The skin on your body ages like the skin on your face. A quality natural body lotion can address this.

Commonly on our website we talk about skin care for the face, because that is the area of the body that concerns most women. It’s obviously the most visible. However for those seriously concerned about their skin there are also some excellent options for natural body lotions.

Of course all the same concerns apply to body lotions as apply to facial skin care products. Many of the mainstream body lotions contain many of the same chemical and petrochemical ingredients that are found in our mainstream facial skin care lotions.

Mineral oil is commonly found in many body creams. Mineral oil is a petrochemical, meaning that it comes from crude oil. Many people consider that mineral oil should never be applied to the skin. If you read a Material Safety Data Sheet on mineral oil it will warn about the risks of skin irritation.

It might surprise you to learn that some body lotions contain mineral oil. The reason is quite simple, because mineral oil is exceedingly cheap. Many well-known body creams contain very little in the way of effective skin care ingredients, and contain mineral oil. You might be surprised at how ineffective many body creams are, and that some may even irritate your skin.

Unfortunately the vast bulk of body care products are made down to a price rather than up to a standard.

That does not applied all cases however. One natural body lotion defies this trend by using only natural and safe ingredients and by ensuring that it has adequate levels of active ingredients so that it works to moisturise your skin very effectively. And no mineral oil.

One of the major causes of wrinkles on your face is the loss of skin collagen and elastin as you age. Collagen and elastin are both essential skin proteins which play a huge part in maintaining the elasticity of your skin. For that reason improving the levels of skin collagen and elastin is one of the most important goals of any high quality facial skin care product, and this dramatically helps reduce wrinkles.

However all the same applies to the skin of your body. Perhaps you’re finding skin discoloration on areas of your body. Maybe you’re getting dry skin, or the skin on your knees your elbows is getting rough and dry. All will respond to a high quality natural body lotion that contains high levels of active ingredients, all of which offer no risks to your skin or your health.

Needless to say this natural body lotion is more expensive than the one you may be using now. And the company that manufactures this excellent product recognizes that selling a product like this at a price that is higher than other products on the market isn’t easy.

And for this reason they offer a full 90 day money back guarantee. This gives you the opportunity to try the product, experience the results for yourself and understand how much better this body body cream is than other products, completely risk free safe in the knowledge that you have a money back guarantee.

So remember, when we talk about the risks of chemical and petrochemical ingredients in your facial skin care products all the same applies to big brand body lotions. Read the rest of this entry

You don’t want to find fragrances in skin care products. Here’s why

We have previously talked about the risks to your health from fragrances in skin care products and a range of other personal and beauty products. Today we wanted to go into a little more depth about the health risks of fragrances.

Just to recap, there are thousands of fragrances present in so many of the personal products such as anti aging skin care products, cosmetics, soaps, shampoos, deodorants and much more that virtually all of this use on our skin every single day.

Fragrances are chemicals, normally created in a lab, and the vast majority of them have never been tested for safety for use on people. So the health risks of many are simply unknown.

And in some cases the health risks are known, including neurotoxicity which can potentially lead to brain damage.

If you browse this page at the Cosmetics Database you’ll see a range of skin care and anti aging products listed there. In fact there are hundreds or possibly even thousands listed, however they can only fit so many on the page.

On the right you’ll see a coloured circle with a number in it. The number represents the score that the Cosmetics Database assigns to that product on a scale of 0 to 10, where 0 represents no perceived health hazards from the use of the product and 10 represents maximum health risk.

Of course there is some fluidity in these results, because, as is normally noted in the results, there are some gaps in the data and some other reasons why it is impossible to give a perfect result.

Notwithstanding this we wouldn’t want be using a product that has a score of 8 or above, let alone 10. In fact we wouldn’t want to use a skin care product with any number beside it at all. Data gaps or not we would prefer to err on the side of caution.

Now let’s look at one of the particular products listed there. Click on the one second from the top, namely Home Skin Lab effective Wrink’less The Wrinkle Corrector. The page you are presented with details the particular ingredients which are considered a health risk, together with a summary of the potential health risks. Here’s an image of that page.

What do you notice about the ingredients? The top listed ingredient with the highest score, marked with a red circle, is fragrance. Click on fragrance and you’ll find out more.

If you’ve read our previous page you will know that the chemical used as a fragrance is often not listed on the label. Scroll down and you will note the statement “Ingredient not fully labeled – identity unknown”.

Need we say more about the risks of fragrances in anti aging skin care products and wide range of other personal and beauty products. Anyone concerned about fragrances, or any one of dozens of other chemical ingredients found in these products should immediately start looking for alternatives.

And spend some time looking at some of the other antiaging products with a score of 10 and see how often “fragrance” is listed there.

As far as skin care products go the good news is that one small niche skin care company recognizes completely the risks of fragrances, along with many other chemical ingredients, and produces extremely high quality natural skin care products that do not contain any fragrances for this reason. They also do not contain any other chemical ingredients which may be suspect to your health.

Not only that but they work extremely well and come with a 90 day money back guarantee. You can’t ask for more than that. Read the rest of this entry