ingredients (which the elite skin care companies are currently gearing up to start using – they have about a 1-2 year lead in time for new formulas so it will be a while for them and as usual they’re bound to be ridiculously overpriced).
Xtend-Life anti aging skin care range
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Great skin care info thanks!
There are also more products being developed that are organic and all natural. Also use a good SPF!
Wow, this is a real eye-opener. We spend so much time thinking about what we put in our bodies, we should be just as careful about what we put on our bodies.
You have to be so careful of what you put on your skin. When my kids had teenage acne I tried using products containing salicylic acid or benzoyl peroxide and could not believe the serious problems these caused. SO much for over the counter solutions. WHen we went down the natural track, their acne problem cleared up without any side effects.
@ Kerry – you are dead right. I used to work in the Pharmaceutical Industry for a leading company in New Zealand and we did a lot of research into competing products etc – the chemicals that some companies willingly put into their products are staggering. Put it this way. Some of our tests found that many of the chemicals would KILL the common house fly within 3 hours of direct exposure…imagine that on your skin.
Nice facts, I know all the big companies are quite capable of it, infact if you seek the natural and ingredients which aren’t harmful, they’re there but it’s only upto the companies whether they go with it or cheaper and harmful chemicals which does the same effect but harms your skin a lot.
Your research was great buddy, and yeah we literally eat up any creams we apply so it’s important to know that those creams are not harmful to us.
Yikes! This is deeply disturbing.
I think all the big cosmetics companies are quite able to insett petroleum based ingredients and describe them as nartural. It is often said “we are what we eat” we could also say “our skin is what we put on it”.
Asking the companies straight out to list in ordinary names the ingredients which make up their products is a good idea.
Big companies will take short cuts it is up to us all to question what is in the final product and beging to ask “whether this product is safe to eat”. We may have to pay a little more for a quality product but the long term effects leave us looking good for many years which is after all the whole point.
Thanks for the article.
Brian
Great work a man after my own heart. I love the thought process behind the article. I happen to know a gentleman who used to be head of product formulation for the largest manufacturer of nutrition product in the US. They did all kinds of private label formulations for numerous other companies. With a few exceptions he said essentially the same thing. Companies would come to him and say we need this product and it needs to cost X amount. Besides that often meaning less than the best ingredients were used, it also meant that not enough potency of certain key ingredients were in the product to be effective.
Great product !! actually i using hurble skin care product for my oily skin but it not much effective then i also searching a new product and i get it now !! thank you so much .
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Ew… weedkiller. People actually put that on their face?
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Scary information.. And I’m pretty sure those big companies are actually using this. As long as there’s profit in it, they wont care much about the consumers.
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