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Nutrient Combinations That Have A Big Impact On Your Health
Posted by Katherine Crawford, M.S. in Anti Aging on January 1, 2012
Would you like to take a single pill that could fix all of your health concerns? If so, you are not alone. In fact, supplement companies are aware of this and as a result, you are constantly bombarded with single-nutrient advertisements. But eating a wider variety of things is better here.
Unfortunately, advertising complete nutrition is not as profitable as advertising the next magic pill. But in reality, eating a wide combination of nutrients is what leads to maximum health.
Thus, without further delay, here are 4 nutrient synergies that you have to be aware of:
1. Vitamin D and calcium: Quite often, you may not be getting your daily recommended amount of calcium. And over the long run this may compromise your bone health. Now if you are getting small amounts of calcium in your diet, Vitamin D can help you absorb more.
2. Sodium and potassium: You most likely are having too much sodium day in and day out-it’s simply impossible to avoid unless you eat pure food and never go out. Fortunately, potassium can counter the negative effects of sodium by coaxing your kidneys to secrete more of it. And lower sodium translates into lower blood pressure.
3. Oysters and metal: Why do people claim that oysters are so good for you? Because they have zinc which is related to hormone production. Now zinc and copper (think “metal”) compete for the same absorption sites in your body. So make sure you don’t over supplement with either.
4. Niacin and tryptophan: Niacin truly is a wonder supplement since it can increase good cholesterol and decrease bad cholesterol. The main issue, however, is that you have to take very large doses of it to see an effect. Tryptophan can be converted into niacin. So a good way to prevent niacin shortages is by having lots of tryptophan.
Now the key here is to look at nutrition in terms of variety, not in terms of taking large doses of single nutrients.
And make sure you take action on this information sooner rather than later. After all, later usually never comes!
Highly sought after author, Katherine Crawford MS, a Harvard exercise physiologist and former flabby arms refugee, advises women on how to avoid an arm lift surgery. Learn how to get sexy and toned arms by exploring her personal website about minimizing fat arms without any delay!
Originally posted 2010-02-18 02:47:22. Republished by Old Post Promoter
At 40 You’re Beginning To Wonder What The Top Skin Care For 40 Year Old Women Is.
Posted by Peter Albertonach in skin care on December 11, 2011
You’re forty and you’ve finally realized why your mother was so interested in skin care. Perhaps you’re noticing for the first time that your daughters skin seems to be so much better than yours is now.
Now of course 40 isn’t that old but in skin terms the skin aging process is under way. You’re skin is aging and the results are visible.
But there’s more that you need to do than just looking for the top skin care products for 40 year old women. The first thing you need to do is to take all that advice that you’ve read for years about keeping healthy.
Because keeping healthy produces not just a healthy body but healthy skin as well. And healthy skin is good looking skin. You can’t have healthy skin if you smoke, you’re fat and unfit and live on burgers and pizza.
Sorry, I know that’s not good news but you need to make the effort to take care of your health and your health will take care of your skin.
Remember, smoking is about the single worst thing you can do for your skin. Just don’t smoke.
Don’t get burned. Sunburn is almost as bad for your skin as smoking, and can even give you skin cancer, something you definitely don’t want.
Make sure you eat plenty of good fresh vegetables and fruit as well and you’re giving your body and skin plenty of good vitamins and minerals and anti oxidants.
And although it may seem strange to link exercise and skin it is important to do plenty of exercise.
But there’s more needed than that. There are excellent skincare products for 40 year old women, though they are no different from the best skin care products for fifty year old women or the best skin care products for thirty year old women. They’re just the best skin care products period.
But if you start using great skin care products at 40 you’ve got a reasonable chance of stopping or even reversing some of the damage age has done to your skin. For example the gradual loss of collagen and elastin that you experience as you age is one of the biggest conditions that result in poor skin health, wrinkles, lines and sagging skin.
At forty you’ve got a good chance of combating this if you start now. At 60 or 70 you don’t. Because there are very good skin care products that really do work for forty year old women or anyone else, its just a case of how early you start to use them. The earlier the better.
So if 40 is in your past and you’ve started thinking more and more about finding the best skin care products for 40 year old women then if you follow that advice you’ll be way in front. Get healthy and start using the best skin care products.
Leave it too late and that’s just it, too late. Follow this advice to the letter and starting early and you’ll be way in front of women who leave it till their 50s or 60s.
And if you really want to find the worlds best skin care products then head over to my website.
Want to find the Natural Skin Care Products and learn more about Best Skin Care Products For Sixty Year Old Women? Visit Peter’s Website Natural Health-Natural Skin Care.
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Originally posted 2009-12-31 00:56:09. Republished by Old Post Promoter
You Don’t Need The Best Moisturizer. Here’s 4 Steps To Great Looking Well Moisturized Skin.
Posted by Peter Albertonach in skin care on November 16, 2011
Does that confuse you? Surly if you want great looking well moisturized skin you need to find the best moisturizer? No, and here’s why, and also here’s 4 steps to great looking skin that is also well moisturized skin.
There’s one way to have well moisturized great looking skin that doesn’t sag or feel dry, looks great, has few wrinkles and makes you feel great. It’s to have healthy skin. If your skin isn’t healthy skin no amount of using the best face moisturizer there is will make it like that.
I’ll repeat that. The way to well moisturized skin is to make sure your skin is healthy. Healthy skin is well moisturized skin just because, being healthy, it keeps itself moisturized. That’s just common sense. After all, babies have healthy well moisturized skin but don’t use moisturizers.
So should you be looking for the best moisturizer you can find or should you be looking for skin care products that target overall skin healthy and make your skin better like that? And is there some other things you can do to ensure healthy skin?
What else can you do to make your skin healthy other than using good quality skin care products?
Well there’s some simple stuff. Simple but not necessarily easily. There 4 things you need to do to have great looking healthy and well moisturized skin.
1. A good diet is essential to good health, and a healthy body makes for a healthy skin. It all goes together. You need to eat lots of fresh vegetables and fruits every single day, and your body, and skin, will be healthier.
