Monday, December 14, 2009

Run If You See Petrolatum In Your Anti Wrinkle Cream

By Peter Geraldson

I'm sure you know that there are hundreds or thousands of anti aging products such as anti aging creams and anti aging moisturizers on the market. Most don't work very well however there is a more serious worry about many anti aging creams. Lots of them contain chemical ingredients and these can be damaging to your health. A fine example is one petrochemical ingredient called petrolatum.

Vaseline is pure petrolatum. It can also go by the name of petroleum jelly, petroleum wax, white petroleum or white petrolatum or other names. It is a petrochemical product which means that it is a byproduct of the distillation of crude oil.

The Cosmetic Safety Database is an organisation tasked with examining many of the ingredients found in our cosmetics, skin care and anti aging products and it describes petrolatum has being linked to cancer as well as being linked to non reproductive toxicity and product contamination. It is the product contamination that is extremely worrying. In various manufacturing processes petrolatum can be contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs. These are seriously worrying, highly toxic and linked to cancer.

There's many companies making anti aging products such as anti wrinkle creams which do not test for the presence of PAHs in their products and do not list them on the label.

If petrolatum and PAHs pose a risk to your health why are they used in products such as skin care products, anti aging moisturizers and anti wrinkle creams? There is one simple answer. Petrolatum is incredibly cheap. The cheaper the ingredients the more profit they make on the products. The FDA isn't required to find out whether any of these ingredients are in the products and they don't. The anti aging companies are able to get away with it so they do.

There are excellent alternatives available. Natural ingredients that are known to be effective at improving skin health and which are also very safe but they are much more expensive and so are rarely used. Chemical ingredients are usually much cheaper.

But there are excellent natural skin care products such as anti wrinkle creams and anti aging moisturizers that do use these ingredients. These products are highly effective however are much more expensive to manufacture and therefore, if the companies that make them work to advertise them, they would be far too expensive and uncompetitive for you to buy.

The small skin care companies that produce these products cannot advertise them for this reason and so they are not commonly known despite the fact that they are extremely high quality products. For this reason it's unlikely that you've even heard of them.

So the good news is that there are excellent anti aging products such as anti wrinkle creams and if you look on the label you won't see petrolatum or any other chemical or petrochemical ingredients listed there. They are high quality products with much more expensive high quality ingredients and they work well.

If you'd like to find out who makes these products then visit my website. - 14130

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