Did you know that an average woman can absorb up to five pounds of chemical compounds from her skincare products every year? That is the shocking statistic from The Chemical Safe Skincare Research group. We will probably use up to twelve personal care products every day and that means that ...

If you are about to go on a natural skin care shopping spree, you may be worried about how to sort through all the publicity and the glowing testimonials. Here are five tips to help you get through the jungle so that you do not need to spend a fortune.

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Here are three tips for choosing the top natural skin care products. First of all, the word natural does not necessarily mean that. I have picked up so many products which have these so called natural ingredients but noticed that they were listed alongside some of the nasty chemicals which ...

It is a shocking fact that of the 10,000 different personal care products on the market to-day, only about 11% have actually passed safety tests. That is because they contain a mix of parabens, sulphates, triclosan, toulene and the dreaded diethanolamine (DEA) chemicals and various other sy...

What do flowers, herbs, fruits, nuts and milk have in common? Well, these are the organic materials from which organic natural skin care derives its raw material. If products are really organic, then there will be no nasty chemicals used in their processing and there will be much safer prod...

Why should you even bother about an oil free anti-aging facial moisturizer? They are all the same and you are probably a little skeptical by now. The problem is to avoid certain types of oils and to find the products which have the right kind. Let me explain.

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It is shocking when you find out that 99% of skincare ingredients have not passed their safety test! This is not to say that they are all potentially harmful to our health, but we should err on the side of safety. We do know however that about 75% of all the ingredients are suspect. What do...

Lots of companies are now advertising fragrance free products and this is a fact which will you will notice as soon as you start looking at body moisturizer reviews. I wonder why?

Synthetic chemicals are bad news

The answer is very simple and it has to do with our health and...

It is a shocking fact that most consumers of skincare products think that elastin in skin CAN be replaced by applying a topical gel or cream. This is not correct. The second thing they are unaware of is that any elastin cream is usually sourced from animals or birds. It seems incredible tha...

When people ask me, how do collagen and elastin work on the skin, I usually tell them to forget about any products that contain these elements! They look a bit surprised and appear to be a bit skeptical to say the least when I tell them that the secret is to use OTHER ingredients which will...