2. You must exercise. Exercise is good for the body too, and gets the blood moving better. Better blood circulation is important for good skin health.
3. There’s 2 things you mustn’t do if you want to have great skin. Smoke or get sunburned. Both are just terrible for your skin, and no amount of skin moisturizing is ever going to repair the damage caused to your skin by smoking or excessive sunburn.
4. Use the best skin care products that are targeted to improving overall skin health as well as improving skin moisture by way of better skin health. There is no point in just moisturizing. You’re after great looking skin and moisturizing is only a part of it.
Yes the skin care products that moisturize better than any others aren’t in fact a moisturizer at all. They are products that include natural moisturizers that are better than the ingredients in the big brand name moisturizers, but they aren’t moisturizers. And so if you search the best moisturizers you won’t even find them.
So the best facial moisturizer isn’t really a moisturizer at all. And remember, there’s way more you can do to improve your skin than just using the best moisturizer.
Want to know more about the Natural Skin Care Products and about the best face moisturizer? Visit Peter’s Website Natural Health-Natural Skin Care.
Originally posted 2010-01-09 03:38:57. Republished by Old Post Promoter
What Does All Natural Skin Care Mean And Why Should It Matter To You?
Posted by Peter Albertonach in Anti Aging on October 20, 2011
As we age our skin ages with us and gradually we all begin to notice this and our thoughts turn to skin care. I would like to examine the problems inherent in modern anti aging products and find out why you need to know more about all natural skin care products.
Anti aging products are supposed to be good for us. They are supposed to reverse the effects of skin ageing and to reduce the visible results, namely wrinkles, skin sagging, fine lines, age spots and more. Using skin care products is supposed to be a positive in our life.
But unfortunately for many people the use of anti aging products is not a positive but a negative. There are many people who suffer negative health and skin reactions to the use of anti aging products, including skin problems like eczema and allergies. I research these types of problems because I saw it happen to a member of my own family.
And there is one simple reason for this, a reason that does not apply to all natural skin care products.
This is the reason. The big name brands of anti aging products that you see on the shelves every day contain many chemical ingredients, including petrochemicals, which are known to cause cancer as well as various forms of skin irritation and have other health implications.
I spend much of my time researching skin care products and looking at the health implications of many of the chemical ingredients which are used in them. For example just this morning I was reading the results of a study done on mice which has been published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology which concluded that the use of moisturizers containing sodium lauryl sulphate increase the risk of skin cancer in mice by 69 percent.
There’s hundreds or perhaps even thousands of studies that show that many of the nasty chemical ingredients found in so many modern anti aging products can be dangerous to your health. Parabens, sodium lauryl sulphate, mineral oil, fragrances and various petroleum products are so commonly found in so many anti aging products that you may use every day. And each of these chemical ingredients has been shown in studies to pose health risks to consumers.
There’s many excellent natural ingredients which are well known to be excellent for optimum skin health and which are also extremely safe and in many cases have been eaten by people for years. These ingredients are those used in all natural anti aging products.
Of course these natural ingredients are available to all skin care companies to use but there is massive amounts of money at stake in the skin care industry and the big companies compete ferociously on price. The natural alternatives, whilst being safe and effective, are expensive whilst ingredients like mineral oil and sodium lauryl sulphate are very cheap. Therefore by using these ingredients skin care companies can compete on price while still allowing enough budget for television advertising.
However this situation offers an opportunity to new players in the market, and to some older players, to develop products which take advantage of the growing awareness of the problem of chemical ingredients in anti aging products. These niche companies produce excellent all natural anti aging products using ingredients which are known to be safe and which are highly effective, and usually more so than the chemical ingredients used in the big brands.
If you choose wisely you really can find excellent natural skin care products that are extremely effective for all skin types and which will not create problems with allergies or skin irritation.
Notice that I did say “if you choose wisely”. After you’ve been looking for a while, if you examine the products carefully, you will see that many products which are described on the label as natural skin care products contain many of the same chemical ingredients that the big brands do. The government doesn’t regulate what can be put into anti aging products and it doesn’t regulate the claims that can be made on the label, so anything goes.
The best all natural skin care products offer you an opportunity for excellent skin care without risking your health or your skin. They are highly effective and they need to be, because the best ones come with a money back guarantee to ensure that all customers are able to try the products risk free to establish for themselves how well they work.
So if you’re gradually becoming aware about the problems of chemical ingredients in mainstream anti aging skin care products you can be comforted in the knowledge that there are excellent all natural skin care products available that really do work well and do not subject you to the chemical risks.
Visit my website to find out more.
Want to learn more about the best All Natural Skincare or to find the best All Natural Skincare Products? Visit Peter’s Website Natural Health-Natural Skin Care.
Originally posted 2009-11-28 05:18:19. Republished by Old Post Promoter
Ms America Tells Us To Use Natural Skin Products And To Avoid Mainstream Skin Care Products.
Posted by Peter Albertonach in skin care on September 26, 2011
You may have heard of Susan Jeske. In 1997 Susan was crowned Ms America, and has spent 20 years of her life working in the beauty field for a major cosmetics company as a beauty consultant. But Susan Jeske has changed and now spends her time touring America telling us about the risks in using modern cosmetics and modern skin care products. She promotes the benefits of natural skin products and natural cosmetics. Why has Susan changed?
A few years ago Susan had some severe skin and health problems. She was unable to deal with them successfully and so consulted a holistic doctor. His advice was that there was a good likelihood that her health and skin problems were caused by dangerous chemical ingredients in cosmetics and skin care products. He told her to stop using them and she did so, and within 2 weeks her skin and health problems were gone. So she spent some time researching dangerous ingredients in skin care products and cosmetics and was horrified by her discoveries.
It must have come as a shock to someone who had spent a good deal of her life promoting cosmetics and modern beauty products to discover that so many of these products were laced with chemical ingredients, many of which are banned in Europe, some of which are known to cause cancer, and some of which were causing her own health problems. But Susan spent some time researching this and was horrified by what she found.
