Cosmetic Ingredients
When it comes to beauty products, the ingredients label is the only part of the packaging that has useful information, not the brand. The cosmetic ingredients alert you to potential irritating and toxic ingredients such as citrus oils or propylparaben (just a few exapmples of the many toxic ingredients found in beauty products). All of us have different skin types, that must be put into consideration when you are shopping for your beauty products. Pore clogging ingredients such as cocoa butter, and lanolin could lead to black heads and acne if you have normal, to oily skin. You dont need to be a chemist to decode your cosmetics, check out our list of beauty vitamins, good product ingredients, and toxic ingredients, you should soon feel very relieved and confident after you gain the knowledge of all the good and bad listed in the proucts you are about to purchase, and those you have tucked in your cabnets.
The Label
As on food labels, ingredients that make up the largest percentage of a product are listed first. Past the halfway point, the amount of any ingredient listed is negligible. If a product lists collagen, royal jelly, or aloe vera on its label but doesent require refrigeration, dont waste your money: eaither the amount is minuscule, or it has been pasturized past the point of effectiveness. Cosmetic companies jealously gaurd their secret ingredients from competitors for as long as they can. Occasionally, the FDA grants a company "trade secret status," which means those secret ingredients dont have to appear on the label. When you see the phrase "..... and other ingredients," beware. There's no way to guess what suprises you may be in for.
Fragrance
Horribly, the majority of women shopping for thier beauty products pay more attention to the marketing claims than the ingedients themselves. If something sounds too good to be true, it usually is. The claims "fragrance free," "natural," and "hypoallergenic," mean absoulty nothing in the beauty business. The majority of skincare products smell bad in the lab, because they're loaded with chemicals and raw ingredients. So manufacturers do scent them-not to make them smell good, but just to make them not smell bad. So "fragrance-free" only means free of all perceptiible fragrance. The FDA has never spelled out exactly what "hypoallergenic" means. As a result, some cosmetic companies test their products for allergic reactions, but many do not. The most misleading claim is "dermatologist-tested"-which means that there was a dermatologist within a 5 or 10 mile radius of the testing center who may or may not have looked at the beauty product.
Allot of products are NOT tested for Safety
When you pull a cosmetic product off the drugstore shelf, you probably assume that it's been tested, monitored, and regulated for safety and effectiveness. Well, it may or may not have been. Since the FDA spends only about one percent of its budget to monitor the entire beauty industry, the industry has remained largely "self-regulated." In other words, while in theory there are industry stanndards to uphold and truthh-in-advertising rules to adhere to, in actual practice cosmetics manufacturers are free to say and do almost anything to sell their products. So before you glaze on that “wrinkle-reducing” cream, or swallow a “skin-rejuvenating”vitamin, find out what’s in your health and beauty products, with the help of our resources you should be . This valid and authentic site gives you the facts you need to protect yourself, and your family from potentialy harmful irritants, tricky chemical names, and the exaggerated claims of gimmicky additives.
