There is no more important key to healthier, younger-looking skin, than treating it right. In fact, the best way to scare for your skin (and yourself) is by pampering it.
Pampering is more than just giving yourself some extra special treatment, it is essential. With constant exposure to sun, wind, environmental pollutants, and the elements, it is essential that the body lotion and creams that we use contain ingredients that will protect our delicate skin from the damage that prolonged exposure causes.
Although finding quality body creams that contain both protective and reparative ingredients can be a challenge, many do exist. However, with so many products available on the market, promising to be the best skin care product available, it becomes hard to know exactly where to begin.
Just because a product is expensive, does that mean that it is better?
Do the best skin care creams on the market contain collagen?
Should I only choose the line of body lotions and creams that are endorsed by my favorite celebrity? You must be thinking, “If she uses it… it must be the best.”
Every product has been marketed to vie for your attention and for your money.
Forget about all of that, and focus on one thing… the product labels. Choosing the right creams and lotions should be based on ingredients. You must focus on the ingredients that you want and the ingredients you don’t want. It is that simple.
The general rule, when it comes to lotions and body creams, is to avoid products that contain synthetic chemical ingredients as much as possible. Mineral oils, petrolatums, liquid parafin, parafin wax, parabens, dioxane, alcohol, ethanol, ethyl alcohol, methanol, benzyl alcohol, isopropyl alcohol, SD alcohol, and synthetic fragrances are contained in a large percentage of lotions and body creams currently on the market.
Although you may have used such creams containing those substances and have had desired results, such as smooth skin and lovely fragrances, the truth is that you are doing a lot of damage to your skin. Such synthetic and chemical ingredients are preventing your skin from breathing and naturally eliminating toxins because they tend to block your pores. Even though you smell good after you use the product, the chemicals that created the fragrance that you love will ultimately reach your bloodstream and expose your body to danger.
Instead, it is important to choose products that contain ingredients that are designed to nourish your skin and stimulate the skin cell’s own reparative abilities, because nature designed the skin to be capable of fixing itself, even in fighting the effects of modern society. However, nature can always use a little extra help and that is where natural ingredients come in.
For truly healthy skin, it is important to find products that contain natural plant and vegetable-based oils derived from natural sources, such as avocado and macadamia. Vitamin E, natural enzymes (coenzymeQ10), keratin, and kelp extract are natural substances that will work on the cellular level to fight damaging free radicals and work to promote your skin’s own collagen production.