As a result Susan Jeske left her job with the cosmetics company and now speaks around the country warning of the dangers of modern mainstream cosmetics and personal products such as skin care products and others.
Susan even put together a list of 12 toxic ingredients to look for on the label of any product that you intend to buy to put on your skin. If you see any of these ingredients don’t buy the product.
Susan is not alone. There are entire organisations set up to alert consumers of the risks of modern skin care products and cosmetics. For some time I have written about this on my website can and warn about the risks of personal products and offer consumers some alternatives to buying safe natural alternatives. The FDA isn’t required to satisfy itself about the safety of any chemical ingredients used in products and doesn’t do so, and for this reason this problem continues to get worse.
Most of these chemical ingredients are used because they are extremely cheap and by using them the companies can dramatically increase their profit margins.
There are excellent natural products such as natural skin products and natural cosmetics which are available right now which use other nonchemical natural ingredients which are highly effective and which are also perfectly safe to use. However these ingredients are more expensive than the chemical alternatives and so are not used by the mainstream big name players.
It’s perfectly possible to buy high quality natural skin care products and high quality natural cosmetics right now. Small niche companies see an opportunity in manufacturing these products and marketing them to consumers who are aware of the risks with big brand skin care and cosmetics products.
If you’d like to find out more about Susan’s speaking tour you can visit her website.
And on my website you can find out more about the chemical ingredients in modern skin care products and also find out where to get safe natural skin care products which are available right now to consumers who understand the problems inherent in mainstream skin care products.
Want to learn more about Natural Skin Care? Or to find the worlds best (and safest) Natural Skincare Products? Visit Peter’s Website Natural Health-Natural Skin Care.
Originally posted 2009-12-12 00:05:58. Republished by Old Post Promoter
What Is Natural Skincare? Why Is It Different To Regular Skincare?
Posted by Peter Albertonach in skin care on July 29, 2011
We all know what skincare products are. They’re products that are supposed to make your wrinkles disappear, and your skin younger.
But what exactly are “natural” skincare products, and what do they do?
Skincare is all about making your skin younger and more wrinkle free, but sometimes it the products don’t work.
But they do aim to improve the look and feel of your skin, that’s why you’re supposed to buy them.
But though big brand skincare products may or may not work they have another more sinister problem. They can contain dangerous ingredients that could damage your skin or your health.
This isn’t just a problem of mainstream skincare lines, it’s also a problem of many cosmetics too. I’ll give you one fast example. It’s only one example, but there’s many more, and there are entire organizations set up to combat this problem.
Lead isn’t good to have in your system, but a recent study found lead in over 50% of lipsticks tested. Big brand names. See the problem?
And it’s not confined to skincare lines and cosmetics, many personal and beauty products are the same.
How can this be? Surely our government protects us from this? No. The FDA isnt required to test the safety of these products, or how well they work. So these companies can use them, usually because they’re cheaper than the natural alternative.
Now that this is becoming more well known there are more people turning to safer more natural alternatives. But what exactly is natural skincare?
There is no definition of what “natural” skincare products are. What they are supposed to be is products that are safer to use, (and hopefully work well too). But some of these products can contain unsafe ingredients too.
Big problem. We now know that the big name skincare products can contain dangerous ingredients, and some natural skincare products can too. So how do we locate products that are safe to use and work well?
There is a process that you can go through to find the best and safest natural skincare line. I walk you through it on my website. The best news though is that there is a natural skincare line that is both safe to use and also works extremely well, better than the big brands.
And the company that makes these products is extremely proud of how good they are, proud enough to offer you a money back guarantee on them.
Something exceptionally rare in the skincare industry.
There’s skincare companies that would go broke doing that, so that says a lot about their products.
I tell you on my website which natural skincare products are safe and effective and money back guaranteed.
Want to find out more about Natural Skincare, or find the safest and best Natural Skincare Company? Visit Peter’s Website Natural Health-Natural Skin Care.
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Originally posted 2010-04-02 23:43:20. Republished by Old Post Promoter
Why Is Natural Shea Butter So Good For Your Skin?
Posted by Peter Albertonach in skin care on May 30, 2011
There are good reasons to use natural skin care products. The most important reason is that they use ingredients that occur naturally and are safe to use. Some naturally occurring ingredients are not safe to use.
Natural Shea Butter is both naturally occurring and safe to use, and is an extremely effective ingredient in the best skincare products. Lets spend a little time considering what Shea Butter is and why it’s so important to use it on your skin.
It comes from the seed of the fruit of the Shea tree which is found in Africa. The fruit, or nut, is picked and the seed extracted and then the seed is pressed to extract the natural oils, or fats, from it.
The resultant product is shea butter and it is in fact the extracted oils, or fats, of the Shea nut.
So why is Shea Butter so good for your skin? It is a superb moisturizer because the oil is virtually identical to the oil produced by the skin itself in the sebaceous glands. So Shea oil is like using your skin’s own moisturizer.
It helps reduce skin inflammation and it softens the skin and also helps reduce various skin conditions like age spots, or brown spots, scarring and blemishes as well as stretch marks and wrinkles.
It is very effective at reducing wrinkles.
It is absorbed completely by the skin and leaves no residue. And various studies have shown that there are visible improvements to the skin within 4 to 6 weeks.
The best Natural Shea Butter is cold pressed, just like the best olive oil is cold pressed, for the same reasons. It produces the real natural oil, free from any chemical additive that is added to the product during chemical extraction.
And it’s used only in the worlds very best natural skin care line. And if you use this line you get a money back guarantee so that you can even try the products, and see how well Shea Butter really works for your skin, risk free.
So I hope now you know why Natural Shea Butter is so good for your skin.
You can find out on my website which natural skincare products use Shea Butter and also offer a money back guarantee.
Want to know more about Natural Shea Butter and about Best Natural Skin Care Products? Visit Peter’s Website Natural Health-Natural Skin Care.
Originally posted 2010-03-30 00:49:57. Republished by Old Post Promoter
How Do You Buy Natural Skin Care Products?
Posted by Peter Albertonich in skin care on April 27, 2011
So you’ve found out that some skin care products can contain dangerous ingredients so you’re looking to buy natural skin care products instead.
