Natural Skin Care Blog

Skin care is a serious matter, as is your health.

I’m sure you’re serious about your health. Your health, ultimately, is all you have. Take away your health and what have you got?

For this reason serious skin care should also be about good health. After all, what good is a wonderful looking skin if we don’t have our health?

And quite frankly, it’s not likely that you’ll have wonderful clear glowing healthy skin if you’re general health is poor. That’s because everything is related, and if you have poor health then this will probably show in your skin which will be less than perfect looking. Serious skin care needs total health care.

So for those looking for wonderful looking skin, in other words those serious about their skincare, there’s 2 great pieces of advice we can offer.

1. Get serious about your health.

2. Get serious about which skin care products to avoid.

Getting serious about your health.

Recognize that the healthier you get the more this will show in your skin. Better health, better skin. How do you do this?

Easy. Well simple, maybe not easy.

1. Exercise regularly.

2. Have a high quality diet high in fruit and vegetables with plenty of good antioxidants.

3. Use high quality natural supplements to make up for the vitamin and mineral deficiencies that afflict all of us.

Maybe not so easy to do, but if you do these 3 simple things your life, and your skin, and your health, will all thank you for it.

And how do you get serious about what skin care products to avoid and what skin care products to use? Easy again. Avoid mainstream skin care and cosmetic products by the household name companies.

You’ll find the reasons for this elsewhere on this site, but basically the ingredients in mainstream anti aging products are suspect to our health. (And they don’t work.)

Use natural skin care products that work. Ones with antioxidants, skin care products that have been shown not to be dangerous to your health. Skin care products that really do what they say they do.

Products that you can try risk free, because they come with a money back guarantee in case you don’t like them. Mainstream companies don’t offer money back guarantees like that. Read the rest of this entry

If you see “Paraben” in your skin care lotions don’t use them.

I’ve talked about the dangerous chemical in skin care products on my page about natural skin care.

Lets have a more in depth look at one of the chemicals you don’t want to find listed in the list of ingredients on the side of the bottle of your skin care cream, or skin care lotion.

Here’s where Wikipedia says you’re likely to find Paraben. “They can be found in shampoos, commercial moisturizers, shaving gels, cleansing gels, personal lubricants, topical/parenteral pharmaceuticals, spray tanning solution and toothpaste”.

Now let me be clear here, Parabens have not been proven to be unsafe. However that’s part of the problem. There is doubt either way, and personally I’d prefer to know that a product has been shown clearly to be safe before I used it, whereas because the cosmetics and skin care and anti aging companies don’t need to convince any government body of the safety of their products they can go ahead and use anything regardless, even if it’s suspect.

This is actually a recognised principle, called the Precautionary Principle. Basically it say, paraphrasing, that where something could be harmful to people the burden of proof should lie on those promoting it’s use to show that it’s safe, not the other way round.

And Parabens have not been shown to be safe, and some studies have suggested a link to cancer. Here’s an aticle talking about Parabens in deodorants. It recognises that although they aren’t shown to cause cancer conclusively, there is some doubt about it. Read the rest of this entry