Natural Skincare

Natural Skin Care
By Edward Group

You work hard to eat a healthy diet and exercise regularly. You know that organic foods can help you avoid ingesting nasty hormones and chemicals but did you know that these toxins are creeping into your system in other ways? Your moisturizers, eye creams, and make up may seem harmless, but check out the labels and you'll find a laundry list of tongue-twisting ingredients, many of which could be hazardous to your health. In a recent survey, conducted by Health, eighty three percent of responding consumers indicated that they would rather use all natural body products. The skin care industry is responding to this demand. The natural and organic skin care product sector has seen a growth of thirty nine percent over the last year. Some of these products may claim to be all-natural, while still containing a slew of chemicals and toxins. Here's what you need to know about natural skin care and how to determine if the product you are using is free of harmful chemicals.

Why Choose Natural Skin Care Products?

There is approximately six pounds of skin on your body which provides a porous membrane into your system. Dirt, dust, pollutants, and other environmental pollutants enter the body through the skin, providing a more significant gateway to your system than food. The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) found that 884 chemicals used in personal care products and cosmetics are known to be toxic. And a recent Canadian study in Pediatric Drugs found cosmetic and personal care products as the most common cause of unintentional poisonings of kids under six.

The chemicals and toxins found in most commercial skin care products also have a detrimental effect on the environment, although this effect is just beginning to be understood. In March, a team of US Geological Survey scientists showed that a variety of chemicals from personal care products were among 95 wastewater contaminants found in US waterways.

Why poison yourself and the environment with toxic chemicals and pollutants? Natural skin care products are healthier for you, for your skin, and for the environment. But many products may claim to be all-natural while still containing a number of harmful ingredients. Make sure you read and understand the product label to ensure that the product your using is as natural as it claims to be.

Reading the Ingredients Label

Organic personal care manufacturing needs strict standards and enforcement in order to be effective. Currently, some manufacturers claim their products are organic merely as a marketing gimmick. One look at their products ingredients clearly suggests otherwise. Only by tying organic beauty care closely to the National Organic Program standards can the “lifestyle” marketed by the manufacturers represent the values at the core of organic agriculture.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) classifies cosmetics into 13 categories, but it does not regulate them. According to the FDA, “A cosmetic manufacturer may use any ingredient or raw material and market the final product without government approval.” Seven toxins are banned, but many more known toxins and carcinogens are allowed in cosmetic formulations. Less than one percent of the FDA’s budget is for the evaluation of skin care products.

Many commercial skin care products have been regularly found to contain toxic chemicals. Surprisingly, most personal care products are not tested for health and safety. And because the FDA does not regulate skin care manufacturers, questionable ingredients often make their way into their formulas. These ingredients may seem harmless in the short-term, but their chemical components are stored in the fatty tissues of the body where they accumulate and magnify over time.

Cosmetics and personal care products are marketed based on the quality and content of their formulas. Many products claim to be filled with expensive vitamins, oils, and perfumes. Others claim to utilize an all-natural formula. But how can you be sure that the products you buy actually contain the ingredients they claim to have? Read the label, right? But unless you happen to be a scientist or chemist, the ingredient list on most cosmetics and personal care products will look like a long list of mind-numbing, tongue-twisting names.

This is where natural and organic skin care products should stand out. If a product claims to be all natural, its ingredients should be easily recognizable as natural components. Also, the ingredients should be listed in descending order with the most prominent factors listed first. Scrutinize the first several listings in the product to be sure that they are the natural ingredients you are looking for. If a skin care product contains an ingredient that you are unsure about, write down it's name and do a little research. A quick online search should reveal it's true nature. As a consumer, you need to be on the look out for chemicals and toxic ingredients that can be harmful to your skin and your body. You would not even think about eating a food that contained chemicals or cancer causing agents. Don't let these toxins enter your system through your beauty product either!

Dr. Group, the founder/CEO and clinical director for the Global Healing Center, heads a research and development team producing advanced, new, natural health protocols and products. To learn more visit http://www.ghchealth.com

Best Skin Care Products

The Best Skin Care Products That Help Prevent Wrinkles
By Pamela Brooks

What kind of treatment will help prevent wrinkles? This is a question that almost every other person asks me these days. Apart from the fact that I read a lot about skin care, there is another reason for these people to ask me this question. I don't have wrinkles, dark spots, pimples, saggy skin, or any other signs of premature aging that could make me look like a man with midlife crisis. So, naturally, people wonder and ask me 'how do you look so young and have flawless skin despite slogging in the office for more than 10 hours a day?' Well; there is a way. A rather easy way if I can say so.

The best idea that can help prevent wrinkles is to use a good skin care cream. I use one. A really good one, I must add. But before I tell you anything more about using a skin care cream and all that stuff, let me first tell you something about premature aging in general.