Or maybe you’ve found out that natural skin care products work better than the big brands, so you’ve decided to buy natural skincare products instead.
Whichever reason it is, or maybe both, there are some home truths you need to know before buying natural skin care products.
But sadly, if it’s news to you it’s true, many big brand name skin care products can contain very suspect ingredients that may be bad for your health or your skin. And that’s cosmetics and many personal and beauty products as well.
Here’s a quick example, though there’s many. A recent study of big brand lipsticks found lead in over 50% of them. Scary?
So as a result there are many women who are looking to buy natural skin care products, cosmetics and more to find products that are safe to use.
But is this really a good idea? You see there is no real definition of what “natural” means for skin care products or cosmetics.
And as well the FDA isn’t required to test for any nasty ingredients in these products so it doesn’t. That’s why the problem with unsafe ingredients exists in the first place.
There are so called natural products that have been found containing 1,4-dioxane, a byproduct of a petrochemical process, suspected as carcinogenic.
So now you know that does that change your mind? It needn’t, there are ways to buy natural skin care products that are safe and effective.
Firstly buy only from a supplier that has signed the Compact For Safe Cosmetics evidencing their commitment to use only safe ingredients.
Secondly you can search individual products at the Cosmetic Safety Database to see if they are considered to have dangerous ingredients.
If you do both of these then you’re started along the path to finding safe products.
So, next problem if you’re looking to buy natural skin care products. How do you know they work well?
Without trying them there really is no way to know for sure. The best way is to try them. And if you try skin care products and they don’t work for you you need to be able to get your money back, or you’ve wasted your money.
You’re in luck. There is one company that has signed the compact, their products don’t contain dangerous ingredients and they have a publicly stated commitment to both products safety and efficacy, both by signing the compact and on their website. And they offer a full money back guarantee.
So if you’ve decided to buy natural skin care products then by all means do so, there are safe and very effective natural and organic skin care products around. But not all are safe, and not all are effective.
So yes there is one company that makes skin care products with only known safe ingredients that work well and are guaranteed. You can find out who it is on my website.
Want to find the best natural skin care products so you can Buy Natural Skin Care products that are safe and effective? Visit Peter’s Website Natural Health-Natural Skin Care.
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Originally posted 2010-03-26 03:09:39. Republished by Old Post Promoter
Finding A Natural Skin Moisturizer Isn’t Easy.
Posted by Peter Albertonach in skin care on February 28, 2011
Slowly world wide people are turning towards natural products, and the skin care and anti aging industries are no exception. People are turning away from chemical products and so there are many consumers looking for a natural skin moisturizer along with many other natural anti aging products.
There really are natural skin moisturizers, quite a few of them actually, and if you could find them all and use them you could make quite a difference to your skin. But finding them won’t be easy, and you could well find that it’s cheaper to use a natural skin care product that includes these natural skin moisturizers.
Chances are you’ve never heard of them but here’s a list of some natural skin moisturizers.
1. Shea butter. What is shea butter? It comes from the seed of the shea tree, and has many properties that are good for your skin, including natural moisturizing. It is high in vitamins A and E, both good for your skin, and also some essential fatty acids that are extremely good skin moisturizers. These ingredients are virtually identical to the moisturizers produced by your own skin in the sebaceous glands.
And as well as moisturizing shea butter softens skin too, making you look younger.
2. Phytessence Wakame. This is a seaweed from Japan and is eaten by the Japanese. Science has discovered that phytessence wakame is very good for the skin, something Japanese women have known for years. The Japanese have the worlds best skin right into old age.
Phytessence Wakame has very good natural moisturizing properties and also all sorts of other minerals and vitamins that are known to be good for the skin.
3. Sorbitol, found in grapes and berries, plums, pears, seaweed and algea is a fine moisturizer, helping the skin retain moisture and also smoothing the skin.
4. Capuacu oil. Capuacu oil comes from the seed of the capuacu tree and helps moisturize by regulating the effects of lipids on the surface of your skin helping protect skin moisture.
5. Cynergy tk comes from the wool of sheep and has a wide range of ingredients that are good for skin health and also helps protect the skin from moisture loss.
And an essential part of skin moisturizing is conserving skin moisture.
So there you have 5 natural skin moisturizers. And you can use them to make huge improvements to your skin health. That’s provided you happen to have a capuacu tree and a shea tree in your yard, live close to a beach with the right seaweed and happen to have a pet sheep.
But of course that really isn’t practical, for most women it’s far better to buy the best natural skin care products you can get that contain all these ingredients, in one product.
These products are extensively tested and have been shown to have a visible effect on the skin in a relatively short time. They moisturize successfully and improve overall skin health as well. It’s way cheaper than buying a sheep. Feeding a sheep is expensive.
You’ll find out on my website where to source the worlds best skin care products that contain these 5 natural skin moisturizers, and more.
Find the best Natural Skin Care Products. Visit Peter’s Website Natural Health-Natural Skin Care. And find out about Natural Skin Moisturizers?
Originally posted 2009-12-23 03:26:36. Republished by Old Post Promoter
What Exactly Are Organic Skin Care Products? Don’t Know?
Posted by Peter Clark in skin care on January 17, 2011
There are many searching for organic skin care products. But what are organic skin care products?
What is the safest organic moisturizer? What is organic skin care? Where do you find the best organic skin care products?
Every day women worldwide search words like these in their favorite search engine, and there is a growing interest in organic skin care.
But what is it? There is no easy to find out exactly what organic skin care really is, and there is no definition.
What does organic mean? Search the dictionary and youll find something like this:
characteristic of, pertaining to, or derived from living organisms.
So they came from something living.
So that may help, a little.
Perhaps organic skin care products have ingredients that come from farms that are “certified organic”? But what if the ingredients come from farms in other countries? What does “certified organic” mean in other countries?
What about ingredients that don’t come from farms? A certain Japanese seaweed that is used only in the best skin care products comes from the sea? That isn’t certified organic is it?
