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Natural Skin Care Creams. Why Should You Use Them?

By: Peter Albertonach

Natural skin care creams. Are there good reasons to consider using a natural skin care cream, and what exactly does "natural" mean anyway?

Lets consider that last question. What is natural skin care? Sadly although there are many many products on the skin care market that are labeled as natural there is no formal definition of what it is.

Is there any difference, for example, between natural skin care products and other skin care products labeled as botanical, or organic, or herbal?

But whilst there is no single one definition of what natural means in this context that doesn't mean that it is meaningless. It just means that there isn't a single definition.

In this case I tend to apply my own definition. To do this you need to consider the reasons why there is any need for a natural skin care product. After all why shouldn't people just buy ordinary non natural skin care products?

There's a simple answer. Most of the big name skin care products that you see on the shelves have one or more, often many, synthetic chemicals that some scientist somewhere has found performs a function. Some of them are found no where in nature.

And often these synthetic chemicals are very cheap to make.

Parabens is an example. These are a range of chemicals that are used in many products, not just skin care products, as preservatives. Why? Because they are very cheap to manufacture. But there's a problem with finding Parabens in your products. Many consider that they are dangerous if used extensively and could cause cancer. But they're cheap.

In fact there are a lot of chemical (and petrochemical) ingredients in many skin care products that are considered suspect or even dangerous. That's why there is a big and growing market for natural skin care products.

It's surprising just how many people are now turning to more "natural" or "organic" or "herbal" or "botanical" skin care products because they are scared of potential risks from use of products with strange chemical ingredients.

So from this information I can make my own definition. I consider a natural skin care product to be one which only uses ingredients that are found naturally somewhere and also which are known to be safe for human use. And there's another part to the definition.

The product has to work really well too, there's no point in buying a skin care product comprised of natural ingredients that doesn't do anything, (despite the fact that many mainstream products often do very little).

It's surprising but the best natural skin care products often work way better than the mainstream products.

So as you can see there is no formal definition of what a natural skin care cream is. But that doesn't mean that there is no reason to use one. There are in fact powerful reasons to use one.

The best are safer to use than mainstream products. The very best are both safer to use and work better than mainstream products.

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