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Don’t Mix Unsafe Cosmetics And Teenage Girls

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

You might be unaware that there are dangerous ingredients in many big brand name cosmetics, and a new study is showing that this might be affecting teenage girls.

Our big brand cosmetics can be loaded with ingredients that aren’t safe and we ought not put on our skin. A recent study, for example, showed there was lead in over 50% of lipsticks tested.

Surely there can’t be lead in our lipsticks? Isn’t lead really dangerous? Yes it is, but sadly the FDA doesn’t require cosmetics companies to show that their products are safe to use. It’s the same with anti aging and skin care products.

And yet for those of us using cosmetics we are putting them into our systems just as if they were drugs. When you apply a cosmetic product like a lipstick or a blush our a rouge some of that products ends up inside of us.

And it goes in because our skin is porous and what goes on mostly goes in and ends up in our bodes. That’s fine it the ingredients are harmless but lead? That’s not harmless.

And there’s a new study now which suggests that there are good reason why our teenage girls should be using safe cosmetics rather than the big brand dangerous cosmetics that so many use now. Here’s a quote from the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics.

“Laboratory tests reveal adolescent girls across America are contaminated with chemicals commonly used in cosmetics and body care products.”

Now isn’t that scary? And it’s worse than you’d imagine, and if you’re a parent of teenage girls who use cosmetics, (and which girls don’t) it’s really scary.

The Environmental Working Group found chemicals from 4 different families of chemicals (phthalates, parabens, triclosan and musks) in the urine of girls between the ages of 14 and 20 who were tested in the study.

Some of these chemicals were found in the urine of every single girl tested.

And teenage girls are growing very fast, so the last thing they need is to be adding nasty chemicals to their bodies.

Most of these chemicals are hormone altering and so our teenage girls are taking a big risk at a time when they shouldn’t by using these toxic chemicals in their cosmetics.

What will be the result of these possible risks to the reproductive health of young girls? Who knows, but I for one don’t want my daughter to find out.

There seem to be risks to our girls but no one really knows the possible consequences.

That’s a matter of concern for parents and girls, but there are alternatives. There are excellent companies making safe cosmetics and safe skin care products that work very well indeed and don’t contain dangerous ingredients. So no risks to our daughters.

Unfortunately these companies are small niche companies unable to compete with the big brand names, and they don’t even try to compete. You’ll never find them advertising on TV for example. And you’re unlikely to find their products in the department stores either.

But if you search you can find small companies making excellent and safe cosmetics and also safe natural skin care products that are extremely good, and better quality than the big brands.

So don’t take risks with your daughters health. Use top shelf safe cosmetics and highly effective skin care products and make sure you or your daughter aren’t using products with dangerous ingredients in them.

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It Makes Sense To Use A Moisturizer With Sunscreen Deosn’t It?

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

Sunburn is bad for your skin, so should you use a moisturizer with sunscreen?

But the answer may not be quite what you thought it might be.

It’s totally clear though that sunburn is really bad for your skin.

If you want to guarantee older looking skin with all the symptoms of aging skin like dryness, sagging, wrinkles and more, just get a sunburned face regularly from an early age.

Then there’s skin cancer to consider too.

So that means that it makes total sense to use a moisturizer with sunscreen with an spf as high as possible.

Well no, but that doesn’t mean that getting sunburned is fine.

Why isnt it a good idea to use a moisturizer with an spf factor? Because there is evidence that the daily use of sunscreens can be dangerous to your health, and even some suggestion that daily use of an spf moisturizer could lead to cancer.

That’s not to say that it’s proven, but it is certainly suspected by many scientists. Now if you use a sunscreen for, say, 5 or 6 times a year, then the risk is a little lower. But if you use a moisturizer with sunscreen added chances are you’re going to be using it daily, so you’re using a sunscreen daily.

There’s different types of sunscreens. There are sunscreens that work in 2 different ways. There are those that stay on the surface of your skin, and those that work within your skin once they soak in. Those that stay on the surface are sunscreens with either zinc or titanium.

If you’re using a sunscreen that soaks in then some of it will get into your blood. And the skin care products and moisturizers with sunscreen use the type that soaks in because it looks and feels better that way.

