Monday, November 30, 2009

Are There Good Reasons Why You Should Use A Natural Moisturizer?

By Peter Albertonach

Natural moisturizers and other natural skin care products make up the fastest growing segment of the skin care and anti aging market, and for good reasons. There are powerful reasons why more and more consumers are turning to natural skin products that are, in most cases, more effective than the products that you may be familiar with now, and which may also be safer. Lets examine the reasons to use a natural moisturizer.

Modern well-known moisturizers, as well as so many other modern skin care and anti aging products, contain many petrochemical and chemical ingredients. Mineral oil is a good example.

Mineral oil is a petrochemical product which is found in hundreds if not thousands of moisturizing products. According to the cosmetic safety database it is linked to cancer, allergies and immunotoxicity, bioaccumulation and skin irritation, to quote a few. Mineral oil is used in so many anti aging skin care products because it is incredibly cheap.

Mineral oil has no moisturizing properties. It is used to coat the skin with a film of oil with the expectation that this will prevent moisture loss. Whilst this is effective it means that the user risks all the health concerns previously mentioned and also increases the risk of acne.

There is a wide range of naturally occurring ingredients which are extremely effective as natural skin moisturizers. Ingredients such as olive oil, shea butter and macadamia nut oil as well as many others are all known to be excellent natural moisturizers. However they are rarely used in mainstream anti aging skin care products because they are much more expensive than the chemical alternatives.

This is becoming more well-known and this is why there is a move away from chemical laden skin care products towards natural skin care products such as natural moisturizers which use safer and more effective natural ingredients.

Some consumers choose to source these natural moisturizers in their raw state and use them as they are. Whilst some can be found in their raw state others cannot and it can be difficult and messy to make up your own body moisturizer or facial moisturizer like this.

But there are companies, usually small niche skin care company, which recognise the opportunity in this problem and who choose to manufacture natural skin care products with known safe and effective natural ingredients. These companies produce excellent products such as natural moisturizers which are very effective.

However if these natural ingredients are very expensive should we not conclude that the products in which they are used are also very expensive? That in fact is not the case. There is one simple reason. These small companies choose to direct their budget towards product quality rather than towards marketing. They do not advertise on television and therefore do not need to factor the cost of television advertising into the price of the product and are therefore able to produce a price competitive product. Often they include a money back guarantee.

So as you can see there are very strong reasons for this powerful and growing movement away from chemical laden anti aging skin care products advertised on TV. The movement is towards natural skin care products which are both safe and effective to use.

However because these companies rarely advertise the chances are very good that you won't know the names of their products. This is common however when consumers try the products they are routinely surprised at how effective these products are and mostly become lifetime customers.

So if you're beginning to understand the problems with modern chemical anti aging products and you're looking for a good natural moisturizer that is both safe and high quality then visit my website to find out where these products may be sourced. - 14130

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