But surely anything that comes from the sea is clean? No sadly there are many contaminants in the sea in certain places.
So you might be seeing the problem here. If you’re searching for an “organic moisturizer” for example, you really don’t know what it is.
Confusing isn’t it? The same applies to natural skin care products.
So lets think laterally. What is someone who is searching for “organic skin care products’ really looking for?
What she wants is a product that is safe to use and works well. Because sadly consumers are learning that many big name skin care products and cosmetics and much more contain ingredients that may be dangerous to your health and your skin. Like lead, and mercury.
And even skin care products labeled organic or natural can have suspect ingredients too.
It’s true. And that’s why so many women worldwide are now looking for more natural or organic skin care lines and cosmetics. But even this doesn’t guarantee safety.
Knowing what women are searching for is useful.
Instead of finding organic skin care products how do we find products that are safe to use and effective?
The first place to start is with the cosmetic safety database. Here you can search any of the ingredients in any products to see if they have any risk factor to health.
And the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics also has a compact that any company can sign that evidences their intent to use only ingredients known to be safe in their products. And if you look you’ll see that the big name companies haven’t signed.
So if you are considering cosmetics or skin care products from a company that hasn’t signed then don’t buy.
So that’s 2 positive things you can do to find safe products. Search the ingredients, and search the company. I tell you where to do these searches at my website.
But how do you know if they work? It’s quite possible that safe products don’t work well.
I believe that the best way to see if products work is to try them yourself. But if you do that you may waste some money on products that don’t work.
But luckily the company that makes what I consider to be the best skin care products in the world offers a 90 day money back guarantee, so you can try their products risk free.
Their products are world class, and so it’s not a coincidence that they offer you a guarantee or they’d go broke giving everyone’s money back.
There’s a 2 step method of finding skin care products that are both safe, and effective.
And if you want to know more about finding the websites where you can do these searches visit my website, where you can also find out what natural skin care products come with a 90 day money back guarantee.
Want to know more about searching for the best Safest Organic Skin Care Products? And about the Organic Skin Care Products? that come with a money back guarantee?
Originally posted 2010-03-29 01:26:15. Republished by Old Post Promoter
Are The Best Anti Aging Products Necessarily Safe?
Posted by Peter Geraldson in skin care on March 26, 2010
If you’re a woman starting to experience the signs and symptoms of skin ageing you may have spent quite some time searching for the best anti aging products on the market.
You’ve probably seen all those convincing television advertisements and read the glossy magazine ads and you’re convinced that those anti aging creams just have to work well.
But if that describes you and you’re searching for the best anti aging products you need to ask yourself a preliminary question before deciding if the products work well. You need to ask yourself whether those anti aging skin care products are safe to use.
The reason is that there is a massive range of chemical ingredients that are found in in almost all of the big name skin care products you might even be using right now. Oof those ingredients is named Propylene Glycol and it’s Propylene Glycol that I would like to tell you about today.
You might even have some Propylene Glycol in your cars radiator right now because it’s an essential ingredient in antifreeze. And the EPA tells us that anyone who works with Propylene Glycol needs to don protective gloves as well as goggles in case the Propylene Glycol comes in contact with their skin.
And yet, according to the Cosmetic Safety Database, Propylene Glycol is found in 945 anti aging moisturizers, 1118 facial treatments and 690 general anti aging products as well as a wide range of other personal and bath products as well as cosmetics.
And the Cosmetic Safety Database links Propylene Glycol to cancer, developmental and reproductive toxicity, allergies and immunotoxicity, irritation to the skin and a whole host of other nasty health repercussions.
Whether the glossy advertising tells you they’re the best anti aging products in the world you should be avoiding it if it has Propylene Glycol as an ingredient, and that applies also to a wide range of other chemical ingredients found in so many skin care products.
The FDA does not have to satisfy itself that any ingredients used in anti aging products are safe for people to apply to their skin. The manufacturers use these chemical ingredients because they are cheap and because they can.
So, you’re a woman who is starting to notice all of those irritating signs of skin ageing such as skin wrinkles and sagging. Do you swear off all anti aging products and just except your fate, and your wrinkles? No you don’t.
The well-known big name skin care lines may be contaminated with chemical ingredients but there is still very small niche anti aging companies seeking to produce the highest quality anti aging products that use safe ingredients.
One company especially makes the highest quality and what I consider to be the best anti aging products on the market. All natural ingredients are used in the products and these ingredients are known to be safe and very effective at skin care. But these all natural ingredients are extremely expensive.
So it would be fair to assume that the anti aging products made by this company must also be very expensive, but in fact they’re not. That’s because this company chooses not to spend lots of money on television or magazine advertising and so does not need to factor advertising and marketing into the price of the products, and this is invariably the major cost of any line of skin care products. Therefore their anti aging products are in fact very price competitive.
The good news is that the best anti aging products are made by a company you’ve probably never heard of. But when you do you’ll be amazed at how good (and how safe) these products are.
If you’d like to find out who makes these excellent (and safe) anti aging skin care products visit my website.
Visit Restore My Skin to find out more about Anti Aging Skin Care or more about the Best Anti Aging Product on the market.
Originally posted 2009-11-26 03:08:06. Republished by Old Post Promoter
All Natural Skin Care Ingredients. Do They Matter?
Posted by Peter Albertonach in skin care on March 20, 2010
The ingredients of natural skin care products don’t matter as long as they work. Is that right? Are natural skin care ingredients irrelevant as long as the products work? Lets have a look at this as I saw that exact comment recently on a skincare website.
I dont care whats in it as long as it works.
So first lets talk about why so many consumers are now turning to natural skincare products. There seem to be 2 reasons.
1. Bit by bit there is a growing realization that there are some fantastic naturally occurring substances that really are very good for your skin.
Theres now no doubt about that. In the past I have talked about Phytessence Wakame for example. This is a seaweed found in Japan that has extraordinary properties that are excellent for skin health, and this is one of the major reasons why Japanese women have such good skin. They eat the important ingredient.
