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 Top 3 Most Harmful Ingredients for Skin #3 offender: Alcohol Some brands who claim that their water-based products (anything with water in it) are free of preservatives are anything but! Alcohol is well known to be a good medium for preservation, and in high concentrations, it works well to prevent the growth of bacteria. However, that’s where the benefit stops. While alcohol may be a great medium to preserve specimens, for living tissue like your skin, it is sensitizing and irritating. It causes redness and dryness used in concentrations as a preservative agent in skin care. Sometimes it is used in toners to dry out the skin to make it appear temporarily matte, however, the dryness will trigger the skin to produce more sebum. That’s why toners with alcohol cannot “cure” large pores or “close pores”. What you don’t see is the damage it can cause with daily use. Drying out skin with alcohol can even aggravate those with acne and oily skin, causing flaky, itchy skin. If you suffer from redness or rosacea, using alcohol to “cool” the skin is not the way to go. You’re better off using cool water than to use something as astringent as alcohol to do the job. The most dangerous products are those with alcohol as a preservative (usually in the early or middle of the ingredients list) claiming to be a natural product that’s preservative-free and making consumers feel that the product is safe for skin. Note: Don’t confuse ingredients like “cetearyl alcohol” or “cetyl alcohol” with true alcohol as these are benign waxes. The ones you should look out for are: methanol, ethyl alcohol, ethanol, benzyl alcohol #2 offender: Colour The only time colour should be on your face is if you’re wearing makeup. Otherwise, pearly, shimmery, fluro or unnaturally coloured creams and lotions should not be part of your skin care. Artificially coloured skin care (especially the ones you get in those Christmas pamper packs) are notoriously known to cause skin irritation. Itches, rashes, scabs from scratching and redness are just some of the reactions people get from pigment in their skin care. Remember, it might look pretty in the bottle or jar, but it doesn’t look pretty if you slap that on your skin every day. Also, colouring is unnecessary in skin care. Manufacturers do so for the marketing appeal and to match their branding/packaging. If you see purple coloured creams, green lotions and pink scrubs, avoid them like the plague for the health of your skin (especially if it’s going to be used on children’s skin). The colourants were not placed there to help your skin, they were put there to make you buy the stuff. #1 offender: Fragrance This one gets my goat every time. Not that I have anything against fragrance, but I know it is unnecessary in skin care – whether you have sensitive skin or not. If you want fragrance, wear perfume on your wrists or clothes, otherwise, your face cream doesn’t need to smell like an Eau de toilette. Fragrance is the number one skin sensitizer in skin care - out pacing both colour and alcohol in terms of health complaints and skin reactions. So if you have a rash after using a new cream or lotion, it could very well be the fragrance. Peer-reviewed journals reveal that many fragrances can cause asthma, headaches and nausea – which isn’t surprising given that the olfactory receptors are located in an area of the nose that contains many blood vessels, and chemicals may be absorbed into the bloodstream through the vessels which then enter the brain via the blood-brain-barrier. With no legal labelling requirements, many potentially carcinogenic compounds and fixatives used in perfumes are not disclosed and therefore, isn’t traceable. Some compounds also contain endocrine (hormone) disruptors. If you have sensitive skin, be vigilant about keeping your skin care stash as fragrance-free as possible to eliminate any sources that may trigger redness, itching or pain. If you have kids, don’t be foolish and tempted to buy that hot pink glittery bubble bath that smells like a candy factory exploded in it. That cocktail of marketer’s-ingredients-for-a-good-sell is likely to cause some damage to your child’s delicate, more permeable skin. Fragrance ingredients to look out for: perfume, parfum, fragrance, scent, aroma. Copyright Cyren Organics 
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