There’s suspect or downright dangerous ingredients in cosmetics and skin care products.

We’ve talked at length about dangerous ingredients in your skin care products and cosmetics. And about the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics as well.

Here’s a video about it. It’s only short but it tells you a little more. It talks purely about dangerous cosmetics/safe cosmetics but of course the same things all apply to skin care products and anti aging products as well.

We hope you find the video interesting. It’s just a few more things for you to think about before you buy those skin care and anti aging products you normally buy, (unless you buy your skin care products here.)

Interesting isn’t it?

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(And make sure you read our page about Natural Skin Care, it's quite an eye opener about modern skin care products.)

Actually the first consideration isn’t which anti aging product is the best.

We have had a reader send us a question. Which is the best anti aging skin care product? And so we’ve reproduced our answer here for everyone to read.

Dear Susan, We think, before you consider which is the best anti aging skin care product you need to ask a preliminary question. For us there is a question that we think is much more important than how well a particular skin care product works. The question is this. How safe are those skin care products? Because unfortunately many skin care products contain nasty ingredients and can be unsafe. So before you even begin to consider how well any particular skin care product works you need to consider if it offers any dangers to you if you use it. Because no matter how well any anti aging skin care product works it’s of no use to you if it is potentially dangerous. And there are many skin care products that are potentially dangerous, and listed as a cancer risk. No amount of great skin care would justify to us taking a risk of getting cancer. We’d put up with wrinkles from our head to our feet before we took a risk with cancer. That’s not to say that if you use skin care products you’ll get cancer, but the RISK is there. Just have a look at some of the big brand name skin care products at the Cosmetic Safety Database and see what risks they detect. Only once you’ve established that a product or a product range is safe would we even begin to think about how well it works. That’s why we are so anxious to get the word out about Xtend Life. Because they offer a top shelf range of natural skin care products that are, firstly, safe. They are a signatory to the Compact for Safe Cosmetics and have a stated commitment to making natural skin care products that are SAFE ENOUGH TO EAT. You can’t do much better than that for safety. And to reiterate, safety comes before how well a product works. Fortunately the Xtend Life products work equally as well as their commitment to safety. So by all means consider how well skin care products work, but if it was us we would always ask first, how SAFE are these skin care products, and research them well, using the methods we’ve outlined here before. Best Wishes Editors Natural Health - Natural Skin Care.

We hope that explains it well. More on What Is The Best Anti Aging Skin Care Product?

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You need to find out whether the products you may be buying now could be hazardous.

We’ve talked before about dangerous skin care products, and how there may well be hazardous ingredients in the skin care products that you may well buy now.

How there is little FDA regulation or control of what ingredients skincare companies can use in their skincare products, and for that matter in cosmetics either, and that this can result in skincare products and anti aging products with ingredients  in them that are considered to be hazardous.

And when it comes to buying great skin care products, the very FIRST consideration for you, the consumer, is that the product doesn’t have the potential to do you harm.

Many skin care products don’t perform well, or do nothing at all for promoting great looking healthy skin. But when they can actually harm your skin, or your health, that’s another matter entirely.

So if you buy skin care products and anti aging products now, and are wondering if any of those products could be hazardous, what do you do about it?

There’s a way to research this. There is an organization called the “Cosmetic Safety Database”, which reports on the companies, and the products, that may be worth avoiding. They list products according to the degree of risk ingredients in those products may pose to users.

It’s listed on a scale of 1 to 10 where 1 is lower risk, or hazard, and 10 is maximum hazard.

So you don’t want to find that the products YOU use are a 7 or 8 on the hazard scale.

Find out.

Just go to the Cosmetic Safety Database and search either the product that you use or the company that makes it. You’ll see the search tool right there on their home page.

I just searched “Olay” for an example. The database tells me that Olay has 279 products listed from 1 to 9. I clicked the “OLAY AGE DEFYING AGE DEFYING ANTI-WRINKLE DAILY LOTION, SPF 15″.

It tells me that this product rates a hazard rating of 7 out of 10, and is not recommended. And it tells you what the problems with it are. It tells you that the products ingredients are linked to:

1. Cancer.
2. Developmental/reproductive toxicity.
3. Allergies.
4 And a list of other concerns.

(and that the company tests on animals too. And that they haven’t signed the Compact for Safe Cosmetics.)

So if you’ve read our site, and you’re concerned about the safety of the products you may be using, including sunscreens, skincare products, anti aging products, cosmetics and more, you can research exactly what the problems you face may be.

What Do You Do About It?

Use high quality natural skin care products that don’t contain harmful ingredients. Xtend Life make the best skin care products in the world, not only are they safe to use, they are also the most effective skin care products and anti aging products on the market.

If you research Xtend Life products on the Cosmetics Safety Database you’ll find that the number of products that they have with hazardous ingredients is:

ZERO

(and they’re a signatory to the Compact for Safe Cosmetics) More on Find Out If YOUR Skin Care Products Are Dangerous

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What have grapefruit to do with lowering cholesterol?

If you’re trying to lower your cholesterol you have quite a number of choices. Yesterday we wrote about lowering cholesterol naturally.

And our choice is always to try natural methods to lower cholesterol, because we don’t like to see people taking the risks of using cholesterol lowering drugs like statin drugs to lower cholesterol because of risks associated with these drugs.

And you need to remember that if you’ve been told by your doctor to lower your cholesterol and he’s prescribed statin drugs to you to do this, he is, in effect, asking you to stay on statins for the rest of your life.

Because once you’ve started on them they may work, but if you stop your cholesterol goes back up unless you’ve changed something else significant in your life as well.

Anyway, we’ve been reading about one of the other considerations of using drugs like statins to lower cholesterol levels. It’s called the “grapefruit effect”.

No it doesn’t mean that if you eat lots of grapefruit you can lower your cholesterol by eating grapefruit. In fact it’s the opposite.

Scientists have found that if you are on cholesterol lowering prescription drugs like statins, that if you eat grapefruit then this will increase the levels of these drugs in your bloodstream without you actually taking any more of them.

Canadian scientists together with scientists from the University of Michigan found that an enzyme in your stomach interferes with the breakdown of these prescription drugs and so, as it stops them from breaking down in your stomach, will increase the blood levels of these drugs.

And eating grapefruit increases this to potentially toxic levels. It’s not currently understood why.

And it seems that the effects of eating grapefruit on these drugs varies from person to person too.

Another reason why you ought to consider more natural cholesterol lowering supplements together with some basic diet and lifestyle changes.

We would always prefer to start with natural methods rather than take the risks associated with cholesterol lowering drugs. More on Lowering Cholesterol And The Grapefruit Effect.

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(And make sure you read our page about Natural Skin Care, it's quite an eye opener about modern skin care products.)