Or perhaps Shea Butter, the oil from the nut of the African Shea tree, one of the best moisturizers around. And theres many many more examples of natural skin care ingredients that are as effective, and in many cases better, than the ingredients used in mainstream big brand skin care products.
2. And more and more consumers are also finding out that there can be dangerous ingredients in big brand skin care products. Often because the more natural alternative is way more expensive than a chemical alternative.
I have also written extensively about the dangerous ingredients that can be found in skin care products and cosmetics, (and some so called natural skin care products too).
So there are what I consider the 2 major reasons why people are turning to more natural alternatives. So it would seem that natural skin care ingredients do matter.
The consumer wants ingredients that are safe to use and work well. This movement towards all natural alternatives is driven by what is in the products. The ingredients are what concern people.
We demand safe and effective products.
Do all natural skin care products contain only safe and effective ingredients? No sadly.
The good news though is that there are some excellent, safe and effective natural skin care products around.
The best are made by a company that is a signatory to the Compact For Safe Cosmetics, and most importantly all the ingredients are listed clearly on their website so you can check what’s in the products.
That is pretty persuasive. Find out who they are on my website.
Want to fiind the best Natural Skin Care Products? Or learn more about natural skin care ingredients? Visit Peter’s Website Natural Health-Natural Skin Care.
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How Do You Find The Best All Natural Skin Care Products?
Posted by Peter Albertonach in skin care on March 13, 2010
Worldwide there is a groundswell of women looking to find more natural skin care products. Millions of women are now searching out the best all natural skin care products, and for good reason.
Gradually consumers are realizing that our skin care products and cosmetics as well as many other personal products can contain harmful ingredients.
A quick example, a recent study found lead in over 50% of big brand lipsticks tested.
And whilst its good to look better or have better skin or use a nice smelling soap or deodorant or other personal product its not as important as guarding your health. After all, who wants lead in their system?
And big name manufacturers are now recognizing this and trying to get a foothold in the natural products market.
Its no coincidence that L’Oreal has recently bought The Body Shop, a huge seller of all natural personal products.
Back to looking at skin care products. What does “natural” or “all natural” mean for skin care products or cosmetics? No one really knows, there’s no formal definition.
It’s not known what natural formally means, and for this reason there are companies out there marketing “natural” products containing chemicals that most would not consider “natural”.
So if there are still “natural” products out there that we should avoid how do we find the best all natural skin care products?
If you’re looking for a “natural” product it’s pretty sure you’re looking for a product what works well and is SAFE.
So we can, once we know this, use this information to our advantage.
So how do we use this? We find the website for the Cosmetics Safety Database. Here you can search various ingredients used in products and find a rating of their potential health risks.
So you can look at any product and search the ingredients to see if they are considered unsafe to health. You could search “parabens” for example, (a popular chemical preservative) and see what risks parabens pose.
The find the website for the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics. The have a compact that any company can sign. This pledges that company to using only known safe ingredients in their products. And you can search this compact to see which companies have signed it, and which haven’t. You won’t find the big names there.
And if you find a company that has signed the compact you know they have pledged themselves to making safe products.
So you’ve found a natural skincare company that has signed. So their products should be safe. But are they any good? Well as far as I’m concerned the company that offers a money back guarantee should have great products. Most don’t.
One company has both signed the compact and offer a full money back guarantee. And it’s that company that makes the best all natural skin care products.
Head over to my website to find out which company.
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Need Some Healthy Skin Tips?
Posted by Peter Albertonach in skin care on March 12, 2010
Here’s 3 healthy skin tips. Because although there are so many women out there looking for great skin care products, what they are in fact looking for is healthy looking skin.
Healthy skin is the skin you really want. It’s younger looking, it looks and feels great. It resists lines and wrinkles and age spots way more than unhealthy skin.
You just feel great about your looks, and yourself, when your skin glows with health.
So many women think of getting great looking skin without making the link between how her skin looks, and how healthy her skin is. You cant have great looking skin that is unhealthy.
As promised, here’s 3 healthy skin tips.
1. You can’t have healthy skin if you’re unhealthy.
It may sound a little trite but if you’re healthy your skin will be more healthy too. If you’re unhealthy this will show in your skin.
You know what you have to do. It all affects your skin.
Good diet is important for skin health. Drinking sufficient water is important for your skin.
And it may sound a little silly but more exercise translates to better skin. Why? Because exercise improves blood circulation and your skin relies on good blood circulation.
2. Avoid 2 of the worst things you can ever do for your skin.
What are they? Smoking and sunburn, both just terrible for good skin. It’s really hard to have great looking skin if it’s regularly sunburned and you smoke.
3. Source the right vitamins for healthy skin and make sure you’re getting them.
There’s plenty of nutrients important for great skin health, and I won’t list them all here. One to mention though is omega 3 oils. You probably know about omega 3 already, but didn’t realize that it’s great for skin health too.
Although it’s difficult to get all the nutrients that are important for healthy skin there is a way to do it.
Use the best all natural skin care products.
So why would you need to be using great all natural skin care products? Because many mainstream skin care products can actually contain ingredients that may damage your skin believe it or not.
Science knows about a wide range of nutrients that are essential to great skin health, and the best natural skin care products contain these nutrients.
And the very best natural skin care products don’t contain any ingredients that may damage your health or your skin.
There’s is no magic formula to having great looking healthy skin. Follow these simple rules and you’ll have great looking skin right into old age, and you’ll feel great and look great.
If you do all the right things for your skin and stay healthy yourself the results will be visible in your skin.
Want to find some more Healthy Skin Tips? Visit Peter’s website all about All Natural Skin Care Products to find out more about great skin care.
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Can You Reverse (And Prevent) Sun Damage To Your Skin Causing Premature Skin Ageing?
Posted by Peter Clark in skin care on March 1, 2010
There’s nothing you can do about aging, and as you age your skin ages with you. One of the worst causes of skin ageing is excessive sun damage from overexposure to UV in the Sun’s rays. Can you help prevent and even reverse skin sun damage?
Too much time spent in the sun is terrible for your skin. Whether you get sunburned or even if you just spend a lot of time in the sun you can age your skin prematurely. Along with another factor, namely smoking, these are the 2 worst things you can do to ensure your skin will show your age earlier.
