Why You Should Always Choose Natural Skin Care Products

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Apr 192010
 

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As someone who takes a keen interest in skin care I naturally keep an eye on items in the news. Over the weekend I came across this piece:

“Lead on my lips and mercury on my eyelashes, carcinogenic and endocrine disruptive creams on my skin. We have a long history of doing dangerous things in the name of beauty. The Egyptians applied copper for skin tone, Romans used chalk. In the Middle Ages, Europeans covered faces with arsenic-laced powder and leaches to whiten skin. The EU has banned 1,110-plus ingredients in cosmetics, compared to only 10 in the US. With one-third of the products on shelves containing an ingredient linked to cancer, why do “beauty” companies continue to slather our faces and bodies with chemicals in the name of healthy skin?”

And further on I read:

“As one of 600 companies that signed the Compact for Safe Cosmetics, this body and cosmetic collection is vegan-friendly and doesn’t test on animals. There are no phthalates, parabens or artificial fragrance. It specializes in bioactive ingredients that have a “therapeutic effect on living tissue,” like magnolia which is an anti-inflammatory and pumpkin which acts as an anti-oxidant.”

This sounds just like Xtend-Life although it is in fact one of the other 600 companies mentioned above.

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Is Skin Care For Men A Taboo Subject?

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Apr 062010
 
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I’ve just found this article by Aparna Karthikeyan who takes a light hearted look at the way men view skin care.

“Look, I do not, as a rule, e-mail men and ask them what they like to do in the bathroom ? but, trust me, I did it only because of a recent tragic incident? A dear old friend went to a wedding all sunshine and smiles, but came back a broken man. Several people there had complimented him on his pretty daughter. And when, through clenched teeth, he explained it was his wife, a few men dug him in the ribs and said wasn’t he a lucky thing, married to this stunner half his age! Naturally, the friend was gutted? the wife was merely a few months his junior, but managed to knock decades off ? thanks partly to dewy good looks, but mostly to timely cosmetic interventions!”

“Why are men so far behind women when it comes to skin care?” she asks, but is unable to find an answer. Of course there are plenty of skin care products for men including those from Xtend-Life, but you can read the rest of her article by clicking this link.

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Should Skin Care Products Include Sunscreen?

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Apr 022010
 

Or to put the question the other way round “Why do all skincare products not contain a high SPF sunscreen?”. We are always being told that the main causes of damage to our skin are smoking and excessive exposure to the sun. So it obviously makes sense for sunscreen to be included in the skin care products that we use. Doesn’t it?

Well, it turns our that the answer is no, it does not. The reason is that what causes the skin damage is excessive exposure to the sun. The operative word is excessive by which is meant spending long periods outside in a hot summer sun. For the average person who works in an office building there is clearly no need for protection and using a sunscreen fulltime can actually be harmful.

Vitamin D is one of the essential requirements of a healthy body and the best source of this vitamin is sunlight. So walking in the sunshine is beneficial so long as the exposure is not excessive. In addition there are concerns that certain chemicals used in the manufacture of suncreams can be harmful so it makes sense to restrict their use to the times when you are outside in a strong sun.

So you can see that there is no need to include a sunscreen in skin care moisturizers and lotions. In fact it would be counter productive since it would block the natural way of acquiring vitamin D from sunlight.

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