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Why Choose Organic Skin Care?

It really excites us as a company that manufactures organic skin care that there has been an explosion recently in the use of words such as “natural” and “organic” and “pure” in the health, wellness and beauty industry. This is due mainly to the global community becoming so much more educated and environmentally aware.
The downside is that many companies are now using these words as supposedly true claims about their products and they use this new consumer awareness to their advantage to reinvent their existing skin care and cosmetic ranges to include a natural and/or organic element.
So how can you be sure you are getting a ‘genuinely’ natural or organic skin care product and how can you tell the difference??

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Ingredients like Aloe Vera are added at under 1% JUST so the name can go on it but at that ratio it has little to no positive effect on the actual skin..

What you find in a high percentage of these new ‘natural’ ranges is maybe one or two additional natural ingredients. Aloe Vera, Shea butter or Lavender, for example, are added at an extremely low percentage (in most cases less than 2%) and then companies are calling their new product ‘Natural body lotion with Aloe Vera and Lavender’.
The existing ingredients, which make up 95% of the product, are usually the same old petrochemicals, sulphates and parabens found in the original range. The hard part for consumers is being able to tell the difference between a genuine natural product and a fake.
Some of the claims made by supporters of natural ingredients and organic skin care products about using these synthetic ingredients on your skin can be quite frightening and sometimes severe. You might be wondering what the real issue is because you have been using them for years and have had no adverse reactions yourself? It has only been in recent research that experts have found a link between regularly using these types of ingredients on your skin and society’s increased rate of allergies, asthma and skin conditions like dermatitis and eczema.
Also as a side note – don’t ever feel guilty about something you weren’t even aware of. Its only when you have the understanding and the awareness that you can be expected to consider making a change…
There are always going to be much cheaper options when using synthetic ingredients and when companies are mass producing products for sale in supermarkets, they need to add even more of these synthetic ingredients to ensure longer shelf life. There is absolutely no way those companies could justify the cost of using the natural ingredients and preservatives that we use in their mass production – they would never reclaim their costs.

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Ask the company you are buying your products off WHY they choose the ingredients they use… This will help you gain trust in them based on their reasons..

Another part that makes this difficult for consumers is the INCI names given to ingredients to be used on labeling. Most of the natural ingredients sound just as dangerous and chemical as their synthetic relatives. Afterall they are all chemicals at the end of the day – some are from a natural source and others not so much!

Seeing as though you are still reading this, we can assume you are someone who really cares about finding and using an authentic natural/organic skin care range and our advice to you is this – look into the company selling the natural range and the people behind it. Look into their philosophies and reasons for making/selling natural products and, most importantly, make sure you can tell that they are passionate about what they do.

Putting in the hours of research, planning, recipe writing, ingredient selection and location, practice cooking with sometimes disastrous results, more recipe writing….(phew!)…that goes into making an authentic natural organic skin care product takes REAL passion. For those of us who do it – we absolutely love it and wouldn’t want it any other way…

 

Till next time…

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