The Best Anti Aging Tip Is To Buy Fragrance Free.
Monday, March 29th, 2010My very best anti aging tip is one you might not have thought of, but which is very important. The single best anti aging tip is to keep your body healthy. And one of the things that you can do to help stay healthy is to avoid mainstream beauty products such as cosmetics and anti aging products which often contain chemicals that can damage your health.
Why is the best anti aging tip to stay healthy? Because staying healthy means that your body will show it. Your body, and your skin, reflect your overall state of health and if you’re state of health is poor then your skin will probably be poor as well. It’s very hard to have great looking glowing skin if the rest of your body is unhealthy.
And although it may seem strange to say it, particularly if this is the first time that you’ve heard about this, one of the things that can damage your health is to use mainstream anti-aging products. This is because they are laden with man-made chemicals, many of which are known to be bad for us, and in some cases are known to cause cancer. These ingredients have nothing to do with good anti aging skin care.
I want to look at a range of chemical ingredients that are commonly found in so many anti aging and personal and beauty products today. Fragrances. Just about every personal products including anti aging skin products that you see mass marketed today contain some form of fragrance.
I can almost hear you asking what is the problem with fragrances? Surely fragrances make me smell nice and there’s nothing wrong with smelling nice is there? Don’t they come from distilled flower petals or something like that?
I know it’s bad news but fragrances, in many cases, are just another chemical designed in the laboratory to smell nice. But there still just chemicals and some of them can damage your health. And if you try to find out which chemical fragrances are in your products you often can’t from looking at the label because the manufacturers are allowed to use such general terms as “fragrances” to protect their “secret formulas”.
Lets have a look at some of the problems with fragrances in mainstream skin care and anti-aging products.
1. There’s a range of chemical fragrances that are used in products in the US but which are banned in Europe. The European Union’s scientific committee on cosmetic products and non-food products has found in studies that somewhere around 2 out of 100 people can become sensitised to fragrances and this can lead to allergic reactions and may even damage their immune system.
2. Chemical fragrances are known to be amongst the top allergens leading to a range of different allergies in people who are subject to them including asthma.
3. In 1986 in the US the National Academy of Sciences found that there were some fragrances that they could identify as being a potential neurotoxin, and which could potentially cause brain damage.
There’s more, but I’m sure you get the idea. Mainstream anti-ageing products, as well is a host of other products such as cosmetics and personal and beauty products, contain chemical ingredients that may be damaging to your health. This includes chemical fragrances.
Now you might be seeing why our best anti aging tip is to stay healthy, and part of that is avoiding mainstream personal and beauty products such as anti aging products and cosmetics. Looking good is important, and if you’re healthy on the inside you look better and feel better anyway.
Filling yourself up with artificial chemicals like chemical fragrances can have the exact opposite effect to what you really want to achieve, being healthy and feeling good on the inside and looking good on the outside.
Fortunately the good news is that there are small companies that manufacture high quality natural skin care products who recognize the problem with chemical ingredients such as fragrances and to seek to manufacture high quality products with no fragrances or other dangerous chemical ingredients. Often these small companies struggle to compete with the marketing budgets of the big name players that probably make the anti aging products you may have in your cupboard right now.
So remember our best anti aging tip. Stay healthy as long as you can and you’ll look good and feel good, and the big part of staying healthy is avoiding modern anti aging products containing chemical ingredients such as fragrance.
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