It is well known that UV rays in sun light can be very damaging to your skin. Of course excessive sun exposure can lead to skin cancer and this can in turn can lead to death, however not so many people are aware that excessive sun exposure also speeds up the effects of ageing on your skin. This is what is known as photo aging.
There’s some simple things you can do to prevent excessive skin sun damage. It’s easy to reduce your exposure to the sun by wearing a long sleeved shirt and a hat and staying out of direct sun during the summer in the middle of the day. But none of these is a complete solution to skin sun damage. For example it’s still entirely possible to get your face burned underneath a hat from reflection off water.
Next comes sunscreens. Whilst sunscreens can be useful many do not provide complete protection from the different range of ultraviolet rays in sun light, particularly UVA, and it is still possible to get serious sun damage to your skin even using sunscreens.
There are natural sunscreens available. Many of these are sourced from plants and will help naturally protect your skin from burning by acting as a natural sunscreen. However these can not only protect your skin from UV rays but, according to recent research, actually help reverse some photo-aging effects.
Lycopene is one of these ingredients. If you read the health literature you may well know about lycopene. It’s an ingredient of tomatoes and the studies are showing that lycopene can have some beneficial effects on your health. For example there is growing evidence that increasing your intake of lycopene can help prevent breast cancer in women and prostate cancer in men. On top of this there is now evidence that more lycopene can help reverse the effects of photo-aging on your skin and therefore help reverse skin sun damage you may have suffered in earlier years.
And it’s not just lycopene that offers these benefits to your skin. There are other natural ingredients from plants that are also, according to the studies, likely to offer similar benefits. Whilst it is probably inadequate to rely on natural sunscreens to prevent sunburn on their own, there is certainly evidence that they will increase your level of natural protection and also start to reverse the effects of photo-aging.
Gradually modern science is understanding how photo-aging works and why photo-aging is one of the most serious, if not the most serious contributor to premature skin ageing. And modern science is also now able to produce new products that are able to capture the benefits provided by these natural sunscreens.
An example is a new omega 3 supplement recently introduced to the market which includes lycopene as an active ingredient as well as other ingredients to increase your skin’s natural resistance to sunburn and to help reverse the effects of photo-aging. And of course omega 3 essential fatty acids are themselves known to be of a very similar chemical make up to the oil that is naturally produced in your skin and for this reason Omega3 fats are also very good to improved skin health.
If you’re interested in high quality skin care you need to understand the damaging effects of excessive exposure to sunlight, and that there are ways to help prevent this and also to reverse the effects of skin sun damage.
And you also should be aware that new products are slowly becoming available as science finds out more and more about how to keep their skin healthy and looking good using natural ingredients such as lycopene to help prevent skin sun damage.
If you’d like to source omega 3 supplements which now include lycopene as one of the active ingredients then head over to my website.
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Lifestyle Revolution with Wellness Formulations
Posted by Anti Aging Products in skin care products on February 25, 2010
We all know that one of the keys to maintaining a healthy appearance is the skin. Women resort to all types of measures to keep a youthful glow and clearness to their skin, including concealers, serums, moisturizers and other skin care products. Recent clinical studies conducted by Wellness Formulations substantiate that you dont have to be a slave to a complicated skin care regimen. Enter Skin Care as part of a Lifestyle Revolution!
What In The World Is Functional Keratin In Skin Care?
Posted by Peter Clark in skin care on February 8, 2010
If you’ve spent any time reading about skin health and skin care you’ll start reading about keratin pretty soon. What is it?
You can find keratin in many parts of our bodies. It is a very strong protein that can be found in parts of our bodies like our hair and nails, and our skin.
It is produced in the epidermis of our skin by cells called keratinocytes, and these keratin cells slowly come to the surface of our skin where they form a protective layer of dead skin cells on the surface, and slowly slough off over time.
Keratin has some vital roles in maintaining the function of our skin. It produces some waterproofing qualities, for example. But the main function of keratin in our skin is to promote skin strength and elasticity.
Our skin needs these qualities and as it ages it starts to lose some keratin and so lose some strength and elasticity.
So you would assume that it’s good to use skin care products that contain keratin, but that’s wrong.
The reason is that the process used to produce the keratin found in mainstream skin care products is a process using heat and acid, and this “denaturalizes” the keratin into a form that is of no use to the skin.
So what is functional keratin? This is keratin that is extracted from the wool of sheep without using heat or acid, and so it is not denaturalized. It is functional in the sense that it is still in a form that is available for the skin to use.
It is only recently that this process has been perfected by one small company that makes it and has patented it. It is put into a product called Cynergy TK that is used only in the worlds very best skincare products.
Studies on the results that use of Cynergy TK can produce have been impressive with visible results within a short time, a reduction in wrinkles and fine lines and an improvement in the complexion.
Cynergy TK is expensive, and so the big brand name skin care products don’t use it. But it is possible to get skin care products that contain Cynergy TK, and they aren’t more expensive than other skin care products. Why? Because the big brands spend their budget on advertising, whereas the small niche company spends it’s budget on product quality.
The price of big brand skincare products has to reflect the cost of the advertising.
So there’s some background on the role of keratin in the skin. And about what functional keratin is if you were wondering.
Visit my website to find out more or to find the worlds best skin care products that contain Cynergy TK.
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4 Tips To Beautiful Skin.
Posted by Peter Albertonach in skin care on February 8, 2010
So many women lust after beautiful skin. I’ll bet if you gave 3 wishes to women, particularly older women, somewhere on their list of wishes would be beautiful skin, right into their older age.
Why is beautiful skin so important to women? Because beauty is important to women, and the skin is what shows their beauty off to the world. Great looking clear skin is the basis of looking good.
You can’t look beautiful if your skin looks terrible.
My job today is to give you 4 tips that, as long as you follow them, will lead to beautiful clear skin, into old age. Here’s 4 beautiful skin tips for you.