Spf factor is produced by use of synthetic chemicals, and its always a concern getting synthetic chemicals into your bloodstream.

And theres another factor to consider. If you block the sun to your face daily you can suffer from a deficiency of vitamin D, because the sun on our skin helps our vitamin D supply. Studies have shown that up to 60% of Americans are vitamin D deficient, though not necessarily all from sunscreen use.

So what should you do?

Use the highest quality moisturizer possible, without sunscreen in it. The manufacturer of the worlds very best moisturizers and skin care products specifically doesn’t add a sunscreen to their products for all the reasons I’ve mentioned.

And wait till there’s a day when you really think you need a spf factor, then use a sunscreen with either zinc or titanium. On other days you won’t need one, and then you can stock up on that vitamin D.

Visit my website to find out more about the best skin care products that don’t have any sunscreen.

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Where Can I Find A List Of The Best To Worst Skin Care Products?

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

One of the biggest question women ask about skin care products is “which are the best to worst skin care products”?

So today I thought I would deal with this question, but perhaps not give quite the answer that you might expect. I’m not going to give you a list of the best skin care products listing the best to worst skin care products 1 to 10.

That’s because I don’t believe that women who are asking themselves which is the best skin care products are asking the right question. There is a more important question to ask before you select a skin care range.

The preliminary question you should ask is one which almost no women ask themselves.

The question is which are the SAFEST skin care products?

SAFEST? You can’t be suggesting that skin care products are unsafe to use can you?

Well sadly safety has a lot to do with skin care products, and should be considered before any question of finding the best (or worst) skin care products. You see many big brand name skin care products contain ingredients that are suspect or downright dangerous. And so do many well known cosmetics, personal and body care and beauty products.

One quick example.

A recent study found lead in over 50% of big brand lipsticks tested.

And yes, you’re right, it’s really bad to get lead into our bodies. And there’s lead in big name lipsticks that you may even be using today. There’s lots more examples of dangerous ingredients in skin care and anti aging products and cosmetics and personal care products, that’s just one.

It’s so bad that entire organizations have now been set up to combat this problem with dangerous ingredients in anti aging skin care products and cosmetics and more.

How can this happen? Because the FDA is not required to police any of the ingredients that go into these products, so the big companies can put whatever they want in there. Many ingredients used in products in the US are banned in Europe.

And of course big companies care so much for you health don’t they? Just look at how much the cigarette companies care.

So before you ask yourself which are the best to worst skin care products you should be asking which are the safest skin care products. Because the best skin care products are only the best if they are safe.

There are some excellent natural skin care products available. They can be made from extracts from plants, or from the wool of sheep, or seaweed perhaps. But only from ingredients known to be safe.

And the company that makes the best skin care products in the world has actually made a commitment to it’s customers that it will only use ingredients in it’s products that are safe enough to eat.

So sorry, for those looking for a list of the best to worst skin care products, I haven’t produced a list. And anyway most of the big name products (apart from being unsafe to use) wouldn’t be on it anyway, most do very little. Strangely it’s unlikely that you’ve even heard of the company that makes the best skin care products, and they even back up the quality of their products with a money back guaranteed, so you can try risk free.

Visit my website to find out who they are.

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I Need A List Of The Best To Worst Skin Care Products.

Friday, March 6th, 2009

Many women looking to buy skin care products are asking themselves “which are the best to worst skin care products”?

So today I thought I would deal with this question, but perhaps not give quite the answer that you might expect. I’m not going to give you a list of the best skin care products listing the best to worst skin care products 1 to 10.

That’s because I don’t believe that women who are asking themselves which is the best skin care products are asking the right question. There is a more important question to ask before you select a skin care range.

The FIRST and most important question that you should ask, and one which we suspect that 90% or more of women never think of is this.

The question is which are the SAFEST skin care products?

SAFEST?? How can skin care products be unsafe? What does safety have to do with skin care products?

Well sadly safety has a lot to do with skin care products, and should be considered before any question of finding the best (or worst) skin care products. You see many big brand name skin care products contain ingredients that are suspect or downright dangerous. And so do many well known cosmetics, personal and body care and beauty products.

Here’s a quick example. It relates to cosmetics, but it’s the same for skin care and anti aging products too.

