There is a way to tell if a skin care products company is committed to using safe ingredients.

I’ve talked quite a bit here about some of the ingredients that are used in cosmetics, skin care and anti aging products. And about how many of them are suspected of causing unwanted health effects to users, and how at least one of these cosmetics ingredients is listed as “known to cause cancer”.

So it’s pretty clear that there are some dangerous ingredients in skin care products and anti aging products and cosmetics.

If this is news to you then you need to read some more of my pages, starting with this one about natural skin care.

And you can find quite a few references to some suspect ingredients in Wikipedia too.

So if there are dangerous ingredients in some skin care products how do you know whether the company that makes your skin care and anti aging products is one committed to producing safe cosmetics or not?

Because some are, and some are not.

You need to know about the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics.

This is an organization committed to doing all it can to promote the use of safe ingredients in cosmetics. And they have a database of companies that have signed their campact for safe cosmetics.

Signing their compact for safe cosmetics pledges the company who signs “to not use chemicals that are known or strongly suspected of causing cancer, mutation or birth defects in their products and to implement substitution plans that replace hazardous materials with safer alternatives in every market they serve.”

You’ll know if you read regularly here that I consider the niche skin care company located in New Zealand called Xtend Life to be the best in the world for safe, and effective skin care and anti aging products for men and women.

So I just thought I’d let you know that Xtend Life is a signatory to the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics compact. As such it has pledged itself to producing cosmetics and skin care and anti aging product that are safe for consumers to use.

And that’s worth knowing.

Why don’t you see which company makes the skin care products or cosmetics that you use now by checking on the bottle.

Then see if they have signed the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics pledge? Read the rest of this entry

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