Ranae Pritchard asked:
Are your skin care products hype-worthy? Here are three simple tests you can apply to see if your daily ritual is truly wonderful or incredibly worthless.
The current crop of popular skin care products that are available simply don’t live up to the marketing hype that the cosmetics companies give them. What they advertise as being the best skin care products don’t contain the types of ingredients that you need to have in order to make a dramatic change in your appearance.
Ever been ****** into a celebrity-studded commercial? Ever been fooled into thinking that just maybe these celebrities actually use the same stuff you do? That perhaps it isn’t the big-fat check that has them promoting Olay, but a deeper commitment to “help me find the best skin care products”.
Fantasies are nice…but here in the real world that’s called effective marketing. These companies give you the feeling that they are truly concerned about the state of your skin, and want to do everything that they can in order to help.
Enter reality.
Certainly these skin care products contain one or two ingredients that are very good for your skin, and that could possibly be of great benefit to you. That is if they weren’t submersed in a wealth of chemical agents that have already been proven to cause long-term physical harm.
I guess discussing the harmful effects of dioxane, mineral oils, and parabens doesn’t classify as “effective marketing”. Why include these ingredients at all? Because they are C-H-E-A-P, cheap. (And they’ve got celebrities to pay!)
If the label read, for example…1,4-dioxane, a synthetic derivative of coconut identified by the State of California to cause cancer.. Would you buy it? I doubt it. You’d put it nicely back on the shelf.
So, in the midst of goobly-gook labels that give you headaches to read, how do you know which products are truly the best skin care products FOR YOUR SKIN?
First, skin care products should never contain harmful ingredients. The formulas should be ecologically-based, meaning all their ingredients should be derived from all-natural substances like plants, algae, or in the case of the much-acclaimed CynergyTK, from wool extracts.
Second, they should contain high levels of these acclaimed natural substances. Higher amounts will give your skin better benefits.
Third, the best skin care products will contain a keratin protein mixture, which are known collectively as Functional Keratin. These proteins are responsible for the formation of new cells within the skin that dramatically increase the production of a person’s collagen and elastin. This kind of healthy ingredient is what belongs in a skin care cream. It is ESSENTIAL for smooth skin.
Do your skin care products pass these hype-worthy tests?
In my experience, you won’t find the big companies investing their dollars into these natural ingredients and formulations (it’s so much easier to call a Hollywood agent!). So, if you want to feed your skin the healthy “food” it so-desperately craves, look for the smaller companies to pull through for you.
You can read about my journey to discover these companies, and more about the ingredient “no-no’s” and “gotta have it’s” at my website hyperlinked below.
Are your skin care products hype-worthy? Here are three simple tests you can apply to see if your daily ritual is truly wonderful or incredibly worthless.
The current crop of popular skin care products that are available simply don’t live up to the marketing hype that the cosmetics companies give them. What they advertise as being the best skin care products don’t contain the types of ingredients that you need to have in order to make a dramatic change in your appearance.
Ever been ****** into a celebrity-studded commercial? Ever been fooled into thinking that just maybe these celebrities actually use the same stuff you do? That perhaps it isn’t the big-fat check that has them promoting Olay, but a deeper commitment to “help me find the best skin care products”.
Fantasies are nice…but here in the real world that’s called effective marketing. These companies give you the feeling that they are truly concerned about the state of your skin, and want to do everything that they can in order to help.
Enter reality.
Certainly these skin care products contain one or two ingredients that are very good for your skin, and that could possibly be of great benefit to you. That is if they weren’t submersed in a wealth of chemical agents that have already been proven to cause long-term physical harm.
I guess discussing the harmful effects of dioxane, mineral oils, and parabens doesn’t classify as “effective marketing”. Why include these ingredients at all? Because they are C-H-E-A-P, cheap. (And they’ve got celebrities to pay!)
If the label read, for example…1,4-dioxane, a synthetic derivative of coconut identified by the State of California to cause cancer.. Would you buy it? I doubt it. You’d put it nicely back on the shelf.
So, in the midst of goobly-gook labels that give you headaches to read, how do you know which products are truly the best skin care products FOR YOUR SKIN?
First, skin care products should never contain harmful ingredients. The formulas should be ecologically-based, meaning all their ingredients should be derived from all-natural substances like plants, algae, or in the case of the much-acclaimed CynergyTK, from wool extracts.
Second, they should contain high levels of these acclaimed natural substances. Higher amounts will give your skin better benefits.
Third, the best skin care products will contain a keratin protein mixture, which are known collectively as Functional Keratin. These proteins are responsible for the formation of new cells within the skin that dramatically increase the production of a person’s collagen and elastin. This kind of healthy ingredient is what belongs in a skin care cream. It is ESSENTIAL for smooth skin.
Do your skin care products pass these hype-worthy tests?
In my experience, you won’t find the big companies investing their dollars into these natural ingredients and formulations (it’s so much easier to call a Hollywood agent!). So, if you want to feed your skin the healthy “food” it so-desperately craves, look for the smaller companies to pull through for you.
You can read about my journey to discover these companies, and more about the ingredient “no-no’s” and “gotta have it’s” at my website hyperlinked below.
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