So, what is the big deal about wrinkles? Why do you want to prevent face wrinkles? The answer is - they make you look like an old man. Can you imagine looking like a 40 year old man when you are actually 20 something? But with wrinkles, dark spots, saggy skin, and bags under the eyes, one can look a lot older than his actual age. This is the reason why you should take good care of your skin. After all, you don't want 12 year olds to start greeting you uncle when you are just 20, do you?

So, I said the secret to prevent face wrinkles is to use a good skin cream and I also said that I use one. But what I am about to tell you is the most important part. It is about choosing the right skin care cream. Surprisingly, a lot of people have no idea about skin care and they just go and pick skin care products randomly. This is wrong. You should choose your skincare products as carefully as you would choose a medication that you take internally. In a sense, what you apply on your skin actually goes into your body, as your skin simply absorbs it. So, you need to be careful about what you apply on your skin.

The best way and the most trusted way to find a good skin care product is to go organic. While there are a lot of artificial cosmetic items that promise to help prevent wrinkles, they are not as effective as they claim to be and most importantly not safe. A lot of skin care companies, including some big, popular brands, use a lot of chemicals that are absolutely unsafe for your skin. As a result, a lot of people who use these products experience severe side effects and they end up looking worse than what they used to before using those products.

The best way to avoid all these problems and still take good care of your skin is to go for organic skin care products which are perfectly safe for your skin. There are a lot of good organic skin care products that can prevent face wrinkles. When it comes to such organic products, the kind of ingredients used in a product determines how effective a product is. So, you should look out for organic skin care products with the best natural ingredients that deliver great results. Some of these ingredients include functional keratin, wakame (a special kind of Japanese kelp extract), manuka honey (a very rare type of honey found in New Zealand), natural oils like olive oil, grape seed oil, avocado oil, and macadamia oil, and other herbal and fruit extracts. If you can find a good organic cream with these ingredients, go for it.

So, there you have it - the perfect recipe to help prevent wrinkles. Get started today, buy a good organic skin cream, use it regularly, and you can find the difference for yourself. Getting rid of wrinkles and getting younger looking skin has never been easier.

Pamela Brooks has been studying the skin care industry for over 15 years. She is a regular contributor to http://www.skin-and-health-care.com a site covering the very best quality skin care products on the market today.

Organic Skin Care Products

7 Important Things to Look For and Avoid in Organic Skin Care Products
By Valerie Rosenbaum

It seems like every time you turn your head, someone's gone organic. The same holds true for skin care. Organic skin care is getting very popular because more and more people are worried about what they put on their skin.

Using skin care products that contain chemical ingredients has been linked to a variety of health problems as well as bad skin. What is the point of spending time and money on skin care if you aren't going to get the results you want and you put your health at risk to boot?

Many people are going natural in order to achieve younger, healthier, and more beautiful skin. The only way to know whether the products you are using are truly natural or not is to look for some important characteristics. Here are 7 of them.

1. Only buy organic skin care products from a company that has signed the Compact for Safe Cosmetics. Any company that has signed this compact has pledged not to use any ingredients in their products that are strongly suspected of causing cancer or other health problems.
2. In organic skin care, the only way to know if a product is truly natural is to find out whether it is edible. Products that are safe enough to eat are safe enough to put on your skin because they get absorbed and enter your bloodstream.
3. Organic skin care products should contain a high concentration of active ingredients. Make sure that at least 50% of the product is made up of active ingredients because the active ingredients can only have a significant effect when they are used in high concentrations.
4. Look for organic skin care creams with active ingredients that combat the three causes of aging skin if you want skin that is younger looking and more beautiful. Ingredients like phytessence wakame, coenzyme Q10 in the nano-emulsion form, and functional keratin fight the three main causes of aging which are the loss of collagen, the loss of hyaluronic acid, and the damage done by free radicals.
5. Make sure the organic skin care products you are interested do not contain any synthetic chemical ingredients whatsoever. Avoid ingredients such as mineral oil, which clogs your pores and causes photosensitivity, acne, and more. Also avoid parabens, which can cause cancer and interfere with your body's endocrine system.
6. Make sure to use products that are compatible with all skin types. Gentle, effective products in organic skin care are okay to use on all skin types because they do not contain any harsh ingredients that can irritate sensitive skin. They also contain natural ingredients that balance sebum so your skin is never too oily or too dry.
7. Organic skin care products that contain an SPF factor should be avoided. You may have been trained to believe that products with an SPF factor are necessary if you want to prevent skin cancer but the truth is that the chemicals in SPF factors can actually cause skin cancer.

So what are you waiting for? Make the change and get started with organic skin care. Use this information to guide you in finding products that are effective, natural, and affordable. For more beautiful skin, go organic!

Dr. Valerie Rosenbaum is a dermatologist who specializes in aging of the skin. She has done extensive research on the many chemicals used in skin care products. For more information visit her website http://www.DefendYourSkin.com