1. Start early.
So many women don’t get around to taking care of their skin until well into their 40s or even 50s. If you really want to take the best care of your skin you need to start as early as you can, preferably while your skin is still looking great.
Why is it good to start in your 20s when your skin still looks great? Because that’s the time when the deterioration of your skin health starts.
Now of course that’s not to say that if you’re in your 40s, say, its too late. But if you’re in your 20s and you start on a great skin care routine you’re way better placed to achieving great looking skin. Early is better.
2. Stay healthy.
Overall health is one of the most important factors in great skin health. A healthy body makes for a healthy skin.
It my sound entirely obvious that if you stay healthy your skin stays healthy, but it’s something that, despite being obvious, so many women don’t think of. You need to do all the things you already know about staying healthy.
So all those things you read about your diet are important, like reducing salt and sugar intake, and eating lots of fresh vegetables and fruit for lots of anti oxidants. This is good for skin health and overall health. And it leads to a healthier heart which is also good for skin health.
And of course lots of exercise is also important for skin health too.
The bottom line is this. You cant have great looking glowing healthy skin if you’re overweight and live on a diet of pizzas and burgers, never exercise and a walk to the fridge gets you puffing. Take care of yourself and your body will take care of your skin.
3. There’s 2 things that are terrible for your skin. Avoid them.
What are the 2 worst things you can do for your skin? Smoking and sunburn. Both are just terrible for skin health, and you’re unlikely to have great looking beautiful skin if you smoke 40 a day and get burned every weekend. You must avoid these.
4. Use the worlds best skin care products.
Yes you may have read that skin care products don’t really work, and in many cases this is true. Most of the big brand name skin care products found in the stores are overpriced, and do only limited good to your skin. But modern science really does know what makes skin healthy and beautiful, and there are many excellent natural skin care products that contain naturally occurring ingredients that really are known to be highly beneficial to your skin.
Avoid the big name skin care products which use mainly chemical ingredients that are cheap to manufacture and often not good for your skin.
So there’s my 4 beautiful skin tips. Follow these and you’ll have great looking clear skin into your older age.
It’s never too late to start, though early is always better, and even in your 40s and 50s if you do these things and take care of your body, and combine this with the use of the best skin care products you’ll notice the difference at any age.
And along the way you’ll get fitter and healthier and look great. There you have the secret to beautiful skin.
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What You Should Look for (and What You Shouldn’t Find) in the Best Moisturizer.
Posted by Peter Albertonach in skin care on November 25, 2009
Can your moisturizer be dangerous? What a silly question. Moisturizers are intended to benefit our skin aren’t they. How could a moisturizer possibly be dangerous?
There are many chemical and petrochemical ingredients found in moisturizers, as well as a wide range of other personal products such as cosmetics, bath and beauty products. Examples include mineral oil, an extremely common petrochemical derivative and sodium lauryl sulphate.
Many of these ingredients are manufactured in laboratories and they are used in personal products and skin care products such as moisturizers because they are particularly cheap. Mineral oil, for example, is cheaper to buy than to dispose of.
There is an organisation called the Environmental Working Group which maintains a database of ingredients used in these sorts of products. This is called the Cosmetic Safety Database and provides information on the massive range of chemical ingredients used in so many of our personal products, including moisturizers.
If you go to the Cosmetic Safety Database and search sodium lauryl sulphate you’ll find that it is listed as being linked to neurotoxicity, organ system toxicity, developmental and reproductive toxicity, cancer, irritation to the skin and plenty more. The same will apply if you search for mineral oil.
These results are backed up by scientific studies. For example a recent study that you can read in the Journal Of Investigative Dermatology was called “Tumorigenic Effect of Some Commonly Used Moisturizing Creams when Applied Topically to UVB-Pretreated High-Risk Mice”. Researchers in this study found that if they applied a moisturizer containing sodium lauryl sulphate and mineral oil to mice 5 times a day for 17 weeks this “increased significantly the rate of formation of tumors and the rate of increase in tumor size per mouse”.
Interestingly, after the results of the study were established, (which were a surprise because the study was actually to see if caffeine produced skin cancer in mice), the researchers requested that the manufacturer of the moisturizer tested manufacture a further moisturizer without mineral oil or sodium lauryl sulphate in it. This was also tested and the results showed no effect on tumor formation or growth in the mice.
When searching at the Cosmetic Safety Database you can search any of the chemical or petrochemical ingredients that are so commonly found in modern skin care and anti aging moisturizers, and you will see studies such as this one listed in the search results for you to read.
Perhaps it never came to your attention that your moisturizer could be dangerous and that you are risking cancer amongst other things by using so many of the big name brand moisturizers and other skin care products.
So perhaps you should decide that it’s dangerous to use these products and you should swear off anti aging skin care products forever. However this is unnecessary. There are good alternatives.
There are small niche companies which recognize the problem with mainstream chemical laden anti aging skin care products and see this as an opportunity to manufacture safe and effective skin care products containing none of the chemical ingredients that are commonly found in mainstream skin care products such as moisturizers.
Of course it is extremely difficult for a small niche skin care company to compete with massive multinational companies in the skin care market, where billions of dollars are at stake. However these companies, one in particular, manufacture high quality skin care lines that are extremely effective and are comprised only of known safe and natural ingredients such as the oils from fruits and nuts. The big name companies don’t use these ingredients because they are more expensive than the chemical alternatives.
It may take longer to find but if you manage to track down some of these natural skin care products, one range in particular, and try them you will be very pleasantly surprised at the results you get. Firstly you won’t be risking your health because they use only known safe ingredients and secondly you will find that the products are extremely effective. But it can sometimes be difficult to find these products because the small niche companies that manufacture them cannot compete with the big brands on television advertising and so do not advertise on television at all.
So although you may be surprised to hear the bad news that so many modern skin care products such as moisturizers contain dangerous ingredients you will also it pleased to hear the good news that there are natural skin care products available which are highly effective and contain only safe ingredients.
I write a website where I seek to expose these issues to my readers and to demonstrate to them that there are safer, more natural and more effective alternatives available. To find these natural anti aging products that produce the results you want without the risks visit my website.
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