A study conducted only recently on big brand name lipsticks found lead in over 50% of them.

And yes, you’re right, it’s really bad to get lead into our bodies. And there’s lead in big name lipsticks that you may even be using today. There’s lots more examples of dangerous ingredients in skin care and anti aging products and cosmetics and personal care products, that’s just one.

The problem is so bad that there are now entire organizations set up to combat dangerous ingredients in cosmetics and skin care and anti aging and body care, personal and beauty products.

How is this possible. It’s because the FDA doesn’t have to check the ingredients found in these products for safety, so whatever the big companies want to put in they can. And there are many ingredients used in these products that are banned in Europe.

And big business doesn’t have a fine record of caring for the health of their customers where there is money to be made, just look at the record of the tobacco companies.

So before asking yourself about the best to worst skin care products you should be searching for the safest skin care products. Because the best skin care products can’t be the best unless they are safe to use.

And it’s possible to get excellent natural skin care products that are safe and source ingredients from such places as plants or seaweeds or the wool of sheep. All known to be safe for people to use.

And there is one company that makes the worlds best skin care products. They make natural skin care products using ingredients that are sourced from plants, and seaweeds and the wool of sheep, and all safe to use.

So if you’re looking for the worlds best skin care products we haven’t produced a list for you, sorry. Most big names you would expect to be on the list aren’t safe to use, (and most do very little either, so they wouldn’t be on the list regardless). In fact the best skin care products are made by a company that you’ve probably never heard of, and they back up their products with a money back guarantee.

Visit my website to find out who they are.

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Don’t Mix Unsafe Cosmetics And Teenage Girls

Friday, March 6th, 2009

You might be unaware that there are dangerous ingredients in many big brand name cosmetics, and a new study is showing that this might be affecting teenage girls.

Our big brand cosmetics can be loaded with ingredients that aren’t safe and we ought not put on our skin. A recent study, for example, showed there was lead in over 50% of lipsticks tested.

Isn’t lead really dangerous? Yes it is and it shouldn’t be in our lipsticks, but the FDA doesn’t regulate it so it’s there. And it’s the same with skin care products and anti aging products and personal and body care and beauty products too.

And yet for those of us using cosmetics we are putting them into our systems just as if they were drugs. When you apply a cosmetic product like a lipstick or a blush our a rouge some of that products ends up inside of us.

That’s because our skin is porous and what we put onto it soaks in and ends up in our bodies rather than just on our skin. Moisturizers, for example, are rubbed in a disappear. Where do they go but into our system? Ok if they are harmless, but what if they’re not?

And now a new study has begun to ask whether our teenage daughters should be using some cosmetics. The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics tells us the results of the study.

“Laboratory tests reveal adolescent girls across America are contaminated with chemicals commonly used in cosmetics and body care products.”

Now isn’t that scary? And it’s worse than you’d imagine, and if you’re a parent of teenage girls who use cosmetics, (and which girls don’t) it’s really scary.

And now there’s a study by the Environmental Working Group which found suspect chemicals (phthalates, parabens, triclosan and musks) in the urine of young girls from 14 to 20 who took part in the study.

Some of these were found in the body of every single girls tested in the study.

Now of course a teenage girl is growing fast and dealing with hormonal changes and they don’t need to be adding toxic chemicals to their bodies.

These chemicals are considered to be capable of altering hormones, and so I wonder how many teenage girls using cosmetics and skin care products and possibly acne products know that they are taking a risk with their hormones at this time.

No one knows what the implications are but it’s an area of reproductive health that we shouldn’t be playing with.

If there are risks to our kids using dangerous cosmetics or skin care products or others then they shouldn’t be using them.

That’s a matter of concern for parents and girls, but there are alternatives. There are excellent companies making safe cosmetics and safe skin care products that work very well indeed and don’t contain dangerous ingredients. So no risks to our daughters.

But these niche companies are very small, and can’t compete with the big brand names on marketing, so you won’t see their ads on TV or their products on the shelves of your local store.

But if you search you can find small companies making excellent and safe cosmetics and also safe natural skin care products that are extremely good, and better quality than the big brands.

So don’t play Russian Roulette with your daughters health. Find some top shelf natural cosmetics and natural skin care products that don’t contain dangerous chemicals.

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